The Data Trustees.
With 10 years of experience, the Trusted Third Party of the University Medicine Greifswald supports medical research in Europe. Person-identifying data are sensitive information. Therefore, it’s extremely important to protect access to this data – this is especially true for research with patient data in studies and registries. The organisationally Independent Trusted Third Party develops and operates specialised software to protect this data and, thus, offers data protection compliant solutions for medical research. As data trustees, we form the bridge between study participants, researchers and project partners and, thus, create trust, because: Trust makes medical research successful.
Are you planning storage and use of personal data for a study or a research project in compliance with data protection regulations? Are you looking for tools to help you with the digital acquisition and automatable processing of research data?
Are you a participant in a study, or do you plan to participate in a study? Did you receive an invitation to participate in a study? Would you like to inform yourself about the storage and use of your data?
Are you involved in conducting a study? Are you looking for documentation, e.g. descriptions of processes and standard operating procedures (SOPs)? Do you need access (login) to the data collection system of your project and search for the corresponding application?
The Trusted Third Party in numbers
As of March 2025
Tablet-based documentation of patients’ wishes – Presentation of the new gICS embedded mode at the TMF AG Datenschutz
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 [...]
KDS Consent module in the DIZ dashboard: Recommendation for determining the number of consents for gICS users
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 [...]
Presentation of the Semantic Consent Code in the TMF Data Protection Working Group
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 [...]
THS Community Dialog on 30.01.2025
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 [...]
Updated FHIR specification for consent management available – Voting process runs until January 31, 2025
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 [...]