Researcher of MIKI, Luisa Mejia had the privilege of participating in the Doctoral Seminar associated with the Carlos V European Award – European Disability Forum, held at the historic Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe in Extremadura from December 16-18, 2025. Along with 9 other researchers, Luisa was honoured to receive the Doctoral Thesis […]
This winter, an innovative Design Thinking and co-creation training brought together Developers from MIKI, Psychoteraphists from UKSH ZIP and Gamification experts from CAU Digital Marketing to develop a mental health project for teenagers in Kiel. The collaborative initiative marks a significant step forward in addressing youth mental health through interdisciplinary partnership and human-centered design. The […]
The Institute of Medical Informatics and Statistics (IMIS), section Medical Informatics (MIKI), has advanced its international collaboration with Colombia through site visits supporting the COALA project (Colombian-German Scientific Alliance for the Advancement of Interoperability in Medicine). Prof. Dr. Björn Schreiweis and researcher Luisa Mejia conducted a four-day visit to four institutions in Bogota: UNICOC, El […]
From August 9 to 13, 2025, the 20th MedInfo Conference took place in Taipei (Taiwan), where the Medical Informatics Section of the Institute for Medical Informatics and Statistics (IMIS) was represented with two contributions.
During Kiel Week, Prof. Dr. Leonardo Juan Ramírez López visited our institution as a representative of the Universidad Militar Nueva Granada (UMNG) and the Central Military Hospital of Colombia.Dr. Ramírez is a full-time professor for bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral programs and specializes in innovation and research methodology in medical informatics. He is an experienced researcher […]
19.05.2024 Luisa Mejia and Professor Björn Schreiweis attended the Medical Informatics Europe conference in Glasgow, where Ms. Mejia presented her paper “Mind the Gap: Design Thinking and Human-Centered Design for eHealth Applications – Insights from Vulnerable Populations in a Scoping Review.” In it, she examined how human-centered design (HCD) and design thinking (DT) methods are […]
The two consortia MIRACUM and DIFUTURE of the German Medical Informatics Initiatives (MII) invited the MII junior research groups to apply for the Junior Research Group Award for their joint symposium 2024 on October 10 and 11 in Munich. IMPETUS was one of the four finalists who were invited to present their work at the […]
MIKI was represented at this year’s Medical Informatics Europe (MIE) conference of the European Foundation of Medical Informatics (EFMI) in Athens with a total of six contributions. Ka Yung Cheng, Benjamin Kinast, Michael Anywar, Mario Macedo, Hannes Ulrich, and Björn Schreiweis traveled to Athens to present their work. The photo shows the Schleswig-Holstein delegation with […]
The University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH) is proud to announce that its innovative KULT-SH project has been awarded the National Telemedicine Prize 2024. This prize is awarded by the German Society for Telemedicine e.V. and recognizes innovative projects that make an outstanding contribution to telemedicine and the improvement of healthcare. “This award recognizes our commitment […]
During a retreat in the beautiful location of Howacht at the seaside, the MIKI team got together to gain focus, re-connect, and discuss the strategy, vision, and long-term goals of the group. This beautiful location was a great opportunity to strengthen cooperation between team members and groups, as well as integrate new members.
This year’s MEDINFO, the biennial conference of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), took place from July 8-12 in Sydney, Australia. MIKI had three papers that were presented at the conference. The papers were all related to MeDIC and IMPETUS. The titles of the papers are Large-Scale Standardized Image Integration for Secondary Use Research Projects, […]
Berlin, 25.04.2023 Björn Schreiweis and Luisa Mejia presented the project KULT-SH at DMEA, the largest European conference and trade fair for digital health. Contributions and best-practice examples from different perspectives were presented and discussed to give an impression of the status and perspectives of telemedicine solutions in Germany and abroad. KULT SH is a project […]
For the Christmas event in 2022, the MIKI team went for a very fast-paced and entertaining afternoon of shooting in the indoor laser tag in Kiel. It was a very sporty event with lots of fun for everyone.
