Some of you have probably already come across the terms PPRL and fTTP in the past. For many, it was probably easy to roughly classify them into a topic. But when it comes to the background, challenges, and advantages, some scientists and project managers lack an overview of the rather complex details and contexts. [...]
As the title of this entry suggests, today's meeting of the TMF ‘Data Protection’ working group will demonstrate the possibilities offered by the new gICS Embedded Mode to enable user-friendly and simple documentation of patient consent in research projects and user sites. In other words, how can patient consent be obtained directly in gICS [...]
As part of MII and NUM, the data integration centres provide the information required to determine core dataset-specific key figures for the DIZ dashboard. Among other things, this key figure determination is the basis for achieving special DIZ funding criteria. The determination of the key figures is triggered on the DIZ dashboard side by [...]
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 [...]