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12.02.2020

SMITH organizes partner dialogue meeting

On Friday, February 6th, 2020, the SMITH Consortium held the first partner dialogue meeting for non-university hospitals and medical networks. In an open exchange between around 80 participants from hospitals, medical networks, associations and industrial partners, the opportunities, which result from a collaborative partnership, were...

10.01.2020

Start of part-time, postgraduate study program “eHealth & Communication (M.Sc.)” at FSU Jena

On April 1, 2020, the new part-time master's program "eHealth & Communication" will start at Friedrich Schiller University Jena. The interdisciplinary course combines medicine, computer science, public health and communication sciences, among others. ...

11.12.2019

Final development phase: warning app for early detection of acute respiratory failure

The clinical use case Algorithmic Surveillance - ASIC for short - defined by the SMITH Consortium describes a scenario that takes place primarily in intensive care units and deals with patients in whom Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) could occur due to various causes and...

10.12.2019

Master’s program in Medical Data Science to start in September 2020 at RWTH Aachen International Academy

The Medical Faculty of RWTH Aachen University with the Institute of Medical Informatics under the direction of Professor R. Röhrig, M.D., and the RWTH International Academy will offer the postgraduate, part-time and interprofessional degree program "Master of Science in Medical Data Science (M.Sc.)" starting in...

23.10.2019

The Federal Ministry of Education and Research presents the Medical Informatics Initiative at MEDICA 2019

Networking data, improving health care - that's what the Federal Government's Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) stands for. The aim of the initiative, which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), is to improve research opportunities and patient care through innovative...

25.09.2019

SMITH Congress 2019 shows progress and prospects for Medical Informatics Initiative

On September 17 and 18, 2019, the SMITH Consortium - one of four consortia of the Medical Informatics Initiative of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research - presented itself for the first time during a two-day congress in Berlin. Under the motto "New Horizons...

20.09.2019

GMA Annual Conference 2019 – Lecture on the master program “Medical Data Science”

In September 2020, the master's programme Medical Data Science will start at the RWTH International Academy in Aachen. Dr. Ulrike Schemmann (Aachen) and Prof. Cord Spreckelsen (Jena) will present this course at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Education 2019 in Frankfurt am...

27.08.2019

SMITH Jobrotation Program begins

For the exchange of research and care data between the participating university hospitals, the SMITH Consortium of the Medical Informatics Initiative is building an innovative structure for cross-institutional networking. One goal here is to strengthen interdisciplinary research. To this end, the SMITH Consortium is offering...

29.07.2019

SMITH JET Workshop on 11 September, 2019 in Dortmund

The SMITH Joint Expertise Center for Teaching (SMITH-JET) has developed from existing catalogs a BMHI learning objectives catalog as a basis for curricular development in Biomedical and Health Informatics (BMHI). The BMHI learning objectives catalog has been discussed and approved in several meetings with experts...

12.07.2019

Kick-off for the Control Phase in the Use Case ASIC

The control phase in the ASIC Use Case started on July 1, 2019. The goal of ASIC is to increase the diagnosis rate in intensive care patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), a life-threatening condition with a mortality rate of up to 40 percent....