HiGHmed is a project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as part of the Medical Informatics Initiative. The goal is to make data from research and care accessible to one another. Medical Data Integration Centers (MeDICs) are designed to integrate medical data from partner institutions to integrate heterogeneous and large supply and research databases and enable cross-site reuse to add value to research, care and ultimately patients

Achieving the goals of HiGHmed requires the creation of semantic interoperability among the participating organizations as it forms the basis for secure data exchange and retrieval. This requires the rigorous, inter-facility management of semantic artifacts. These include archetypes in the context of openEHR.

The HiGHmed project will establish a networked eHealth platform to support clinical research and care processes. In order to demonstrate and validate the added value of this platform, a total of three applications from the fields of oncology, infection control and cardiology will be implemented as examples. For this purpose, an application system is developed in each case. In addition, data from the MeDICs for generic research processes will be provided through IHE XDS and Archetype Query Language to other institutions. It is foreseeable that within the next 4 years in the MeDICs further research projects outside of HiGHmed will be implemented via this platform and correspondingly developed solutions will be offered as scientific services at the respective locations.

In practical terms, this means that domain experts, documentaries and information architects from the various participating institutions need to collaboratively work on semantic artifacts to address the different needs of the use cases and beyond. This requires a central instance of the tool. Hosting can be done by an external service provider because no patient data is stored.

In addition to providing the tool, training is required for the various user groups (editors, reviewers, administrators).

The allocation is made in partial services with the following breakdown:

Part 1: Hannover Medical School - openEHR Information Model Governance Tool

Part 2: University Medical Center Göttingen - openEHR Information Model Governance Tool

Part 3 a: Heidelberg University Hospital / Department of Medical Information Systems (MIS) - openEHR Information Model Governance Tool

Teilleistung 3 b: Heidelberg University Hospital / Health Data Science Unit (HDSU) - openEHR Information Model Governance Tool