Dresden - Amsterdam: ZMI at the FHIR DevDays

The FHIR DevDays - the „largest FHIR-only event in the world“ - will take place in the Dutch capital from 3-6 June. The DevDays rank as the top event for the internationally positioned and well-connected FHIR community.

The ZMI is represented on site by our research associate Katja Hoffmann, who is taking part in the event via the Digital Progress Hub Health - MiHUBx. She gave a FHIR presentation on Wednesday 4 June on the topic of „Bridging the gap: Extending FHIR solutions from university hospitals to non-university healthcare providers in Germany“. Her presentation is part of the „DACH“- track - a format specially tailored to the DACH community of Germany, Austria and Switzerland and will be followed by a lively community talk.

While FHIR-implementation is well established in German university hospitals, extending these solutions to non-university healthcare providers remains a challenge. This presentation will share best practices and experiences from supporting a non-university hospital in setting up a data integration centre and connecting to the German Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) to provide routine data for research, which is in line with the goals of the Medical Informatics Hub in Saxony (MiHUBx).

The development of the technical infrastructure and the tools provided to facilitate data harmonisation according to FHIR and optionally according to OMOP CDM will also be discussed. In addition, the strategies for knowledge transfer, which are essential for enabling interoperability in resource-constrained environments, will be examined. Participants will gain insights into overcoming barriers to data harmonisation and delivery, with a focus on ensuring the sustainability and scalability of tools developed to support long-term interoperability efforts.

The presentation also serves as a topic-specific summary of MiHUBx, which will come to an end after 4 years in August 2025 and will be replaced by the follow-up project MiHUB. MiHUBx primarily addressed the question of how non-university locations, such as our partner Klinikum Chemnitz, can be supported with IT infrastructure so that they can provide data for research and cooperation between university and non-university clinics can be strengthened. In this context, Katja Hoffmann reports on the lessons learnt and provides an authentic comparison of what was thought at the start of the project and how developments actually turned out - in order to generate added value for the participants and the design and implementation of future research projects.

You can access the LinkedIn post here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mii-medizininformatik-initiative_fhirdevdays-mihubx-zmi-activity-7336400666493444100-OGl_?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAC_Q12YBoCc9PILuHR2JqsE_b84P9e-DlxQ