We Know What You Agreed To, Don’t We? – New Open Access Publication
Researchers are aware of a consent’s importance, because informed consents are THE basis for study participation in research projects, if not otherwise regulated by law. Any incorrectly filled-in consent is invalid and inevitably leads to the participant’s exclusion from the study and loss of data for the research. The [...]
A FHIR has been lit on gICS! – New Open Access Publication
For our users, who carefully read our News and Release-Notes, it is certainly not a technical novelty that our consent management gICS already supports the HL7 Germany FHIR Standard for Consent Management since 2021. Together with the colleagues from Erlangen, Munich and Heilbronn, a n article was published, which [...]
New Publication – ‘3LGM2IHE: Requirements for data-protection-compliant research infrastructures. A systematic comparison of theory and practice-oriented implementation’
At the end of the year, another publication from the Trusted Third Party Greifswald was published. As part of the DFG-funded project 3LGM2IHE, requirements for record linkage, pseudonymization and the management of consents were extracted from the TMF Data Protection Guidlines (TMF Datenschutzleitfaden). These requirements were compared with the [...]
TTP-MedDocs and data managers strongly represented at DVMD congress
Science creates knowledge? In the TTP, everyone creates knowledge! At the DVMD anniversary congress in Leipzig, the TTP was strongly represented. But this time, the data managers and medical documentalists were on the scientific stage and in the spotlight for two days. All six colleagues who submitted an abstract [...]
New Community-Releases of E-PIX, gPAS und gICS available
Since today, updated releases of E-PIX, gPAS and gICS are available for download for the broad community. Besides new functionalities and numerous improvements, updated manuals and interface specifications are available. Part of the new community releases of E-PIX and gICS is a flexibly configurable notification system (notifications), e.g. to [...]
Great international interest in the new standard for patient consent based on HL7 FHIR®
We just finished our session on "Patient consent management in medical research with FHIR" at this year's FHIR DevDays 2022 in Cleveland, Ohio. The aim was to present the results of the HL7 Germany working group "Consent Management" and to make them known internationally. Of course, reference was also [...]
HL7 FHIR DevDays 2022: Patient consent management in medical research
Next week, the HL7 FHIR DevDays will take place in Cleveland, Ohio, as a hybrid event. The German HL7 FHIR Working Group "Consent Management" will present the freshly balloted FHIR Consent Profiles in the slot "Patient Consent Management in medical research with FHIR". These concepts form the basis for [...]
Live-Demo: Presentation of the new integration module for gICS in Thieme’s E-ConsentPro
Inspired by the MIRACUM sites and coordinated by the site situated in Dresden, Thieme Compliance has expanded its "E-ConsentPro" product to transmit consent content directly to the gICS consent management service in recent months. The technical basis for the connection is the freely available SOAP-interface of gICS. For the [...]
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 [...]
Current versions of our tools in the TMF Docker Hub
In the TMF Docker Hub, the latest versions of the tools E-PIX, gICS and gPAS from the Trusted Third Party Greifswald are now available. Each tool and everything needed to run it is contained in a single Docker image, respectivly. The new images are based on the proven image [...]
Scientific paper about the performance of the E-PIX® published
The Record Linkage Tool E-PIX® was extensively evaluated in the context of a master’s thesis at the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin. The evaluation focused on the performance of processing large numbers of patients. The results have now been published in the Journal of Translational Medicine in the publication "Assessment [...]
Consent management gICS® in new version 2.11.0 available
As of today, the new version 2.11.0 of our consent management gICS® is available free of charge via our website for testing purposes and via GitHub as a Docker Compose version. You can get help with the Docker installation at the official gICS® GitHub repository. Since this release, you [...]