MIRACUM
Since September 2018, University Medicine Dresden has been an official MIRACUM partner. It is funded through BMBF with 2.7 million euros for the next three and a half years. MIRACUM as part of the medical informatics initiative has the major goal to establish a digital infrastructure that strengthen medical research and patient care.
MIRACUM brings together 10 university hospitals, 2 universities and an industrial partner. The aim is to ensure availability and access to clinical data, image data and data from molecular/genomic analysis for research projects site-related and across sites via modular, scalable and federated data integration centers.
Apart from conducting feasibility studies, observational studies and the investigation of "real world pathways" on a large scale, data integration centers can be leveraged to support patient recruitment for clinical trials as well as the development of prediction models and precision medicine.
In order to strengthen Medical Informatics and Medical Data Science, new professorships were advertised and staffed across all locations. Furthermore, a joint, cross-location master's program on "Biomedical Informatics and Medical Data Science" is to be established.
Data Integration Centers
The foundation of Data Integration Centers and their federated use is based on MIRACOLIX - an ecosystem of modular and reusable open source tools. MIRACOLIX is designed, developed and adapted to meet the MIRACUM requirements and allow integration into the infrastructure of the data integration centers during the next years.
The data flows needs protection. Therefore, strict consideration of the data protection recommendations of the TMF e. V. and the generic MIRACUM data protection concept as well as the respective patient consent is required.
Routine patient care systems deliver data to the research repositories to answer queries and analysis procedures from researchers.
Data sharing and federated usage of data ensures to accomplish the philosophy "Bring the analysis to the data".
Use Cases
The University Medicine Dresden has committed their contribution to the first of the three Use Cases in MIRACUM:
Alerting in Care – IT Support for Patient Recruitment:
Clinical trials often fail due to insufficient recruitment of suitable study participants. In order to support the recruitment process with IT procedures and existing routine data, we will integrate appropriate recruitment platforms into the HIS environments at each of our university hospitals. Additionally we will continuously improve the documentation quality and completeness of the data elements used for recruitment by means of regular evaluations and feedback loops.
MIRACUM @ University Medicine Dresden
The Data Integration Center in Dresden belongs to the newly founded Center for Medical Informatics (ZMI). It brings together the IT competencies of the university hospital and the medical faculty in a cross-structural way. Thus, the center acts as a central point of contact for all structural units of the University Medicine Dresden for their concerns in the field of digital medicine and IT.
MIRACUM / MIRACOLIX components integrate directly into the infrastructure of the University Medicine Dresden.
Comprehensive information on MIRACUM can be found at http://www.miracum.org
Further details about the medical informatics initiative can be found here: https://www.medizininformatik-initiative.de
Project coordination
© MF/Stephan Wiegand
Project manager
NameMs Anne-Katrin Andreeff
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Funding
fundet through BMBF as part of theMedizininformatik-Initiative
