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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 Hamburg Data Integration Center explains what it offers to researchers at its location and how the Data Integration Center plans to develop in the future....
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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 report....
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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 students Marie-Sophie Polifka and Sarina Shams discuss their work as annotators in Leipzig and share how the project will benefit their future careers....
5 Questions for
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 projects and services, explains how it is driving the digital transformation of healthcare, and outlines its vision for the future....
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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 has been made possible by the continuous expansion of the technical infrastructure and the associated processes....
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Event Dates

May 28, 2025

3rd Heidelberg Spring Symposium Medical Informatics

Venue: Marsilius-Arkaden at the Heidelberg University Hospital + Live-Stream

July 09, 2025

3rd Meeting – National Steering Committee

Project internal meeting

Venue: TMF Berlin

August 27 – 28, 2025

DISTANCE Closing event for the 1st funding period

Project internal meeting

Venue: Courtyard by Marriott Düsseldorf Seestern

Further Information

Flyer Information & Overview SMITH Consortium

Fact Sheet Medical Informatics Initiative

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The Patient Consent Form of the Medical Informatics Initiative

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