Jena, September 11, 2025

The 70th Annual Conference of the German Society for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS) took place in Jena from September 7 to 11, 2025. The Institute of Medical Informatics (IMI) also participated with several contributions.

In a workshop on the research project KI-AIM (AI-based Anonymization in Medicine), Michael Storck, Daniel Preciado-Marquez and Yannik Warnecke from the Medical Data Integration Center (MeDIC) engaged participants in a lively scientific exchange. Funded by the BMFTR since the end of 2022, the project team is developing a platform for the anonymization of large volumes of realistic medical data. These anonymized datasets are intended to support research in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and enable the development of AI-based products for healthcare institutions.

In his talk “Towards Fairness in Synthetic Healthcare Data: A Framework for the Evaluation of Synthetization Algorithms”, Yannik Warnecke also addressed the concept of fairness in the generation of synthetic data for use with AI tools.

Yannik Warnecke further highlighted the potential of AI in oncology with his presentation “Transforming Oncology Data for Artificial Intelligence: Leveraging oBDS for Scalable Medical Research”. His focus was on the oncological basic dataset (oBDS), the nationwide standardized dataset for the documentation of cancer cases in Germany.

Johannes Oehm, also from the MeDIC team, contributed to the scientific program with his presentation “Towards a FHIR Specification for Research in Ophthalmology: Designing the EyeMatics Core Data Set for Multi-centric Data Integration.” He reported on the development of a standardized core dataset for ophthalmology within the EyeMatics research project. The aim is to use the international FHIR standard (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) to make research data from different clinics more comparable and usable across multiple sites.