Portal of Medical Data Models
The portal for medical data models is a German and European medical research infrastructure. It is an open-access metadata-repository initiated for scientific purposes that can generate, analyse, release and reuse medical forms.
Background
Each day large amounts of data are gathered by electronic health records. Because health care information systems are not compatible among themselves in general, structured data cannot easily be exchanged in between different institutions. Only a small part of all medical forms are openly available. Through this shortness of transparency, data-models adjustment processes in health care are being vastly interfered. Know-how of current or terminated studies and clinical documentation cannot be reused.Goals and target audience
Primary goals for medical data models are releasing reliable medical forms and data models, establishing transparent and interoperable standards for medical research and raising efficiency in the design of case report files. Besides improving the quality of documentation forms by reusing reliable forms and data-models, the comparability of research outcomes shall be enhanced.The portal is mainly established for medical professionals, for example:
- Medical doctors
- Medical Information Scientist
- Data manager
- Medical information specialist