White paper: Improving record linkage for health research in Germany

18. September 2023|General|

The white paper: Improving record linkage for health research in Germany was published a few days ago. The publication was produced as part of the NFDI4Health project in cooperation with the BMBF's Medical Informatics Initiative, the University Medicine Network and TMF e.V.. In essence, it examines various use cases in relation to the status [...]

Gefyra workshop “Consent management with FHIR”

12. September 2023|Community, Conference contributions, General|

Gefyra GmbH is offering a series of workshops on HL7 FHIR in the fall. We are participating in these scientific training opportunities and are supporting the workshop “Consent management with HL7 FHIR”. The workshop presents the options for the digital management of declarations of consent and provides a detailed insight into the specifications currently [...]

MIRACUM-DIFUTURE colloquium: gICS supports core dataset module “Consent” of the medical informatics initiative

11. July 2023|Conference contributions, FHIR, General, gICS, Software and documents|

As part of the MIRACUM-DIFUTURE colloquium, the new gICS release and its significance in the context of the core dataset module “Consent” and the Research Data Portal Health (FDPG) were explained. The presentation includes a brief presentation of the Consent search parameters of the core dataset module “Consent” (version 1.0.3) a classification regarding the [...]

Official closure of the commenting process: Release of the fTTP interface specification (Probability, Clearing)

5. June 2023|Community, FHIR, General, MII, NUM, Software and documents|

As part of the commenting process (Ballot) carried out at the beginning of 2023 in accordance with the voting rules of HL7 Germany, we received a wide range of comments and suggestions from all four consortia of the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) and several sites of the Network of University Medicine (NUM). All [...]

THS Community Dialog on June 1, 2023

9. May 2023|Community, E-PIX, FHIR, General, gICS, gPAS|

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 [...]

We Know What You Agreed To, Don’t We? – New Open Access Publication

10. January 2023|General, gICS, Projects, Publications|

Researchers are aware of a consent’s importance, because informed consents are THE basis for study participation in research projects, if not otherwise regulated by law. Any incorrectly filled-in consent is invalid and inevitably leads to the participant’s exclusion from the study and loss of data for the research. The article highlights paper-based consent forms, [...]

A FHIR has been lit on gICS! – New Open Access Publication

6. January 2023|General, gICS, Publications|

For our users, who carefully read our News and Release-Notes, it is certainly not a technical novelty that our consent management gICS already supports the HL7 Germany FHIR Standard for Consent Management since 2021. Together with the colleagues from Erlangen, Munich and Heilbronn, a n article was published, which highlights backgrounds in relation to [...]

New Publication – ‘3LGM2IHE: Requirements for data-protection-compliant research infrastructures. A systematic comparison of theory and practice-oriented implementation’

16. December 2022|E-PIX, General, gICS, gPAS, Publications|

At the end of the year, another publication from the Trusted Third Party Greifswald was published. As part of the DFG-funded project 3LGM2IHE, requirements for record linkage, pseudonymization and the management of consents were extracted from the TMF Data Protection Guidlines (TMF Datenschutzleitfaden). These requirements were compared with the software solutions E-PIX, gPAS and [...]