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Goals

The aim of the Medical Informatics Initiative of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research is to make data from routine care available digitally, reliably and quickly for medical research. Through IT-supported analyses of this data, research helps to better recognise and treat diseases and to…

Organisational structure and actors

The central vision of the initiative is the development and deployment of IT solutions to strengthen research and enhance patient care in university hospitals.

Stakeholder engagement

Making the vision of the medical informatics initiative a reality entails willingness on the part of many individuals and groups. Patients must consent to the aggregation, integration and use of digitally compiled data. Medical professionals must embrace new working practices and organisational…

Additional links

The medical informatics initiative is part of a rich medical research and healthcare landscape: multiple partners collaborate to address overarching topics, such as IT infrastructure, data protection, data use, management of research data, interoperability, and patient information and consent.

Use Cases

During the development and networking phase of the Medical Informatics Initiative, the consortia are developing IT solutions for concrete use cases – to demonstrate the possibilities offered by advanced digital services and infrastructures in healthcare.

Phases

The medical informatics initiative will unfold in three distinct phases. The first began in 2016, and the last is slated to end in 2026.

Results

With support from the coordination office, the national steering committee (NSC) and its working groups have developed and agreed a range of concepts and strategy papers on central topics and challenges of the medical informatics initiative.