3. Funding period (NUM 3.0): 2025–2030
NUM-Projects of the 3. funding period at the MHH
Department / Institute: Emergency Department
The AKTIN-Notaufnahmeregister is a standardized electronic infrastructure that makes electronically collected data from emergency admissions available for health reporting, quality assurance, and health services research. The special features of the registry are the use of routine data without additional effort for the treating staff and the decentralized infrastructure, which allows the data to be stored in the individual clinics and thus in the context of the treatment.
The aim of the AKTIN-Notaufnahmeregister is to optimize quality management in emergency departments and to improve/accelerate data availability for health reporting and health services research in acute and emergency medicine.
As part of the NUM 3.0 research project (infrastructure line) the ongoing operation of the network is funded at the participating locations.
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Department / Institute: Hannover Unified Biobank
The NUM-MB will provide all researchers and infrastructures in the NUM with comprehensive, easily accessible and needs-based support on methodology, biospecimens and specific aspects of regulation throughout the entire course of the study.
Starting with (I) study planning, the NUM-MB offers methodological advice on data and biosamples, including their preparation and utilisation. We also advise on the presentation of data protection and infrastructural aspects as well as NUM governance in patient records in the respective regulatory context.
As part of (II) study implementation , the NUM-MB ensures rapid support from a central helpdesk. In addition, training and counselling is offered, e.g. on amendments and training on SOPs. The BCU managers also carry out quality assurance audits at the NUM sites that collect biosamples.
As a member of the (III) (dynamic) Use and Access Committee (UAC), NUM-MB supports the release process, e.g. of biosamples, and advises applicants on the UAC.
More information can be found on the website:
https://www.netzwerk-universitaetsmedizin.de/en/platforms/num-mb
Department / Institute: Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology
The goal of NUM-SAR is to structurally secure the capacities of university hospitals and make them more readily available to the public health system and the Robert Koch Institute (RKI). NUM-SAR is an efficient network of expert laboratories for various pathogen and outbreak situations, complementing the laboratories of the public health service.
The sub-project MuSE is a university hospital monitoring infrastructure for collecting and evaluating parameters related to care, quality and infection. MuSE also provides this data to the Robert Koch Institute as a sentinel surveillance system. The data includes infection medicine parameters related to hospital-acquired infection epidemiology, care and patient safety, staff health and workload, as well as inpatient care quality and resources. The definition and implementation of suitable adaptive parameters, their scientific application and coordinated processing are realized within MuSE.
Department / Institute: Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology
RACOON is a nationwide research infrastructure within the Network University Medicine (NUM). RACOON was established during the COVID-19 pandemic in the first NUM funding phase to systematically collect radiological imaging data from German university hospitals and make them available for research projects. Centrally managed imaging data can be analyzed with regard to a wide range of research questions, both statistically and using artificial intelligence.
The third NUM funding phase enables further development and optimization of RACOON based on experiences from the first funding phases, like the RACOON-RESCUE project, while simultaneously laying foundation for additional cross-university, interdisciplinary research projects. With currently around 600 staff members from 38 university hospitals, RACOON shows steady growth. In addition, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine (MEVIS), Mint Medical GmbH, ImFusion GmbH, and Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (IKIM) in Essen are permanent research and development partners in RACOON.
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