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31.07.2025
Recovering After Intensive Care with Digital Support: Lessons from the PICOS Study

The PICOS study within the Digital Hub DISTANCE supports former intensive care patients through the PICOS App. Its aim is to gain a better understanding of PICS and to develop new therapeutic options. By the end of June, the last participant had been enrolled in the study, and data analysis will begin in the fall. Yet even now, one thing is clear: participants and researchers have gained valuable insights into the use and added value of digital solutions for post-intensive care follow-up....
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22.07.2025
Digital Follow-Up Care After the ICU: “We Learned a Lot From Patient Feedback for Our Work” | 5 Questions for … Petra Hetfeld & Dr. Caren Martin on Patient Recruitment in the DISTANCE Project

Many former intensive care patients continue to experience physical and mental health issues, such as difficulty concentrating or muscle weakness, long after their hospital stay. These symptoms are collectively referred to as “Post-Intensive Care Syndrome” (PICS) and are often associated with a reduced quality of......
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03.06.2025
A Look into the Data Integration Centers: Secure Research with the Data Integration Center Hamburg

In the new SMITH news series “A Look into the Data Integration Centers”, a Data Integration Center established within the SMITH Consortium of the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) will be presented on a monthly basis. In this part of our series, the team at the Hamburg Data Integration Center explains what it offers to researchers at its location and how the Data Integration Center plans to develop in the future....
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19.05.2025
Unlocking the Value of Clinical Texts for Research and AI | 9th GeMTeX Plenary Meeting May 13th, 2025 in Leipzig

About 25 people working on the GeMTeX project met last week at the Albertina Library of Leipzig University to discuss the current status of the annotation work and the future use of the GeMTeX text corpus. Find out exactly what was discussed in the follow-up report....
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07.05.2025
How Medical Texts Are Made Usable for AI Models | 5 Questions for… Marie-Sophie Polifka and Sarina Shams, Annotators in the GeMTeX Project

The GeMTeX project aims to create one of the largest corpora of German medical texts available. To this end, unstructured texts from clinical documentation will be made accessible for research and AI applications in compliance with data protection regulations by annotation. In this interview, medical students Marie-Sophie Polifka and Sarina Shams discuss their work as annotators in Leipzig and share how the project will benefit their future careers....
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