The Data Trustees.
With 10 years of experience, the Trusted Third Party of the University Medicine Greifswald supports medical research in Europe. Person-identifying data are sensitive information. Therefore, it’s extremely important to protect access to this data – this is especially true for research with patient data in studies and registries. The organisationally Independent Trusted Third Party develops and operates specialised software to protect this data and, thus, offers data protection compliant solutions for medical research. As data trustees, we form the bridge between study participants, researchers and project partners and, thus, create trust, because: Trust makes medical research successful.
Are you planning storage and use of personal data for a study or a research project in compliance with data protection regulations? Are you looking for tools to help you with the digital acquisition and automatable processing of research data?
Are you a participant in a study, or do you plan to participate in a study? Did you receive an invitation to participate in a study? Would you like to inform yourself about the storage and use of your data?
Are you involved in conducting a study? Are you looking for documentation, e.g. descriptions of processes and standard operating procedures (SOPs)? Do you need access (login) to the data collection system of your project and search for the corresponding application?
The Trusted Third Party in numbers
As of April 2022
Great international interest in the new standard for patient consent based on HL7 FHIR®
Our session at this year's FHIR DevDays 2022 in Cleveland, Ohio on "Patient consent management in medical research with FHIR" has just ended. The aim was to present the results of the work of the HL7 Germany working group "Consent Management" and to make them known internationally. Of course, [...]
Update: gICS® version 2.13.4 available
As of today, the new version 2.13.4 of the consent management gICS® is available free of charge via our website to try out and as a Docker Compose version. Some improvements and bug fixes have been made to gICS. The range of functions of the included TTP-FHIR Gateway (version [...]
New publication on gICS®: Survey on the status quo and consent management at MIRACUM sites
Our open source electronic consent management solution gICS® was first made available for free use in 2014 and is part of the MIRACOLIX-Toolbox of the MIRACUM consortium.The current publication in the BMC Journal Translational Medicine Communications, entitled “A Survey on the current status and future perspective of informed consent management [...]
New TMF publication (in collaboration with the University Medicine Greifswald) available: Data Privacy in European Medical Research
In order to answer legal and practice-relevant questions conclusively with regard to applicable legislation, the University Medicine Greifswald commissioned a legal opinion from Dierks+Company using comprehensive and concrete questions related to the GDPR and national legislation. In order to provide maximum support for national and international cooperation projects, it [...]
NAPKON: The DZHK Trusted Third Party supports national COVID19 research
The many years of experience gathered by the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) with regards to data protection compliant acquisition of clinical data, diagnostic images and samples are now also being used for the German Covid-19 research. The DZHK provides its research platform for the National Pandemic Cohort [...]