Nationwide EyeMatics project: data-based research to measure treatment success precisely
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 [...]
We are looking for new members in our team
Trusted Third Party of the University Medicine Greifswald creates data protection-compliant solutions for medical research and carries out several research projects in the field of medical informatics throughout Germany and the EU. We are currently looking for new members to join our project and developer team. Do you enjoy [...]
THS Community Dialog on 20.03.2024
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 [...]
Revision of the latest bugfix releases of E-PIX and gICS
Due to an incompatible version of the two modules “Notification Client” and “Notification Service” in the releases of E-PIX and gICS provided at the end of January, it was necessary to replace these modules and compile a new revision of the releases with the same content, but including [...]
Official closure of the commenting process: Release of the gICS interface specification
As part of the commenting process (Ballot) carried out at the beginning of 2024 based on the voting rules of HL7 Germany, we received comments and suggestions from some consortia of the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII). The comments were processed accordingly. The current release of the implementation guide [...]
New bugfix releases of E-PIX and gICS freely available
As of today, the latest releases of E-PIX 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 [...]
E-HEALTH-COM article: HL7-FHIR standard for consent management on its way into practice
Last year in 2022, the HL7 Germany working group “Consent Management” reported on the concepts and background of the HL7 Germany FHIR standard for consent management and presented initial results. This FHIR standard of the HL7-D “Consent Management” working group is the starting point for the work of the [...]
THS Community Dialog on 13.12.2023
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 [...]
Announcement: Official comment process of the FHIR Implementation Guide for gICS
Selected research projects and a large number of MII sites in Germany are already using gICS to manage consents and revocations. gICS® has an FHIR facade (TTP-FHIR Gateway) to provide consent content and consent statuses via FHIR endpoint in accordance with the specifications of the HL7 Germany Working [...]
New releases of E-PIX, gPAS and gICS freely available
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 [...]
Consent template for MII sample text (v1.7.2) available for gICS
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 [...]
White paper: Improving record linkage for health research in Germany
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 [...]
Announcement: Transition to JakartaEE and Wildfly 30
We intend to make our software solutions E-PIX, gPAS, gICS and Dispatcher available to the community on the basis of the new Wildfly30 in future. The biggest change associated with this is the switch to Jakarta EE 10 (instead of JavaEE). To this end, we are updating numerous solution [...]
Gefyra workshop “Consent management with FHIR”
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 [...]
New releases of E-PIX, gPAS and gICS freely available
As announced in yesterday's community dialog, the latest releases of E-PIX, gPAS and gICS are now available for free download by the community. The focus of these bugfix releases is on supporting the current work of the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) and the Network of University Medicine (NUM). Thanks [...]