Heidelberg, 29.11.2022. The development and networking phase of the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) and thus also of the HiGHmed project expires at the end of 2022. At the same time, the expansion and extension phase will begin in January 2023. For this reason, HiGHmed e.V. invited all HiGHmed partners to an internal HiGHmed Summit in […]
From November 8-10, 2022, the MIKI team participated in pHealth 2022 in Oslo, represented by Björn Schreiweis, Santiago Pazmino and Ka Yung Cheng. Santiago Pazmino presented a publication on the current research on the ETL tools and architecture at UKSH, which was conducted as part of the HiGHmed project.
The joint annual conference of the German Society for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS) e.V. and the Technology and Methods Platform for Networked Medical Research (TMF) e.V. took place from August 21 to 25, 2022. The GMDS-TMF annual conference was chaired by Prof. Dr. Björn Bergh (conference president GMDS) and Prof. Dr. Michael Krawczak […]
As part of the joint annual conference of the German Society for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS) e.V. and the Technology and Methods Platform for Networked Medical Research (TMF) e.V., the GMDS and Björn Schreiweis recorded the presentation of the GMDS Consumer Health Informatics (CHI) working group, of which Björn Schreiweis is deputy head. […]
The joint annual conference of the German Society for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS) e.V. and the Technology and Methods Platform for Networked Medical Research (TMF) e.V. took place from September 26 to 30, 2021. Originally, this event was to be held in the presence in Kiel and was therefore under the direction of […]
On September 1, 2021, the BMBF-funded junior research group IMPETUS started in MIKI. The junior research group aims to expand knowledge management and in particular the HiGHmed platform developed in HiGHmed for alphanumeric data to include multimedia data and objects. Under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Björn Schreiweis, the platform will be expanded accordingly to […]
Since May 15, 2021, Prof. Dr. Björn Schreiweis has held the newly created W2 professorship for Medical Informatics in the Medical Informatics Section of the Institute of Medical Informatics and Statistics. We wish him much success and enjoyment in his new tasks and look forward to continuing our collaboration as a team.
This year our team managed to win gold for the most kilometers cycled per team member in the category “Universities/Universities of Applied Sciences” (certificate). Many thanks to all the participants, that’s something to be proud of! Photo Statistics (universities/colleges)
The 4th Healthcare Hackathon Kiel took place on June 5 as a purely virtual competition of ideas at the UKSH. In various challenges, hackers, idea providers, professors, doctors, start-ups, and sponsors worked hand in hand to present their idea to Health Minister Jens Spahn at the Healthcare Innovation Hub (hih) in Berlin in January 2021. […]
On Friday, February 21, 2020, the Consumer Health Informatics Working Group (WG) (CHI) of the German Society for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology e.V. (GMDS) met for its annual working meeting at the premises of ZTG GmbH in Bochum. The meeting aimed to continue the previous scientific and practice-oriented exchange, to discuss current developments, and […]
The MIKI team ventured onto the ice for the 2019 Christmas team event. They tried out curling for an hour at the Stadtwerke Eisfestival of the city of Kiel. It was great fun for everyone in a friendly atmosphere.
Our team “MIKI & Friends” won silver in the Kiel city cycling competition for the most kilometers cycled per team member in the category “Universities/Colleges” (certificate)!
GMDS AG Consumer Health Informatics is MI Team of the Year 2019 The GMDS Consumer Health Informatics working group led by Dr. Monika Pobiruchin, Veronika Strotbaum and Dr. Björn Schreiweis was named MI Team of the Year 2019 by the GMDS Medical Informatics Division at the 64th GMDS Annual Conference in Dortmund.
The UKSH’s artificial intelligence project proposal as part of KI-SIGS has been nominated for participation in the implementation phase.
The MIKI team was represented by Björn Schreiweis, Tobias Bronsch, and Björn Bergh at MedInfo Lyon. Tobias Bronsch presented a poster from the context of the HiGHmed project and discussed the results of current research regarding the integration of openEHR at the UKSH.
