HiGHmed Consortium
HiGHmed Consortium
HiGHmed is a nationwide medical informatics project with the aim of improving the accessibility of medical patient data for clinical research, teaching and healthcare.
The HiGHmed consortium is taking part in the national funding programme "Medical Informatics Initiative (MII)", which was announced by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in 2015. The funding programme aims to advance digitalisation in medicine by facilitating the exchange and sharing of data between research institutions and healthcare providers through innovative IT solutions.
Following an initial conceptual phase, the founding members of the HiGHmed consortium, Heidelberg University Hospital, Göttingen University Medical Centre and Hannover Medical School, received funding for the development and networking phase (2018-2022). Five more university hospitals joined the project at the start of the phase in 2018: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, University Hospital Cologne, University Hospital Würzburg, University Hospital Münster and University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein. In addition, the Carl-Thiem-Klinikum Cottbus was the first hospital to join the HiGHmed consortium as a network partner in 2020.
To date, the consortium bundles the expertise of 12 university hospitals and medical schools as well as other academic and industrial partners. This strong expertise has been applied in prototype clinical use cases in oncology, cardiology and infection control. Since 1 January 2023, the HiGHmed consortium has been in the consolidation and further development phase (2023-2026) of the BMBF funding programme.
The University of Oldenburg has been a member of HiGHmed e.V. since March 2022 and is now also part of the HiGHmed consortium: