German Medical Informatics Initiative: Unlocking Data for Research and Health Care

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This article is part of the Focus Theme of Methods of Information in Medicine on the German Medical Informatics Initiative. The Medical Informatics Initiative of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research will make use of the potential of digitalization in the field of medicine in Germany. The aim is to improve the possibilities for medical research and patient care through innovative IT solutions. In an initial step, data integration centres will be set up at university hospitals to ensure the technical and organizational conditions necessary for multi-site exchange of data between health care and clinical and biomedical research. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research will provide a total of around EUR 150 million for this initiative over the next four years.

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Journal ID (nlm-ta): Methods Inf Med

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Methods Inf Med

Journal ID (doi): 10.1055/s-00035037

Title: Methods of Information in Medicine

Publisher: Schattauer GmbH

ISSN (Print): 0026-1270

ISSN (Electronic): 2511-705X

Publication date (Print): July 2018

Publication date (Electronic): 17 July 2018

Volume: 57

Issue: Suppl 1

Pages: e46-e49

Affiliations

[1 ]DLR Project Management Agency, Bonn, Germany

[2 ]Project Management Jülich, Jülich, Germany

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Correspondence to: Stefanie Gehring, PhD DLR Project Management AgencyHeinrich-Konen-Straße 153227 BonnGermany Stefanie.Gehring@ 123456dlr.de

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DOI: 10.3414/ME18-13-0001

PMC ID: 6178201

PubMed ID: 30016817

SO-VID: df2b014a-e500-4673-ae8a-d587d37b4bd7

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This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License, which permits unrestricted reproduction and distribution, for non-commercial purposes only; and use and reproduction, but not distribution, of adapted material for non-commercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Date received : 02 February 2018

Date accepted : 09 February 2018

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