Many healthcare IT systems in Germany are unable to interoperate with other systems
through standardised data formats. Therefore it is difficult to store and retrieve data and to …

The development of reliable mortality risk stratification models is an active research area in
computational healthcare. Mortality risk stratification provides a standard to assist physicians …

The evolution of technology in clinical environments increases the level of precision in
patient care, as well as optimizes the management of healthcare centers. However, the need …

Medical care is increasingly delivered by multiple providers across healthcare sectors and
specialties, leading to a fragmentation of the electronic patient record across organizations …

Objectives: Clinical Research Informatics (CRI) declares its scope in its name, but its
content, both in terms of the clinical research it supports—and sometimes initiates—and the …

As part of the digitalization strategy for medical documentation, we introduced a vendor-
neutral archive (VNA) at the Jena University Hospital. The VNA provides data based on …

As a consequence of the epidemiological transition towards non-communicable diseases,
integrated care approaches are required, not solely focused on medical purposes, but also …

Despite the benefits of reusing health data collected in routine care, sharing datasets
outside of the organizational boundaries is not always possible due to the legal and ethical …

The increasing plurality and complexity of technical assistance systems pose a challenge for
clinically active physicians. Particularly in the operating theater, there is a growing need to …

The task of automatically analyzing the textual content of documents faces a number of
challenges in general but even more so when dealing with the medical domain. Here, we …