We Know What You Agreed To, Don’t We? – New Open Access Publication

10. January 2023|General, gICS, Projects, Publications|

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 article highlights paper-based consent forms, [...]

A FHIR has been lit on gICS! – New Open Access Publication

6. January 2023|General, gICS, Publications|

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 highlights backgrounds in relation to [...]

New Publication – ‘3LGM2IHE: Requirements for data-protection-compliant research infrastructures. A systematic comparison of theory and practice-oriented implementation’

16. December 2022|E-PIX, General, gICS, gPAS, Publications|

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 software solutions E-PIX, gPAS and [...]

New Community-Releases of E-PIX, gPAS und gICS available

2. November 2022|E-PIX, gICS, gPAS, Releases|

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 be able to notify appropriately [...]

Live-Demo: Presentation of the new integration module for gICS in Thieme’s E-ConsentPro

10. February 2022|gICS, Software and documents|

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 live demonstration, the gICS demo [...]

Update: gICS® version 2.13.4 available

31. January 2022|gICS, Releases|

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 2.1.0) has been extended. Details [...]

New publication on gICS®: Survey on the status quo and consent management at MIRACUM sites

25. March 2021|gICS, Publications|

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 in the MIRACUM consortium of [...]

New TMF publication (in collaboration with the University Medicine Greifswald) available: Data Privacy in European Medical Research

12. February 2021|General, Projects, Publications|

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 has been written in English [...]