12th INTERPOLAR Day on March 26–27, 2026 in Leipzig On March 26 and 27, project members from the INTERPOLAR project met to exchange on the next phase of the studies on medication safety. INTERPOLAR investigates how IT-supported medication analyses can assist hospital pharmacists in identifying......
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The POLAR project investigated the association between polypharmacy and health risks. In this Interview, Louisa Redeker, research associate at the Department of Clinical Pharmacology at Witten/Herdecke University, discusses her subproject. She examined the relationship between potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) and the occurrence of falls in older patients....
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The Data Integration Center at University Medicine Halle has implemented the “Microbiology” module of the core data set of the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII). With this step, the site reaches another milestone and expands its interoperable data infrastructure to include structured microbiological findings....
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In the SMITH news series “A Look into the Data Integration Centers”, the Data Integration Centers established within the SMITH Consortium of the German Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) are introduced. Originally established at university medical sites, the Data Integration Centers enable secure and data protection-compliant......
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A large proportion of medical data is generated every day in the routine care provided by regional hospitals. Its potential for research is enormous, yet it remains largely untapped. How such data can in future be structured, used securely, and made available across sectors for scientific research was the focus of the DISTANCE:PRO project retreat held on 16 and 17 December 2025 in the picturesque town of Freyburg at the Unstrut....
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