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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...

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...

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...

30.04.2025

A Look into the Data Integration Centers: Paving the way for research and digital innovation in medicine – The Data Integration Center Halle

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 issue, the Data Integration Center Halle presents its...

23.04.2025

More than 66,000 patients contribute their health data to the SMITH Consortium

As of March 2025, a total of 66,228 patients at university hospitals in the SMITH Consortium have given consent for their health data to be used for research since 2018. This means that the number of consents has increased sixfold since July 2022. This success...

15.04.2025

Patient Participation in DISTANCE: How Deutsche Sepsis-Hilfe e. V. Supports Digital Intensive Care Aftercare

To ensure that the technical solutions and infrastructures developed in the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) benefit patients in the best possible way, their active involvement in MII projects is essential. The Digital Hub DISTANCE is setting a good example by involving the German Sepsis Help...

The INTERPOLAR team at the INTERPOLAR Day on March 11 and 12, 2025 in BioCity.

18.03.2025

Medication Safety in Focus: INTERPOLAR Team Prepares for Second Study Phase | INTERPOLAR Day in Leipzig

This spring, the INTERPOLAR studies on medication safety will enter their second phase. To discuss the next steps in the project, the team met on March 11th and 12th for the INTERPOLAR Day at the BioCity in Leipzig. ...

Das Team des Dateninterationszentrums Düsseldorf seht in einem Gang.

13.03.2025

A Look into the Data Integration Centers: From container to data hub – the Düsseldorf Data Integration Center on its way to full operation

The Data Integration Center at the University Hospital Düsseldorf (UKD) participated in the SMITH Consortium as a network partner from 2018 to 2022. Since 2023, the Data Integration Center Düsseldorf has been under construction and is now almost fully operational. Read the short profile to...

Team of the Data Integration Center Rostock

12.02.2025

A Look into the the Data Integration Centers: An important resource for clinical researchers in the future – The Medical Data Integration Center Rostock

The Medical Data Integration Center at the University Medical Center Rostock,was a network partner in the SMITH Consortium from 2018 to 2022 and started its development in 2023. Read more about the Data Integration Center Team and its plans to offer medical researchers in the...

05.02.2025

How smartphones and wearables can help diagnose Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease | 5 Questions for… Dr. Lara Marie Reimer, Head of the NDEMobil Junior Research Group

Neurodegenerative diseases (NDDs) currently represent a major medical challenge. Early diagnosis is crucial to slow the progression of the disease. The NDEMobil Junior Research Group at the University Hospital Bonn is researching technical solutions that enable early diagnosis and monitoring of the progression of NDDs....

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