Department of Medical Informatics at GMDS 2026

From September 27 to October 1, 2026, the 71st Annual Meeting of the German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS) will be held in Freiburg im Breisgau, jointly with the 47th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics (ISCB).

The ISCB-GMDS-2026 conference, together with the SFB Small Data Symposium, provides a scientific platform for exchanging ideas on exciting developments, such as the rise of AI techniques and the heightened public awareness of the value of data.

The Department of Medical Informatics is once again represented with numerous contributions and is bringing its expertise to the scientific discussion.

Monday, September 28, 2026

Poster Session: Digital Health and Data Systems

9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

• From (Data) Standards to Interoperability: Empirical Insights into Good Health Data Modeling (L Elgert, J Richter, J Fleßner, D Liehr, M Katzensteiner, M Pape, N Schulz, D Krefting, F Koppelin, OJ Bott, KH Wolf)
• Developing a Cross-Research-Area Basic Data Set: A Coordinated Approach to Metadata Standardization and Harmonization within DZKJ (P Soloveva, S Brandt-Heunemann, A Ketabi, R Kossen, S Hanß, F Radicke, M Vogel, M Reichert, HA Kestler)
• From Data to Discovery: The Collaborative Research Datamanagement Platform for the German Center for Child and Adolescent Health (A Ketabi, S Brandt-Heunemann, F Hähner, S Hanß, R Kossen, M Manzke, P Soloveva, F Ückert, D Krefting)
• Recurring Challenges in Laboratory Material Management in Biomedical Research: Lessons from menoci Development (SA Smolorz, K Saldeitis, RM Giese, C Henke, SY Nussbeck, U Sax, H Kusch)

Poster Session: AI and Biomedical Data

9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

• Explainable Graph Neural Networks for detecting myocardial infarction from 12-lead ECGs (MC Maurer, P Hempel, K Steinhaus, H Chereda, M Vollmer, D Krefting, N Spicher, AC Hauschild)

Oral Session: Frameworks for Clinical Research

11:00 – 11:15 a.m.

• ACRIBiS: Current Progress in Biosignal Data Integration and AI-Ready Infrastructure (L Graf, M Oremek, S Zenker, D Krefting)

Oral Session: Semantic Health Data and Meta-Research

11:00 – 11:15 a.m.

• Extending the W3C Data Privacy Vocabulary (DPV) to cover the German Health Data Use Act (GDNG) – Lessons Learned (J Flake, C Henke, M Löbe, AS Kuntz, HJ Pandit, C Draeger)

Oral Session: Health Data Infrastructure and Secondary Data Use

13:30 – 13:45 p.m.

• The European Health Data Space and the Secondary Use of Sensitive Health Data (S Sriram, SY Huei, M Haucke, U Sax)

13:45 – 14:00 p.m.

• Enabling the flexible integration of trusted third party tools in OSSE registries – a technical case report (J Vasseur, J Göbel, A Zieschank, S Hanß, A Pelz, H Storf)

Oral Session: Digital Health Education and Transformation

16:15 – 16:30 p.m.

• Assessing Biases and Discrimination in German Medical Informatics (MR Muzoora, C Kemda Ngueda, J Oehm, T Brix, CB Behrend, AS Kuntz, M Schaarschmidt, M Poikela, S Thun, CN Vorisek)

Tuesday, September 29, 2026

Poster Session: Digital Health and Data Systems
09:00 a.m. – 15:00 p.m.

• Towards Transparent and Automated Governance of Biomedical Data Use Agreements (F Seyderhelm, J Richter, S Hanß, D Krefting)
• Developing Computable Phenotypes for Pancreatic Cancer (T Klaaßen, S Rheinländer, N Beyer, C Ammer-Herrmenau, H Kusch, U Sax)

Poster Session: Prediction and Personalized Medicine

09:00 a.m. – 15:00 p.m.

