Topic: Medical Informatics Initiative in Germany - Impulse for data sharing and standardization: An update on work
Description:
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 180 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.
The aim of the Medical informatics Initiative (MII) is to ensure that, in future, each doctor, patient and researcher has access to the information they require – while simultaneously allowing individuals to maintain control over their personal data.
The goal is to establish a way to exchange research and care data across university hospitals. If it proves successful – with the help of funding from BMBF – it will open up entirely new horizons. The solutions that will be developed are expected to create added value across the health system.
The webinar will provide an update on the work of the MII, and focus on terminology services and the MII Core Data set and used terminologies, focusing on the use case of infection control.
Presenters:
Prof. Sylvia Thun (Charité - University Medicine Berlin), Prof. Martin Boeker (Technical University of Munich), Josef Ingenerf (University Lübeck), Cora Drenkhahn (University Lübeck), Joshua Wiedekopf (University Lübeck)
The focus of the presentations was the clinical application of SNOMED CT, focusing specifically on its use in public health and clinical research, and it drew upon the implementation experiences of both presenters
