SMITH’s three university hospitals – in Leipzig, Jena and Aachen – unite medical informatics, clinical, systems-medical, computer linguistics and epidemiological knowledge and expertise. They work hand-in-hand with external partners to develop IT architecture for the interoperable use of data from healthcare and patient-oriented research – data shared across the boundaries of individual institutions and geographical locations. Consortium partners will be able to access and use the results via a special marketplace.

The project's objectives are

• Strengthen the integration of healthcare and clinical research
• Improvement of individual patient care through innovative information technologies and new opportunities for data handling on the basis of process and interoperability standards
• Promotion of a new culture of data sharing
• Enabling of patients to actively participate in healthcare and research
• Adaption of existing curricula to the new challenges