As part of the 3rd HiGHmed Symposium and the HiGHmed Annual Meeting 2019, a large part of the MIKI team traveled to Heidelberg to exchange ideas with the HiGHmed partners. On June 3, 2019, the HiGHmed Symposium focused on the topic of “Electronic health records – models for a national system”. Björn Bergh presented a […]
On November 12, 2018, the Health IT Forum at the Medica trade fair in Düsseldorf focused on the topic of artificial intelligence in hospitals as part of a panel. Together with representatives from industry and science, Dr. Björn Schreiweis discussed possible applications of artificial intelligence in patient care as well as its influence on the […]
The MIKI team was represented by Heike Lehmann and Björn Schreiweis at the GMDS Annual Conference 2018 in Osnabrück. Björn Schreiweis reported in an update session on what has happened in electronic patient records in the last year. Together with colleagues from the GMDS Consumer Health Informatics working group and the Department of Epidemiology, he […]
From September 1, 2018, the University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH) and the Faculty of Medicine at Kiel University will be new partners in the HiGHmed consortium. To this end, a Medical Data Integration Center will be set up at the UKSH and the cardiology use case will be implemented as an example. Further information can be […]
Dr. Björn Schreiweis presented the HiGHmed project and the knowledge management environment planned for the UKSH at the 3rd BVMI training congress.
From April 24-26, 2018, the medical informatics community met in Gothenburg for the Medical Informatics Europe Conference with the overarching theme “Building Continents of Knowledge in Oceans of Data: The Future of Co-Created eHealth”. MI-KI was represented by Björn Bergh and Björn Schreiweis. Together with the GMDS AG Consumer Health Informatics (CHI), Björn Schreiweis led […]
On 01.04.2018, the Section of Medical Informatics was newly founded with the appointment of Prof. Dr. med. He was joined by Tobias Bronsch and Prof. Dr. sc. hum. Björn Schreiweis came to Kiel from Heidelberg.
In episode #63 of the eHealth podcast, Björn Schreiweis is our guest and gives an introduction to openEHR. The eHealth podcast is recorded every 14 days by Christian Wache, Renato Dambe and Bernhard Breil and deals with news and current topics in health and medical informatics.
Digitality@Heidelberg lecture series: Citizen participation in healthcare Digitalität@Heidelberg: Bürgerbeteiligung im Gesundheitswesen
Björn Schreiweis has completed his doctorate. The dissertation is entitled “Cross-institutional patient recruitment system – conception and system architecture”.
Konstantin Kinzel receives first place for the best master’s thesis “Use of data glasses for outpatient wound documentation using the example of Google Glass” at conhIT 2016. He developed an application in the Department of General, Visceral, and Transplant Surgery at the University of Heidelberg that deals with the standardized documentation and presentation of the […]
The publication “Comparison of electronic health record system functionalities to Support the patient recruitment process in clinical trials” by Björn Schreiweis was included in the Best Paper Selection in the IMIA Yearbook 2015 in the topic area “Clinical Research Informatics”.
The EHR Navigator project – mobile access to IHE-based, cross-institutional, electronic patient records – has won the TELEMED Award 2012. The authors include Oliver Heinze, Holger Schmuhl, Peter Moll and Prof. Dr. Björn Bergh.
The STENO project – Standardised Transfer of Emergency Protocols – has won second place in this year’s Baden-Württemberg Goes Mobile Award. The authors include Markus Birkle, Benjamin Schneider, Peter Moll, and Prof. Dr. Björn Bergh.
The EHR Navigator – an app for IHE access to the eEPA – has won first place in this year’s Baden-Württemberg Goes Mobile Award. The authors include Oliver Heinze, Holger Schmuhl, Peter Moll, and Prof. Dr. Björn Bergh.
Gevher Agbektas was awarded first place for the best bachelor thesis “Prototypical design of user interfaces of a patient portal for a personal, cross-institutional, electronic patient file” at this year’s conhIT.
Markus Birkle won the TELEMED Award 2010 (National Forum for Health Telematics and Telemedicine) for the presentation and publication entitled “Development of an electronic consent management system for intersectoral information systems”. Oliver Heinze and Prof Dr Björn Bergh were also involved in the publication.
Prof. Dr. Björn Bergh has been named “Influencer of the Year 2010” in the StrategyCircle healthcare sector.
The INFOPAT project is a winner of the BMBF competition “Health Region of the Future”
Oliver Heinze won the TELEMED Award 2008 (National Forum for Health Telematics and Telemedicine) for the presentation and publication entitled “Development of a cross-institutional patient file in the Rhine-Neckar region” (). Antje Brandner and Prof Dr Björn Bergh were also involved in the publication.
