In July 2019, the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) decided to use the international HL7 standard FHIR to implement the core data set of the MII. The uniform format simplifies exchanging data between healthcare software systems and provides uniform data for medical research....
On Friday, February 6th, 2020, the SMITH Consortium held the first partner dialogue meeting for non-university hospitals and medical networks. In an open exchange between around 80 participants from hospitals, medical networks, associations and industrial partners, the opportunities, which result from a collaborative partnership, were...
On April 1, 2020, the new part-time master's program "eHealth & Communication" will start at Friedrich Schiller University Jena. The interdisciplinary course combines medicine, computer science, public health and communication sciences, among others. ...
The clinical use case Algorithmic Surveillance - ASIC for short - defined by the SMITH Consortium describes a scenario that takes place primarily in intensive care units and deals with patients in whom Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) could occur due to various causes and...
The Medical Faculty of RWTH Aachen University with the Institute of Medical Informatics under the direction of Professor R. Röhrig, M.D., and the RWTH International Academy will offer the postgraduate, part-time and interprofessional degree program "Master of Science in Medical Data Science (M.Sc.)" starting in...
Networking data, improving health care - that's what the Federal Government's Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) stands for. The aim of the initiative, which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), is to improve research opportunities and patient care through innovative...
On September 17 and 18, 2019, the SMITH Consortium - one of four consortia of the Medical Informatics Initiative of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research - presented itself for the first time during a two-day congress in Berlin. Under the motto "New Horizons...
In September 2020, the master's programme Medical Data Science will start at the RWTH International Academy in Aachen. Dr. Ulrike Schemmann (Aachen) and Prof. Cord Spreckelsen (Jena) will present this course at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Education 2019 in Frankfurt am...
"In a comparatively short time, the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) has created the essential basis for digitally integrating routine clinical data from patient care across multiple sites – for better research and more targeted treatments,” stated Sebastian C. Semler, Executive Director of TMF – Technology,...
For the exchange of research and care data between the participating university hospitals, the SMITH Consortium of the Medical Informatics Initiative is building an innovative structure for cross-institutional networking. One goal here is to strengthen interdisciplinary research. To this end, the SMITH Consortium is offering...