Projects

The software components of the project's article by Wermund et al. (2025; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000892) are available under "Related Items" > "Models".

Rare diseases (RD) occur with a prevalence of less than 1:2,000 persons (EU definition). More than 8,000 RD are known, often genetically determined. Due to their rare occurrence, the RD are often not diagnosed at all, incorrectly or with a long delay diagnosed. Medical experts are mainly involved in selected Centers for Rare Diseases available.The goal of the LEUKO-Expert project is to establish an expert system for the diagnostic support of RD Leukodystrophy and to evaluate it within the scope ...

The software components of this project are available under "Related Items" > "Models".

The aim of the project is to use methods and processes of the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) to contribute to the detection of health risks in patients with polypharmacy. Polypharmacy occurs especially in elderly patients with multimorbidity. Polypharmacy associated with an increased risk for medication errors and drug-drug or drug-disease interactions, which either reduce or intensify the desired effect of individual active substances or lead to undesired adverse drug effects (ADE). In the ...

There is a variety of libre/free and open-source software (LIFOSS) products for medicine and health care. The Health Information Technology Ontology (HITO) allows describing those products, as well as studies evaluating them, systematically with a defined set of classes and their relationships. With the help of linked or integrated catalogues for languages, programming languages, licenses, features, and enterprise functions, the functionalities of LIFOSS can be precisely described and compared. ...

SNIK is a semantic network of information management in hospitals, which uses Semantic Web standards like RDF and OWL to model and publish the knowledge of three textbooks (Ammenwerth et al., 2014; Heinrich et al., 2014; Winter et al., 2011), the IT4IT (The Open Group, 2017) standard and an interview with a hospital CIO.

This project covers the bachelor's and master's theses of the MAGIS working group.