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 [...]
At the end of the year, we are once again providing a new set of releases for the community. As usual, the release notes list details about new functionalities, general improvements and bug fixes. In E-PIX, in addition to minor bug fixes and the acceleration of the dashboard, additional information on the data source [...]
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 [...]
New releases for our solution modules E-PIX, gPAS and gICS are available for free download. As usual, the release notes list details of new functionalities, general improvements and bug fixes. In E-PIX, support for the automatic sending of notifications has been extended. In gICS, numerous improvements have been implemented in the area of [...]
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 [...]
There are a number of challenges to overcome in the field of consent-based medical research. Due to the large number of national and international research initiatives, the content and structure of consent documents are usually project-specific. The documentation and semantic annotation of this consent information also generally follow different existing technical and semantic approaches. [...]
As of today, the latest releases of E-PIX, gPAS and gICS are available to the community for free download. Many thanks for the detailed feedback from the community, which we have taken into account in this release wherever possible.With the delivery of the JakartaEE-compatible version of FHIR HAPI, we have now completed our transition [...]