German university medical centres develop integrated electronic patient records
Universities envision the expansion of digital infrastructure for medical data –above and beyond the goals of BMBF’s Medical Informatics Initiative
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Use Cases (Consolidation and extension phase)
In the data integration centres (DIC) of the MII, health care data are to be made available for medical research in a data protection-compliant manner. During the consolidation and extension phase, the functionality of the DIC will be tested and further developed in new use cases of the MII. Eight…
Medical research: Request health data centrally
Medical Informatics Initiative opens German Portal for Medical Research Data
Taking the lead in digital health
German Federal Minister of Education and Research Wanka and Federal Minister of Health Gröhe are driving forward digital transformation in healthcare
PCOR-MII – Patient-Centered Outcomes Research within the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII)
Increasing life expectancy and the growing proportion of older people in industrialised countries mean that chronic diseases now account for more than 80 percent of the global disease burden. This results in new challenges for medicine: It is necessary to develop an optimised, multidimensional…
Use Case EyeMatics - "Treatment" of eye diseases with interoperable medical informatics
In Germany there are around 10,000 new cases of blindness every year, with 50 percent being caused by so-called age-related macular degeneration and 17 percent by diabetic retinopathy. "Intravitreal surgical drug application" (IVOM) is a common therapy for maintaining or improving vision in these…
On the way to the European Health Data Space
National initiatives for health data infrastructures from Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands in the exchange
“We have an admirable goal in our sights”
BMBF Medical Informatics Initiative: kick-off meeting for ADMIRE consortium
INTERPOLAR - Reducing medication related problems and drug interactions
The health problems that can result from taking medications incorrectly are often underestimated. This can lead to repeated hospitalizations and increased treatment needs. Older people, who often have to take several medications at the same time, are particularly affected. In the INTERPOLAR Use…
GeMTeX - Automated indexing of medical texts for research
In everyday clinical practice, numerous texts are produced, such as doctors' letters and reports, which contain valuable information about the development, course, and treatment of a disease. These texts could be used by natural language processing (NLP) tools to assist doctors and researchers in…