Secondary use of supply data

for researchers at the MHH

If you are conducting research at the MHH and would like to use MHH healthcare data in this context, the following three data sources are available to you for internal data use. You can use the respective "Overview of available data" to check which source(s) are suitable for your research.
- Data integration center(for an overview of available data - link only available internally)
- Clinical data warehouse(for an overview of available data - link only available internally)
- Exports from the primary systems.

Depending on the planned data use (use cases), the processes differ, which are described below.

 

Use cases

Feasibility request

Data use: Based on the data available in the Data Integration Center or Clinical Data Warehouse, you would like to assess whether a study you are planning at the MHH appears feasible. This may be, for example, the question of how many patients have met your inclusion criteria in recent years or what data is available on a particular cohort.

 

Support for study recruitment

Data usage: You would like to receive notifications about suitable patients for your study based on the data available in the Data Integration Center (only possible for inpatients).

The Data Integration Center is currently piloting a solution for this. If you are interested, please contact fdm@mh-hannover.de

 

Data provision or enrichment

Data use: You would like to receive a data export for your research project.

In this case, the procedure depends on the existing legal basis. (Legal basis = basis that authorizes you to use the data)

  • The legal basis for the processing and use of the data is the informed consent of the patients concerned, which you obtain as part of your research project (e.g. study or registry). The Data Integration Center then only serves as a technical tool to compile this data: Simply contact fdm@mh-hannover.de with your request. No data access agreement or similar is necessary.
  • The legal basis for the use of the data is broad consent. For data from the Data Integration Center as well as for data from the Clinical Data Warehouse, please use the workflow via the data access agreement
  • The legal basis for the use of the data is the Health Data Utilization Act (GDNG), which can also enable in-house research without informed consent. If you are unsure whether this is a possible legal basis for your project, please contact the data protection officer (link only available internally). To request data, please also use the workflow via the data access agreement