At the last meeting of the TMF Data Protection Working Group, we presented the Semantic Consent Code, or SCC for short. The Semantic Consent Code: consists of semantic axes: Class, Action, Purpose, Actor. enables the description of consent documents regardless of their structure and form creates a flexible and uniform basis for processing consent [...]
Since September 2020, we have been offering users of our tools and potentially interested parties a central point of contact to ask questions, understand the background and share experiences with other users. This THS Community Dialog forms the basis for the development of a joint FAQ in our community area. Participation is free of [...]
Background Initiated by recurring questions in the bvitg's Interoperability Forum and in the Medical Informatics Initiative, the Consent Management Working Group was formed as part of the Interoperability Forum to reconcile the current lack of interoperability of standards, formats and tools and to define a uniform FHIR-based profile for consent templates and enable improved [...]
Participation in clinical trials requires informed consent. This is particularly important when storing samples in biobanks for future research. In pediatric studies, consent must be obtained from both the child and the legal representatives, which requires multiple consents to be recorded simultaneously. Electronic consents have become increasingly popular due to their error avoidance and [...]
Since September 2020, we have been offering users of our tools and potentially interested parties a central point of contact to ask questions, understand the background and share experiences with other users. This THS Community Dialogue forms the basis for the development of a joint FAQ in our community area. Participation is free of [...]
The 69th GMDS annual conference took place in Dresden from September 8 to 11. Guided by the theme “Health - thinking, researching, acting together”, scientists from various disciplines were brought together at the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden. The topic of data protection was strongly represented this time. It started with a basic tutorial [...]
As of today, a small bugfix release of gICS (v2024.1.1) is available for free download for the community. The bugfix release comes with the latest version of the TTP-FHIR Gateway (v2024.2.0), which also includes minor improvements. Thanks a lot for the detailed feedback from the community, which we have taken into account in [...]
There are a number of challenges to overcome in the field of consent-based medical research. Due to the large number of national and international research initiatives, the content and structure of consent documents are usually project-specific. The documentation and semantic annotation of this consent information also generally follow different existing technical and semantic approaches. [...]
The Registry Days 2024 took place in Berlin from 16.05.-17.05.2024. The organizer was the Technology and Methods Platform for Networked Medical Research (TMF e. V.). The University Medicine Greifswald (Christopher Hampf) and the Robert Koch Institute (Anna Lübbe) were invited to take a closer look at the topic of “Record linkage in the research [...]
The effectiveness of various eye treatments is to be investigated more precisely. To this end, large amounts of data are being evaluated and recommendations developed using artificial intelligence. This is the purpose of the large-scale research project “EyeMatics”, which starts in March and is supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research with [...]