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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…

10 years of MII – our anniversary page

For ten years, the Medical Informatics Initiative has been shaping the future of health research in Germany. This year, the project celebrates its tenth anniversary.

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.