• Refining Post-COVID Syndrome Assessment: Distinct Symptom Domains Are Linked to Acute Disease Severity and Resilience (AK Ruß, S Ballhausen-Lübcker, W Lieb, A Schäfer, L Krist, K Rabe, W Maetzler, C Maetzler, M Laudien, D Frank, J Heyckendorf, O Miljukov, KG Haeusler, NE El Mokhtari, M Witzenrath, JJ Vehreschild, K Appel, I Chaplinskaya-Sobol, C Nürnberger, L Schmidbauer, C

Workshop

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

• On the Ethical and Technical Aspects for Deployment and Evaluation of AI-Driven Clinical Decision Support Systems (Z Ritter, S Rühlicke, S Fudickar, A Koop, M Sprang, S Trivedi, R Roller, S Moazemi, RE Martín-Peña, SF Rashid, G Botea)

11:47 – 11:54 a.m.

• Navigating the Ethical Landscape of Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Applications: The Role of Algorithmic Impact Assessment Tool (S Trivedi)

Oral Session: Research-Ready Data Integration and Software Workflows

14:00 – 14:15 p.m.

• The DZHK Feasibility Explorer: Supporting Cohort Discovery and Feasibility Assessment for Cardiovascular Research (EM Rieß, R Kossen, D Krefting, KA Molina, H Scheel, S Hanß)

Kick-Off der AG EHDS

15:30 – 17:30 p.m.

• Kick-Off der GMDS Projektgruppe European Health Data Space (EHDS) (Sebastian Semler, Christian Hinske, Ulrich Sax)

Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Workshop: 

09:00 – 10:30 and 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

• AI-driven therapeutic modelling in Biomedical Informatics (Organizer: U. Sax, T. Beißbarth, B. Löhnhardt, Speaker: K. Bozek, M. Robinson, A. Skubala, N. Beerenwinkel)

Poster Session: Digital Health and Data Systems

09:00 a.m. – 17:30 p.m.

• Patients Voices in Somnolink: Key Findings from an Advisory Board Meeting (S Trivedi, S Schicktanz, P Zaschke, D Krefting, C Schöbel, T Penzel)

Poster Session: Prediction and Personalized Medicine

09:00 a.m. – 17:30 p.m.

• EHR-Based Identification of Polyneuropathy and Myopathy Patients (EF Nyoungui, S Ahmed, N Truong, H Wedemeyer, V Schuster, R Mayer, D Krefting, J Zschüntzsch, R Röttger)

Poster Session: Causal Methods and Epidemiology

09:00 a.m. – 17:30 p.m.

• Examples of bias in data from translational research (EM Jentsch, U Sax, J Hügel, S Rheinländer, N Beyer, E Hessmann)

Oral Session: Federated Health Data Systems

12:15 – 12:30 p.m.

• A Multi-site Dashboard for Evaluating HiGHmed Cardiovascular Sensor Data from Apple Watch (OK Yusuf, T Steinbrinker, S Hanß, K Jörß, J Richter, T Zeppernick, KK Werle, E Tute, R Freund, G Fette, U Bavendiek, D Grosse-Meininghaus, S Störk, D Krefting)

12:15 – 12:30 p.m.

• Personalized PREdiction of Transplant ToxicitY through federated learning from data, expert opinions and patient perspectives (PRETTY)(Y Alwie, D Ammon, P Anand, AC Angleitner, M Fleischmann, GN Franke, H Fu, M Heuser, I Hilgendorf, F Jahn, T Kacprowski, T Kesztyues, LP Müller, E Niazmand, S Oeltze-Jafra, J Schaffrath, D Tiller, T Wendt, G Wulf, G Xi)

Workshop

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

• AI supported Data Retrieval and Data Management in the Health Domain (M Golebiewski, C Bönisch, H Kusch, M Löbe, G ERTAYLAN, W Müller, KM Otto, P Hempel)

11:15 a.m. – 12:05 p.m.

• Explainable Artificial Intelligence on Biosignals for Clinical Decision Support (P Hempel, D Krefting)

MBSV Working Group Meeting

12:30–13:15 p.m.

• Meeting of the GMDS Working Group on Medical Image and Signal Processing (MBSV) (Dagmar Krefting, Behrus Puladi)

You can access the full conference program via the event website: iscbgmds2026.info