We are happy to announce a newly established professorship in the context of the MIRACUM consortium. The Faculty of Medicine of the Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen invites applicants for a W2 Professorship for Biomedical Informatics and Systemati
In order to support the interest of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research to expand the planned data integration centre networks across all German university hospitals, MIRACUM had defined a set of rules and requirements for adding a new par
30 MIRACUM members gathered in Erlangen from 6th to 7th February to present the status of ongoing pilot projects and to discuss the projects and aims for the development and networking phase of the medical informatics initiative. One highlight: we we
New insights into the relationship between changes in genomic sequences and diseases can be gained even faster and more reliably if the genomic information of the respective patient is included in the analysis and evaluation of the medical data of a
The first 2-day workshop of the MIRACUM consortium was hosted by the University Hospital of Frankfurt from 27th to 28th October 2016 and around 30 consortium members followed the invitation to Frankfurt. The agenda was fully packed - beginning with l
How does the US meet the challenges posed by the broad range of medical informatics? Which approaches may be taken as a role model for Germany? These and other questions were the focus of the MIRACUM trip to the hotspots of medical informatics in New
During the workshop on “Data Warehouse Systems as a Basis for Precision Medicine”, organized by the German Centres for Health Research (DZG) and held at the World Health Summit in Berlin on 11th October 2016, Ulli Prokosch, representative of the
Prof. Prokosch presented MIRACUM and the BMBF German Medical Informatics Funding Scheme at the 4th i2b2 European Academic User Group Meeting in Pavia (15th/16th of September 2016). Please find the slides here: i2b2 Slides Pavia He also used thi
In order to be able to profit from the experience of similar US projects during the setup and networking phase of the project on the promotion of medical informatics (promoted by the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF)), a MIRACUM deleg
The National Steering Committee for the project of the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) on the promotion of medical informatics holds its first meeting on 30-August-2016 in the context of the HEC2016 conference in Munich. All in all,