Medical Data Integration Center of MHH
NUM-DIZ
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Project partners
All 36 university hospitals across Germany are partners in this project. In addition, there are several other partners from academia, industry und associated partners.
Funding
The project NUM-DIZ is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research within the national initiative Netzwerk Universitätsmedizin (promotional referrence: 01KX2121). Hannover Medical School (MHH) is funded with 1.2 million euros.
Summary
NUM-DIZ stands for "Netzwerk Universitätsmedizin-Datenintegrationszentrum". A Datenintegrationszentrum in or English Medical Data Integration Center (short MeDIC) has been set up at each university hospitals across Germany. Die Förderlinie dient der Weiterentwicklung der einzelnen Datenintegrationszentren, ist zur Zusammenführung multilokaler, heterogener Daten gegründet worden sind.
The strategic objective of the MeDICs are to establish an infrastructure based on internationally accepted, open standards for the cross-institutional exchange of medical data to improve patient care and research opportunities in cooperation with all the other MeDICs. To achieve this goal, data must be interoperable in the participating institutions. The conditions and necessary measures for interoperability and interchangeability of the data are therefore coordinated across the institutions (common information management). Of course, data protection, data security as well as data privacy (informational self-determination) of the patients are of highest importance.
Even the research profits by the cross-institutional exchange of medical data, because it can be helpful for the treatment of a new patient to have information about similar cases. Furthermore, it is possible to get an empirically sound number of cases for rare diseases and new insights about these diseases.
Duration
2023-2025