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View article: Effectiveness of Guideline-based Clinical Decision Support Systems: Protocol for a Systematic Review (Preprint)
Effectiveness of Guideline-based Clinical Decision Support Systems: Protocol for a Systematic Review (Preprint) Open
BACKGROUND Clinical guidelines (CGs) standardize care through evidence-based recommendations, while Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) can assist in applying these guidelines to individual patients. The scientific basis for the deci…
View article: Prompt design for medical question answering with Large Language Models
Prompt design for medical question answering with Large Language Models Open
View article: Democratizing AI in Healthcare with Open Medical Inference (OMI): Protocols, Data Exchange, and AI Integration
Democratizing AI in Healthcare with Open Medical Inference (OMI): Protocols, Data Exchange, and AI Integration Open
The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into healthcare is transforming clinical decision-making, patient outcomes, and workflows. AI inference, applying trained models to new data, is central to this evolution, with cloud-based in…
View article: Deep learning and abstractive summarisation for radiological reports: an empirical study for adapting the PEGASUS models' family with scarce data
Deep learning and abstractive summarisation for radiological reports: an empirical study for adapting the PEGASUS models' family with scarce data Open
Regardless of the rapid development of artificial intelligence, abstractive summarisation is still challenging for sensitive and data-restrictive domains like medicine. With the increasing number of imaging, the relevance of automated tool…
View article: GeMTeX’s De-Identification in Action: Lessons Learned & Devil’s Details
GeMTeX’s De-Identification in Action: Lessons Learned & Devil’s Details Open
Introduction: In 2024, the GeMTeX project launched the largest ever de-identification campaign for German-language clinical reports, and, as a pilot study, published GraSCCoPHI, the first de-identified German-language gold standard corpus …
View article: Medical Entity Linking in Low-Resource Settings with Fine-Tuning-Free LLMs
Medical Entity Linking in Low-Resource Settings with Fine-Tuning-Free LLMs Open
Introduction: Medical entity linking is an important task in biomedical natural language processing, aiming to align textual mentions of medical concepts with standardized concepts in ontologies. Most existing approaches rely on supervised…
View article: Large language models-enabled digital twins for precision medicine in rare gynecological tumors
Large language models-enabled digital twins for precision medicine in rare gynecological tumors Open
Rare gynecological tumors (RGTs) present major clinical challenges due to their low incidence and heterogeneity. The lack of clear guidelines leads to suboptimal management and poor prognosis. Molecular tumor boards accelerate access to ef…
View article: International electronic health record-derived COVID-19 clinical course profiles: the 4CE consortium
International electronic health record-derived COVID-19 clinical course profiles: the 4CE consortium Open
View article: German Medical NER with BERT and LLMs: The Impact of Training Data Size
German Medical NER with BERT and LLMs: The Impact of Training Data Size Open
Named Entity Recognition (NER) in the medical domain often presents significant challenges due to the complexity and specificity of medical terminology, especially in lower-resource settings where annotated data is scarce. This study explo…
View article: Building a Modular Health Information Crawler: Leveraging Apache Nutch for the Tala-Med Search Engine
Building a Modular Health Information Crawler: Leveraging Apache Nutch for the Tala-Med Search Engine Open
Developed in 2020, the tala-med search engine provides high-quality, evidence-based health information from trustworthy German websites while ensuring user privacy. However, it still leaves room for technical improvements. In the present w…
View article: Building the Infrastructure for the German Medical Text Corpus Project (GeMTeX)
Building the Infrastructure for the German Medical Text Corpus Project (GeMTeX) Open
The German Medical Text Project (GeMTeX) is one of the largest infrastructure efforts for German-language clinical documents. To determine the different starting points of the participating institutions, we conducted a survey regarding sta…
View article: Integrating the Patient Perspective into Healthcare and Real-World Evidence: The Multi-site, Cross-Disease, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Project in the Medical Informatics Initiative (PCOR-MII)
Integrating the Patient Perspective into Healthcare and Real-World Evidence: The Multi-site, Cross-Disease, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Project in the Medical Informatics Initiative (PCOR-MII) Open
This paper presents the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research within the Medical Informatics Initiative (PCOR-MII) project, focusing on the integration of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) into a large-scale national data sharing infrastructur…
View article: Automated Monitoring of Clinical Practice Guideline Adherence Using FHIR and OMOP: A Multi-Center Study in Intensive Care Units
Automated Monitoring of Clinical Practice Guideline Adherence Using FHIR and OMOP: A Multi-Center Study in Intensive Care Units Open
Background Clinical practice guidelines are important tools for clinical decision support, but monitoring guideline adherence manually is highly resource-intensive. Therefore, we developed an automated system for evaluating guideline adher…
View article: MIRAPIE: Proposing a Harmonising Framework as a Minimal Community Standard for Biomedical Provenance Documentation
MIRAPIE: Proposing a Harmonising Framework as a Minimal Community Standard for Biomedical Provenance Documentation Open
View article: Prompt Design for Medical Question Answering with Large Language Models
Prompt Design for Medical Question Answering with Large Language Models Open
View article: Prompt Design for Medical Question Answering with Large Language Models
Prompt Design for Medical Question Answering with Large Language Models Open
View article: External validation of a multiple sclerosis treatment decision score using data from the ProVal-MS cohort study
