Europe's Largest Research Infrastructure for Curated Medical Data Models with Semantic Annotations.

Background: Structural metadata from the majority of clinical studies and routine health care systems is currently not yet available to the scientific community.

Objective: To provide an overview of available contents in the Portal of Medical Data Models (MDM Portal).

Methods: The MDM Portal is a registered European information infrastructure for research and health care, and its contents are curated and semantically annotated by medical experts.

Next-generation study databases require FAIR, EHR-integrated, and scalable Electronic Data Capture for medical documentation and decision support.

Structured patient data play a key role in all types of clinical research. They are often collected in study databases for research purposes. In order to describe characteristics of a next-generation study database and assess the feasibility of its implementation a proof-of-concept study in a German university hospital was performed.

Portal of Medical Data Models: Application in Federated Data Capture.

So far, the portal for medical data models allows its users to download medical forms in a standardized format. Importing data models into electronic data capture software involved a manual step of downloading and importing the files. Now, the portal was enhanced with a web services interface to allow electronic data capture systems to automatically download the forms.

Federated electronic data capture (fEDC): Architecture and prototype.

In clinical research as well as patient care, structured documentation of findings is an important task. In many cases, this is achieved by means of electronic case report forms (eCRF) using corresponding information technology systems. To avoid double data entry, eCRF systems can be integrated with electronic health records (EHR).