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14.12.2021

Medical Informatics Initiative publishes interview film

What do patients, doctors and researchers expect from the digitalisation of medicine and data-based medical research? In the interview film of the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII), funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, they themselves have their say: Patients talk about their...

30.11.2021

SMITH Online Closed Meeting | November 2021

The final SMITH Consortium quarterly closed meeting of the year was held as a web conference on November 24th-25th. 117 participants came together online for two days to discuss the current project status and plan further steps. Key topics included the go-live of the...

22.11.2021

The Medical Informatics Consortia MIRACUM and SMITH cooperate

Networking and harmonisation of infrastructures in collaborative medical research is taking place in a very practical way. The Consortium Leaders Prof. Dr. Markus Löffler (SMITH) and Prof. Dr. Hans-Ulrich Prokosch (MIRACUM), as well as representatives of the Trust Center of the Greifswald University Medical School...

09.11.2021

Call for Papers – Special Issue “Data Science for Medical Informatics”.

Medical data are generated with different objectives in studies, registries, research projects and in health care. Their utilization and exchange to answer different questions will change health care and medical research. Despite the wide range of analysis methods, there are some aspects that still stand...

21.09.2021

New Junior Research Group in the field of Medical Informatics at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf starts work

At the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, a new Junior Research Group on the secondary use of health data was created at the beginning of September. Under the leadership of Dr. Sylvia Nürnberg, three young scientists will focus on improving research opportunities and patient care through...

Eine Gruppe interessierter Ärzte auf einem Seminar im Hörsaal

16.09.2021

Interprofessional Master’s Program in Medical Data Science at RWTH Aachen enters second round

On September 14, 2021, the part-time master's program in Medical Data Science (M.Sc.) started for the second time at RWTH Aachen University under the scientific direction of Prof.Dr. Rainer Röhrig, Director of the Institute for Medical Informatics. While students from the first cohort are...

27.08.2021

New Junior Research Group headed by Dr. Alexandr Uciteli launched at the University of Leipzig

At Leipzig University, a new Junior Research Group started its work at the beginning of August. Four scientists are working on the development and application of knowledge-based software for determining and analyzing phenotypes. Phenotyping, i.e. the bundling of human characteristics, plays an important role in...

26.08.2021

SMITH Online Closed Meeting | August 2021

On August 25/26, 2021, this year's third SMITH Consortium quarterly closed meeting took place with over 100 participants. One of the main topics was the transparent participation of patients in the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), to...

30.07.2021

Digital Hub DISTANCE of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) successfully launched

Since the middle of the year, the Digital ProgressHubs Health of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research have been continuing the pioneering work of the Medical Informatics Initiative. Since July 2021, the project team of the DISTANCE ProgressHub has been working on improving preventive...

21.07.2021

Welcome to the new website of the SMITH Consortium!

The website of the medical informatics consortium SMITH has been given a new look. After intensive conception and planning, the website presents itself with new visualization and revised content. ...