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10.08.2026
The Surrogator: Using Clinical Documents for Research While Protecting Patient Privacy

To strike an appropriate balance between data protection, data quality, and the scientific usability of clinical texts, the GeMTeX team has (further) developed the open-source tool “Surrogator.” In this interview, Christina Lohr explains why the tool is important for research involving clinical texts and how it works....
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01.07.2026
Advancing the Use of Clinical Texts for Research and Artificial Intelligence

From June 22 to 23, 2026, GeMTeX project staff gathered at the TUM University Hospitel rechts der Isar for an internal large language model (LLM) workshop and plenary meeting. The meeting was held to discuss the project’s current progress and prepare for the final phase of work....
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24.06.2026
Detection and Prediction of Adverse Drug Events: Results from the POLAR Project – Part 2

In the second part of our interview-series, Dr. Anna Wermund shares insights into the valuable findings for medication safety research that emerged from her subprojects within POLAR....
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13.05.2026
Standardizing Clinical Documents: The New Core Dataset Module “Document”

The computer-assisted analysis of clinical texts such as discharge letters or surgical reports is becoming increasingly important for medical research due to advances in natural language processing (NLP) and large language models (LLMs). To make these unstructured data usable across institutions, the “Document” core data......
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08.04.2026
INTERPOLAR: Comprehensive datasets on medication safety available – data analyses begin

12th INTERPOLAR Day on March 26–27, 2026 in Leipzig On March 26 and 27, project members from the INTERPOLAR project met to exchange on the next phase of the studies on medication safety. INTERPOLAR investigates how IT-supported medication analyses can assist hospital pharmacists in identifying......
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Event Dates

September 15 – 16, 2026

14th National Biobank Symposium 2026

Venue: Hotel Aquino, Berlin

September 22 – 25, 2026

Informatik Festival 2026

Venue: TU Dresden

September 23 – 25, 2026

25th German Congress for Health Services Research (DKVF 2026)

Venue: University Hospital Cologne (UKK)

Further Information

Flyer Information & Overview SMITH Consortium

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