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02.04.2020

Cooperation between the Medical Informatics Initiative and KBV strengthens digitization in the healthcare sector

The National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KBV) has been a cooperation partner of the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) since last week. In close coordination, the partners are working on the development of research-compatible...

20.02.2020

SMITH Consortium hosts three-day FHIR Workshop

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....

12.02.2020

SMITH organizes partner dialogue meeting

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...

10.01.2020

Start of part-time, postgraduate study program “eHealth & Communication (M.Sc.)” at FSU Jena

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. ...

11.12.2019

Final development phase: warning app for early detection of acute respiratory failure

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...

10.12.2019

Master’s program in Medical Data Science to start in September 2020 at RWTH Aachen International Academy

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...

23.10.2019

The Federal Ministry of Education and Research presents the Medical Informatics Initiative at MEDICA 2019

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...

25.09.2019

SMITH Congress 2019 shows progress and prospects for Medical Informatics Initiative

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...

20.09.2019

GMA Annual Conference 2019 – Lecture on the master program “Medical Data Science”

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...

16.09.2019

Medical Informatics Initiative highlights achievements to date

"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,...

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