New releases of E-PIX, gPAS and gICS freely available

26. October 2023|General|

As of today, the latest releases of E-PIX, gPAS and gICS are available to the community for free download. Thanks a lot for the detailed feedback from the community, which we have taken into account in these bugfix releases. The tools are delivered with the TTP-FHIR gateway, which has also been optimized. Details can [...]

Consent template for MII sample text (v1.7.2) available for gICS

25. October 2023|General|

In cooperation with the Consent Working Group of the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII), the TMF provides sample texts for the patient consent declaration for the MII sites. This MII Broad Consent has been extensively coordinated with the responsible data protection authorities at national level. These sample texts are available in different versions and languages [...]

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, [...]