On August 25/26, 2021, this year's third SMITH Consortium quarterly closed meeting took place with over 100 participants. One of the main topics was the transparent participation of patients in the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), to...
Since the middle of the year, the Digital ProgressHubs Health of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research have been continuing the pioneering work of the Medical Informatics Initiative. Since July 2021, the project team of the DISTANCE ProgressHub has been working on improving preventive...
The website of the medical informatics consortium SMITH has been given a new look. After intensive conception and planning, the website presents itself with new visualization and revised content. ...
Again as web meeting, the SMITH quarterly closed meeting was held on the 26 - 27 May, 2021 with more than 100 participants. The head of the consortium, Prof. Dr. Markus Löffler and the SMITH office provided information on the current status of the consortium....
The Corona crisis has highlighted yet again the great potential of digital healthcare. Digital technologies, from telemedical applications to cross-practice and cross-clinic networking, are opportunities to provide patients with more comprehensive and effective care even beyond times of crisis. This year, DMEA - Europe's largest...
Artificial intelligence (AI) and adaptive learning systems are creating completely new treatment methods in medicine. May it evaluating data, recognizing patterns or comparing symptoms. The increasing development goes hand in hand with enormous expectations for the progress of medical care. The University Hospital RWTH Aachen,...
This year, the RWTH Aachen International Academy announces the following scholarship offers for the postgraduate, part-time and interprofessional Master's program "Medical Data Science (M.Sc.)" for the winter semester 2021/22....
On February 1, 2021, the first units of the University Hospital RWTH Aachen, which are involved in the HELP Study, have moved from the control phase to the intervention phase. The clinical Use Case HELP of the SMITH Consortium is dedicated to responsible antibiotic therapy...
On the 24 - 25 February 2021, the quarterly closed meeting of the SMITH Consortium took place. 131 project staff members and representatives of the consortium management discussed and agreed on the current project statuses in a two-day web conference. The preparations for the audit,...
The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is funding the development of new courses of study as part of the Medical Informatics Initiative to thus enabling the digital transformation of the healthcare sector to take place and to be staffed with qualified personnel. In...