MII SU-TermServ

SU-TermServ @ GMDS 2025

2025-09-07

The SU-TermServ is pleased that we have the opportunity to present our work at this year’s annual conference of the German Society for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS). Our paper titled Implementation of HL7 FHIR-Based Terminology Services for a National Federated Health Research Infrastructure is available in the conference proceedings, and the slides can be found below We are also very pleased that the work Covhisto: A Web Application for Cross-Version Visualizatio...

MedInfo 2025

2025-08-13

Tessa Ohlsen from the Service Unit Terminological Services (SU-TermServ) had the privilege of giving a talk at this year’s MedInfo 2025 in Taipei, Taiwan. MedInfo 2025 will take place from 9 to 13 August. It is organised by the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) and the Taiwan Association for Medical Informatics (TAMI). The papers and slides of the talk are available in the publication list.

MIE 2025

2025-05-19

Tessa Ohlsen and Joshua Wiedekopf from the Service Unit Terminological Services (SU-TermServ) had the privilege of giving talks at this year’s MIE 2025 in Glasgow, Scotland. The MIE 2025 takes place from May 19 to 22 and is organized by the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI). The papers and slides of the talks are available in the publication list.

DMEA - Satellite Event 2025 by GMDS and BVMI

2025-04-07

Tessa Ohlsen and Joshua Wiedekopf from the Service Unit Terminological Services (SU-TermServ), and Julian Saß from the Berlin Institute of Health have organized a session for the Working Group Medical Terminologies and Classifications of the GMDS at this year’s DMEA Satellite Event. The satellite event takes place prior to the DMEA 2025, on April 7, and is jointly organized by the GMDS and the BVMI. The slides from the talks (🇩🇪) are available below.

Online Workshop & Video Material

2025-03-11

Tl;dr The workshop is held on Friday, 28th March 2025 13:00–14:30 via Zoom. Please register via e-mail. The videos are available here. Dear colleagues, We would like to invite you to the workshop “Central Terminology Server for MII & NUM” on Friday, March 28, 2025, from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM. The workshop will be held as an online conference. This year, we have decided to pursue a different concept for the workshop. Our team has provided extensive teaching materi...

HL7 Germany FHIR and Terminology Community Days 2024

2024-12-05

Download practical exercise The Postman collection is available on GitLab. The certificate is available here until Wednesday. At the FHIR and Terminology Community Days, organized by HL7 Germany, SU-TermServ will be represented with a contribution. The focus of the presentation will be on the terminology servers provided by SU-TermServ, which are of central importance for the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) and the Network of University Medicine (NUM) in partic...

The new production server of the SU-TermServ

2024-11-12

Since November 11, 2024, the new production server of Service Unit Terminological Services (SU-TermServ) is operational. With this, the SU-TermServ now provides a powerful platform for delivering terminology services within the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) and the Network of University Medicine (NUM). The new server is accessible at the address https://ontoserver.mii-termserv.de/fhir 🔐 for FHIR clients. Previously, SU-TermServ provided services at the address https://terminology-hig...

Balloting of the central MII terminology server

2024-09-04

In recent years, the central terminology server for the MII, which is operated by the SU-TermServ, has been available at the address https://terminology-highmed.medic.medfak.uni-koeln.de/fhir. The server was created within the HiGHmed project. With the start of the current funding phase of the MII in January 2023, an independent 2b project was established to professionalize the operation of this server and to expand the target audience to the entire MII and NUM. We are pleased to finally pre...

Workshop 'Ontoserver' in July 2024

2024-06-27

On Wednesday, July 10, 2024, a workshop on the topic “Central Terminology Server for MII & NUM: Actual state in 2024” took place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The slides are now available below: Session Topic Speaker Slides 1 Introduction: Service Unit Terminological Services & FHIR terminology resources and services Josef Ingenerf 2 Introduction to Ontoserver: Ontoserver impl...

Publication of the book "Referenzterminologie SNOMED CT"

2024-01-26

I am pleased to announce the publication of our (German-language) textbook “Referenzterminologie SNOMED CT - Interlingua zur Gewährleistung semantischer Interoperabilität in der Medizin” (SNOMED CT Reference Terminology - Interlingua for Ensuring Semantic Interoperability in Medicine) published by Springer! 🎉 Since its licensing in Germany in 2021, SNOMED CT has been playing an increasing role in the digitization of healthcare, among other things in connection with the establishment of HL7 F...

Terminology Server Challenge @ GMDS 2023

2023-07-17

During the 68th annual conference of the German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS), the GMDS 2023, the GMDS working group Medizinische Terminologien und Klassifikationen (Medical Terminologies and Classsifications, MTK), together with the SU-TermServ, is organising a terminology server challenge. The Terminology Server Challenge is taking place on Thursday, the 21th of September from 09:00 to approx. 16:00 in Room T.1.52. We are looking forward to your pa...

Workshop 'Ontoserver' in June 2023

2023-06-08

A workshop on “Using and Accessing a Terminology Server in the NUM-RDP Project” was held on Wednesday, June 28, 2023 from 10 am to 1 pm. Programme Block Topic Speaker Slides 1 Josef Ingenerf (University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein) Keynote 2 Lukas Emmerich (Healex GmbH) Introduction to Terminologies 3 Muhammad Adnan (University Medical Center Cologne ...

Project meeting in April 2023

2023-04-06

From April 5th to April 6th, 2023, the team of the Service Unit Terminological Services (SU-TermServ) has meet in Lübeck for a working meeting and strategy workshop. One-and-a-half days have been filled with extremely productive talks, to be able to offer the best services possible to partners in the Medical Informatics Iniatitive and the Network University Medicine in the new grant phase. front row: Ana Grönke, Muhammad Adnan, Samer Alkarkoukly, René Tielsch-Nebel ...

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