The University Medical Center Göttingen is the first hospital in Germany and the European Union to introduce MDClone's ADAMS platform, the company said. The platform is to build on UMG-MeDIC, the medical center's existing data integration center, with the aim of making the clinical data already gathered there easier and more secure to use for research, patient care and quality management.
MDClone said the ADAMS model is already in use at institutions including UChicago Medicine, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust and Sheba Medical Center. Under it, authorized staff can examine longitudinal clinical data on their own inside a controlled framework, rather than depending on central IT or analytics staff for each analysis. The stated goal is to make data available more quickly for research questions, the further development of treatment pathways, quality improvement and the analysis of clinical processes. A second focus is synthetic data: from real clinical data the platform can produce synthetic datasets that carry the statistical properties of the originals without sharing real patient records, which the company said creates options for research, for building and testing AI applications, and for work with other scientific institutions and external partners.
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Brück, chairman of the executive board and dean of the faculty of medicine at UMG, said the aim is to make the data infrastructure more accessible to staff, and that data can help hospitals understand care processes, spot areas for improvement and advance medical quality and economic efficiency together, which he described as increasingly important in a challenging economic environment. Bruno Lempernesse, chief executive of MDClone, said Germany's Medical Informatics Initiative had laid a strong foundation for the use of clinical data and that the task now is to draw as much value from it as possible for research and patient care. He said healthcare systems internationally are moving from simply supplying data toward active, organization-wide data utilization.
UMG-MeDIC was set up as part of the nationwide Medical Informatics Initiative. With ADAMS, the medical center is adding a utilization layer to that infrastructure for research, patient care and quality management, which it said is intended to give the investments made a lasting effect beyond individual funding periods.
