POLAR_MI is a cross-consortium use case within the Medical Informatics Initiative. Digital networking is intended to improve research and care for patients receiving multiple medications and to increase drug therapy safety. The aim of the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) is to enable research opportunities and patient care through innovative IT solutions. These are intended to promote the exchange and use of data from healthcare, clinical, and biomedical research across institutional and geographical boundaries. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is funding the MII with around 160 million euros until 2021. In the four consortia DIFUTURE, HiGHmed, MIRACUM, and SMITH, all university medical institutions in Germany at over 30 locations are working together with research institutions, companies, health insurance companies, and patient representatives to develop the framework conditions so that research findings can reach patients directly. Data protection and data security are given the highest priority. The POLAR_MI project is managed by the University of Leipzig and, on its behalf, by the University Hospital Jena.
Further information is available at https://www.medizininformatik-initiative.de/index.php/de/POLAR.
