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Medical Informatics Initiative

Strengthening research and advancing healthcare

The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) launched its medical informatics funding scheme to make data from healthcare and research more useful and meaningful. It provides around 500 million euros with the aim of strengthening medical research and improving patient care. All of Germany’s university hospitals have joined forces with research institutions, businesses, health insurers, and patient advocacy groups to create a framework that harnesses research findings to the direct benefit of patients.

German Portal for Medical Research Data

At the German Portal for Medical Research Data (FDPG), researchers can centrally request access to health data and biospecimen from German university medicine for scientific research. The portal was developed within the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) and is now also available to MII-external researchers.

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Information for patients

The Medical Informatics Initiative published a website in May 2023 to provide patients with clear and understandable information about the use of health data for medical research purposes.

Screenshot der Startseite der MII-Patienten-Webseite. Copyright: TMF e.V.

New Use Cases launched

Data Integration Centres (DIC) have been established at university medical sites throughout Germany. In these centres, health care data are to be made available for medical research in a data protection-compliant manner. The functionality of the DIC is now being tested and further developed in eight new clinical use cases and three new method platforms of the Medical Informatics Initiative.

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With the newsletter "MII Insights" the Medical Informatics Initiative provides regular information about project progress and results of the joint collaboration. The newsletter is only available in German language.

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