Leading healthcare stakeholders have joined forces in recent weeks to form the cocos (Corona Component Standards) Initiative. The goal of the initiative is to establish uniform data formats and standards for interoperability for covid-related data and their aggregation....

Data Protection Conference of the Federal Government and the States agrees to uniform model text for consent to research with pseudonymized patient data - milestone for Germany as a research location....

"In a comparatively short time, the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) has created the essential basis for digitally integrating routine clinical data from patient care across multiple sites – for better research and more targeted treatments,” stated Sebastian C. Semler, Executive Director of TMF – Technology,...