University Hospital Düsseldorf

The University Hospital Düsseldorf (UKD) is the largest hospital in the state capital and one of the most important medical centres in North Rhine-Westphalia. The 9,300 employees at UKD and its subsidiaries are committed to providing inpatient treatment for over 45,000 patients and outpatient care for 270,000 patients every year. The UKD stands for international excellence in patient care, research and teaching, as well as innovative and safe diagnostics, therapy and prevention. Patients benefit from the intensive interdisciplinary cooperation between the 60 clinics and institutes. The university hospital's particular strength lies in the close integration of clinical practice and research for the safe application of new methods. The medicine of tomorrow is being developed at the UKD. Every day.

Projects

NUM DIZ 3.0

The NUM-DIZ project of the Network of University Medicine (NUM) builds on the preliminary work of the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII), within which Data Integration Centres (DIZ) have been established at most German academic medical centers with the aim of supporting data provision and cross-site data integration and analysis. [...]

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NUM-RDP

The NUM Routine Data Platform (NUM-RDP) project aims to provide a generic routine data platform. "Routine data" here means clinical routine documentation data from patient care. In the first funding period, the NUM added the option of centralised, cross-institutional data consolidation, storage and output to the existing structures of the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) for federated data storage and analysis. [...]

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Open Medical Inference (OMI)

The Open Medical Inference (OMI) platform aims to enable the discovery and use of remote AI services. OMI will develop open medical inference protocols and data formats for the semantically interoperable peer-to-peer exchange of multimodal healthcare data and remote AI inference. To this end, a repository of German-wide services will be established with an initial selection of multimodal AI models in order to enable researchers, through Medical Data Integration Centers of German University Hospitals, to access and run the developed AI models remotely.

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NUM-Codex plus

Development of a nationwide standardised, data protection-compliant infrastructure for the storage and provision of COVID-19 research datasets. Among other things, a comprehensive database, data collection tools, use & access procedures and a trust centre are planned. [...]

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