Tablet-based documentation of patients’ wishes – Presentation of the new gICS embedded mode at the TMF AG Datenschutz

18. March 2025|Community, FHIR, General, gICS, Sessions|

As the title of this entry suggests, today's meeting of the TMF ‘Data Protection’ working group will demonstrate the possibilities offered by the new gICS Embedded Mode to enable user-friendly and simple documentation of patient consent in research projects and user sites. In other words, how can patient consent be obtained directly in gICS [...]

KDS Consent module in the DIZ dashboard: Recommendation for determining the number of consents for gICS users

21. February 2025|Community, FHIR, General, gICS, Software and documents|

As part of MII and NUM, the data integration centres provide the information required to determine core dataset-specific key figures for the DIZ dashboard. Among other things, this key figure determination is the basis for achieving special DIZ funding criteria. The determination of the key figures is triggered on the DIZ dashboard side by [...]

THS Community Dialog on 30.01.2025

9. January 2025|Community, E-PIX, FHIR, General, gICS, gPAS|

Since September 2020, we have been offering users of our tools and potentially interested parties a central point of contact to ask questions, understand the background and share experiences with other users. This THS Community Dialog forms the basis for the development of a joint FAQ in our community area. Participation is free of [...]

Updated FHIR specification for consent management available – Voting process runs until January 31, 2025

8. January 2025|General|

Background Initiated by recurring questions in the bvitg's Interoperability Forum and in the Medical Informatics Initiative, the Consent Management Working Group was formed as part of the Interoperability Forum to reconcile the current lack of interoperability of standards, formats and tools and to define a uniform FHIR-based profile for consent templates and enable improved [...]

New publication – Electronic consent in on-site pediatrics with gICS: Creating a dedicated facility and capturing consent data

4. December 2024|General|

Participation in clinical trials requires informed consent. This is particularly important when storing samples in biobanks for future research. In pediatric studies, consent must be obtained from both the child and the legal representatives, which requires multiple consents to be recorded simultaneously. Electronic consents have become increasingly popular due to their error avoidance and [...]