Herding Cats in Pandemic Times - Towards Technological and Organizational Convergence of Heterogeneous Solutions for Investigating and Mastering the Pandemic in University Medical Centers

Dagmar Krefting, Nico T. Mutters, Rüdiger Pryss, Martin Sedlmayr, Martin Boeker, Christoph Dieterich, Carolin Koll, Martina Mueller, Anna Slagman, Dagmar Waltemath, Antje Wulf, Sven Zenker

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Abstract

To understand and handle the COVID-19 pandemic, digital tools and infrastructures were built in very short timeframes, resulting in stand-alone and non-interoperable solutions. To shape an interoperable, sustainable, and extensible ecosystem to advance biomedical research and healthcare during the pandemic and beyond, a short-term project called "Collaborative Data Exchange and Usage" (CODEX+) was initiated to integrate and connect multiple COVID-19 projects into a common organizational and technical framework. In this paper, we present the conceptual design, provide an overview of the results, and discuss the impact of such a project for the trade-off between innovation and sustainable infrastructures.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1271-1275
Number of pages5
JournalStudies in Health Technology and Informatics
Volume310
DOIs
StatePublished - 25 Jan 2024
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • COVID-19
  • data sharing
  • interoperability
  • real world data
  • research data infrastructures

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