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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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31.03.2026
Increased Risk of Falls Due to Potentially Inappropriate Medication (PIM)? What the Data from the POLAR Project Show – Part 1

The POLAR project investigated the association between polypharmacy and health risks. In this Interview, Louisa Redeker, research associate at the Department of Clinical Pharmacology at Witten/Herdecke University, discusses her subproject. She examined the relationship between potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) and the occurrence of falls in older patients....
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06.03.2026
MII Core Data Set Module “Microbiology” Implemented at the Data Integration Center Halle (Saale)

The Data Integration Center at University Medicine Halle has implemented the “Microbiology” module of the core data set of the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII). With this step, the site reaches another milestone and expands its interoperable data infrastructure to include structured microbiological findings....
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13.01.2026
A Look into the Data Integration Centers: Implementing Medical Research Projects in a Low-Threshold and Secure Way with the Aachen Data Integration Center

In the SMITH news series “A Look into the Data Integration Centers”, the Data Integration Centers established within the SMITH Consortium of the German Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) are introduced. Originally established at university medical sites, the Data Integration Centers enable secure and data protection-compliant......
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