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20.12.2022

Why Data Integration Centers are more than just technology | 5 questions for… Data Integration Center Director Dr. Irina Lutz

Medical informatics is the intersection between medicine and IT. Different professional fields overlap and complement each other. Even less obvious specialties are represented and relevant here. The Data Integration Centers of the Medical Informatics Initiative embody this intersection. The Data Integration Centers bring together routine...

14.12.2022

Development and networking of the Data Integration Centers in SMITH – A review 2022

The Data Integration Centers established in the SMITH Consortium are the new junctions of patient care and biomedical research. Data Integration Centers create the technical and organizational conditions to centrally merge medical data, harmonize formats and make them available for further use in cross-site research...

29.11.2022

SMITH hosts Science Day and Retreat at RWTH Aachen University Hospital | November 2022

More than 100 SMITH project members met on November 23 and 24, 2022 for the SMITH Science Day and the last retreat of this year. The meeting was at the same time the last project meeting in the current set-up and networking phase of the...

15.11.2022

Data stays at the site: PADME platform facilitates privacy-compliant analyses of medical data

Distributed data analysis is of great importance when analyzing large amounts of personal data. The "Platform for Analysis and Distributed Machine Learning for Enterprises" (PADME) established within the SMITH Consortium will facilitate distributed analyses with medical data in the future....

05.09.2022

SMITH Closed Meeting in Halle | August/September 2022

On August 31 and September 1, 2022, SMITH project staff met for a closed meeting for the third time this year. For two days, the more than 80 participants had the opportunity to discuss project statuses in SMITH as well as take part in workshops...

21.07.2022

11,000 patients make their healthcare data available for research in SMITH

In everyday clinical practice, large amounts of healthcare data are routinely generated. This data is of great interest for medical research. It can, for example, help researchers to better understand disease progression and thus develop more targeted treatments. ...

07.07.2022

SMITH draws positive interim result

On June 28 and 29, 2022, the time had finally come. With a delay of one year due to corona, the 2nd SMITH Congress under the motto "New Solutions in Digital Health" took place as a presence event at the dbb forum in Berlin....

23.05.2022

SMITH Closed Meeting in Jena | May 2022

After two years of online meetings, the stakeholders in the SMITH Consortium met again in Jena on May 18 and 19 for a closed meeting. The central topic of this year's second SMITH retreat was the project progress in data use at the end of...

10.05.2022

SMITH Congress 2022 – Registration is open!

After two years of pandemic, representatives of the SMITH Consortium together with more than 30 experts from research, healthcare, medical informatics and science policy will finally meet again in presence at this year's SMITH Congress. Since the 1st SMITH Congress took place in September 2019,...

20.04.2022

SMITH at DMEA 2022

The last two years of the pandemic have once again proved how much potential there is in the digitization of medicine and how important a cross-site networked health IT infrastructure is for more extensive and effective healthcare. The networking of research and care thus took...

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