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HiGHmed - Medical Informatics

HiGHmed is working on novel, interoperable solutions in medical informatics with the aim to make medical patient data accessible for clinical research and education which will, in turn, improve patient care.  

The long-term vision for HiGHmed is to develop a joint technology platform across all university hospitals and research units that will swiftly assist and promote data-based knowledge-building and decision-making processes in patient-centric diagnostics, treatment and care. The concept will be developed in line with three prototypical use cases and rolled out to further clinical partners in medium to long-term. HiGHmed will develop a joint cross-institutional reference architecture based on relevant existing standards such as IHE, openEHR and FHIR. 

The infection control use case will develop a software system to analyse various data sources from hospitals, with the aim to detect potentially dangerous germs as early as possible. This automated early warning system will help to protect patients from new infections, but also to understand their causes and how infectious diseases spread. At first, HiGHmed will target multidrug-resistant germs within and across university and non-university hospitals. These organisms are dangerous and may lead to life-threatening situations. 

To achieve this aim, HiGHmed will address several demanding challenges, particularly in data integration, data visualisation and data analysis for establishing spatial, temporal, biological and functional associations. 

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