External validation of a multiple sclerosis treatment decision score using data from the ProVal-MS cohort study Open
Background: The course of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS), frequently preceded by the clinically isolated syndrome (CIS), is variable and challenging to predict. Given many treatment options available, prognostic algorithms a…
View article: GerMedIQ: A Resource for Simulated and Synthesized Anamnesis Interview Responses in German
GerMedIQ: A Resource for Simulated and Synthesized Anamnesis Interview Responses in German Open
View article: Bridging Data Silos in Oncology with Modular Software for Federated Analysis on Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources: Multisite Implementation Study
Bridging Data Silos in Oncology with Modular Software for Federated Analysis on Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources: Multisite Implementation Study Open
Background Real-world data (RWD) from sources like administrative claims, electronic health records, and cancer registries offer insights into patient populations beyond the tightly regulated environment of randomized controlled trials. To…
View article: Evaluating the Acceptance and Usability of an Independent, Noncommercial Search Engine for Medical Information: Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Study and User Behavior Tracking Analysis
Evaluating the Acceptance and Usability of an Independent, Noncommercial Search Engine for Medical Information: Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Study and User Behavior Tracking Analysis Open
Background The internet is a key source of health information, but the quality of content from popular search engines varies, posing challenges for users—especially those with low health or digital health literacy. To address this, the “ta…
View article: Processing of Short-Form Content in Clinical Narratives: Systematic Scoping Review
Processing of Short-Form Content in Clinical Narratives: Systematic Scoping Review Open
Background Clinical narratives are essential components of electronic health records. The adoption of electronic health records has increased documentation time for hospital staff, leading to the use of abbreviations and acronyms more freq…
View article: Recommendations for reviewing manuscripts of the article types “project report” and “how to” for the GMS Journal for Medical Education
Recommendations for reviewing manuscripts of the article types “project report” and “how to” for the GMS Journal for Medical Education Open
Objective: This position paper of the Committee on Methodology in Educational Research sets out the criteria for the acceptance, revision, or rejection of manuscripts of the article types project report and how to in the GMS Journal for Me…
View article: Large Language Models-Enabled Digital Twins for Precision Medicine in Rare Gynecological Tumors
Large Language Models-Enabled Digital Twins for Precision Medicine in Rare Gynecological Tumors Open
Rare gynecological tumors (RGTs) present major clinical challenges due to their low incidence and heterogeneity. The lack of clear guidelines leads to suboptimal management and poor prognosis. Molecular tumor boards accelerate access to ef…
View article: Bridging Data Silos in Oncology with Modular Software for Federated Analysis on FHIR: A Multisite Implementation Study (Preprint)
Bridging Data Silos in Oncology with Modular Software for Federated Analysis on FHIR: A Multisite Implementation Study (Preprint) Open
BACKGROUND Real-world data (RWD) from sources like administrative claims, electronic health records, and cancer registries offer insights into patient populations beyond the tightly regulated environment of randomized controlled trials. T…
View article: State-of-the-Art Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)–Based Data Model and Structure Implementations: Systematic Scoping Review
State-of-the-Art Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)–Based Data Model and Structure Implementations: Systematic Scoping Review Open
Background Data models are crucial for clinical research as they enable researchers to fully use the vast amount of clinical data stored in medical systems. Standardized data and well-defined relationships between data points are necessary…
View article: Informing pandemic management in Germany with trustworthy living evidence syntheses and guideline development: lessons learned from the COVID-19 evidence ecosystem
Informing pandemic management in Germany with trustworthy living evidence syntheses and guideline development: lessons learned from the COVID-19 evidence ecosystem Open
CEOsys provided a proof-of-concept for a functioning evidence ecosystem at the national level. Lessons learned include that similar networks should, among others, involve methodological and clinical key stakeholders early on, aim for (inte…
View article: Die Medizininformatik-Initiative im Überblick – Aufbau einer Gesundheitsforschungsdateninfrastruktur in Deutschland
Die Medizininformatik-Initiative im Überblick – Aufbau einer Gesundheitsforschungsdateninfrastruktur in Deutschland Open
View article: Arbeitsgruppe Interoperabilität: Kerndatensatz und Informationssysteme für Integration und Austausch von Daten in der Medizininformatik-Initiative
Arbeitsgruppe Interoperabilität: Kerndatensatz und Informationssysteme für Integration und Austausch von Daten in der Medizininformatik-Initiative Open
View article: Automatisierte Surveillance und Risikovorhersage mit dem Ziel einer risikostratifizierten Infektionskontrolle und -prävention (RISK Prediction for Risk-stratified Infection Control and Prevention)
Automatisierte Surveillance und Risikovorhersage mit dem Ziel einer risikostratifizierten Infektionskontrolle und -prävention (RISK Prediction for Risk-stratified Infection Control and Prevention) Open
View article: Kompetenzentwicklung in der Medizininformatik-Initiative (MII) – Lehrangebote für einen souveränen und sicheren Umgang mit medizinischen Daten
Kompetenzentwicklung in der Medizininformatik-Initiative (MII) – Lehrangebote für einen souveränen und sicheren Umgang mit medizinischen Daten Open
Zusammenfassung Um die Ziele der Medizininformatik-Initiative (MII) erreichen zu können, wird Personal mit Kompetenzen im Bereich der medizinischen Informatik und Datenwissenschaften benötigt. Um diese Kompetenzen zu fördern, wurden in jed…