Data Management and Analysis Information and data on health treatment processes, specific treatments, diseases and the individual´s perception of health as well as medical conditions do not only support health care for the individual but, as a collection of data, also contribute to gathering and verifying existing knowledge on how to improve health care for the general public within the scope of health services research.
So for example, heterogeneous data is to be gathered from different data sources, formatted, presented, and evaluated for a comprehensive cancer register. Thereby, a particular role is played by the geographical reference of the data and the possibility to spontaneously phrase and execute analyses if necessary. For this reason, OFFIS develops data-security-compliant basic technologies for the integration, quality management, and further explorative analysis of data, and converts these into concrete application projects for care research – but equally for usage outside of health care. The search in unstructured, often medial data, that plays an important role especially for personal assistance functions in daily life, becomes more important.
Our main topics
The group "Data Management and Analysis" deals with the following main topics in research and service projects:
Within the health services research, data collections can be used to gain new and review existing knowledge to improve health care for the general public. Information and data on treatment processes, specific treatments... Further information
Information Logistics
The provision of infrastructures for integrated information logistics on the basis of data warehousing and semantic retrieval technologies... Further information
Analytical Applications
The development of high-performance analytical procedures and application systems for the evaluation of integrated data sets... Further information
Data Protection & Data Security
Answering organisational and legal questions on data protection, data security and data ownership concepts when using sensitive data... Further information
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AIM+
Automatisiertes Infektionskrankheiten-Meldesystem
(Sorry - this page is only available in German.)
Duration: 2001 - 2003 aniplus+
Informationsplattform zur Optimierung der Tiergesundheit in der Metropolregion Bremen-Oldenburg (sorry - only available in german)
Duration: 2014 - 2015B
BQS-QIMS
Entwicklung eines Qualitätsindikatoren-Management-Systems (QIMS) für die BQS (Sorry - this page is only available in German.)
Duration: 2005 - 2006 BST ELLI
Bertelsmann-Stiftung, European Lifelong Learning Indicators
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CARESS
CARESS Clinical and Epidemiological Cancer Data Warehouse System and Tooling
Duration: 1995 - -0001 CHARE-GD I SP1
Cross-border Health Data Compass as Basis for Comparative Studies (CHDC, SP1) | Teilprojekt von: Comparison of healthcare structures, processes and outcomes in the Northern German and Dutch cross-border region. (Phase I. CHARE-GD I)
Duration: 2021 - 2024 Publications
2025
Bildung einer Kohorte zur Untersuchung der medizinischen Versorgung nach einer Krebserkrankung im Kindes- oder Jugendalter (VersKiK-Kohorte) mittels Record-Linkage zwischen Deutschem Kinderkrebsregister und gesetzlichen Krankenkassen
Hiltrud Merzenich and Peter Ihle and Jutta Küpper-Nybelen and Christian Lüpkes and Claudia Bremensdorfer and Ekaterina Aleshchenko and Christian Apfelbacher and Pietro Trocchi and Dirk Horenkamp-Sonntag and Iris Meier and Patrik Dröge and Thomas Ruhnke and Ursula Marschall and Melanie Klein and Katja Baust and Gabriele Calaminus and Thorsten Langer and Enno Swart and Cecile Ronckers and Claudia Spix; Das Gesundheitswesen; 11 / 2025
Characterising childhood cancer survivors in Germany: A retrospective observational study on demographic, clinical, and healthcare utilisation patterns
Ekaterina Aleshchenko and Pietro Trocchi and Christian Apfelbacher and Katja Baust and Gabriele Calaminus and Patrik Droege and Dirk Horenkamp-Sonntag and Peter Ihle and Melanie Klein and Jutta Kuepper-Nybelen and Thorsten Langer and Christian Luepkes and Ursula Marschall and Hiltrud Merzenich and Thomas Ruhnke and Claudia Spix and Enno Swart and Cecile Ronckers; EJC Paediatric Oncology; 12 / 2025
Clustering Breast Cancer Patients Based on Their Treatment Courses Using German Cancer Registry Data
Blohm, Kolja and Korfkamp, David and Oesterling, Florian and Dählmann, Klaas and Schulze, Stefanie and Hein, Andreas; Methods of Information in Medicine; December / 2025
Development of a new cancer atlas in Lower Saxony using Bayesian smoothing methods
Blohm, Kolja and Beckhaus, Julia and Specht, Sebastian and Urbschat, Iris and Vohmann, Claudia and Lüpkes, Christian and Hübner, Joachim and Kieschke, Joachim and Hein, Andreas; 70. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie e. V. (GMDS); 2025
Evaluation by accessibility index differences of the cross-border potential for general inpatient care in the Ems-Dollart Region, a Dutch-German cross-border area
Specht, Sebastian and Schnack, Helge and Hein, Andreas; Geospatial Health; Aug. / 2025
Hospital attraction measures in times of physician shortages: An analysis of job advertisements
Helge Schnack and Johanna Lubasch and Sarah Anna Katharina Uthoff and Anna Zinkevich and Milena von Kutzleben and Sebastian Specht and Markus Antonius Wirtz and Olaf von dem Knesebeck and Lena Ansmann; International Journal of Healthcare Management; 2025
Recruitment of a cohort to investigate medical follow-up care after childhood cancer: Record-Linkage between the German Childhood Cancer Registry and statutory health insurance companies (VersKiKCohort)
Hiltrud Merzenich and Peter Ihle and Jutta Küpper-Nybelen and Christian Lüpkes and Claudia Bremensdorfer and Ekaterina Aleshchenko and Christian Apfelbacher and Pietro Trocchi and Dirk Horenkamp-Sonntag and Iris Meier and Patrik Dröge and Thomas Ruhnke and Ursula Marschall and Melanie Klein and Katja Baust and Gabriele Calaminus and Thorsten Langer and Enno Swart and Cecile Ronckers and Claudia Spix; Gesundheitswesen; 2025
Small area disease mapping of cancer incidence in Lower Saxony using Bayesian spatial modeling
Kolja Blohm and Julia Beckhaus and Sebastian Specht and Iris Urbschat and Claudia Vohmann and Christian Lüpkes and Joachim Hübner and Joachim Kieschke and Andreas Hein; Abstracts of the 20th Annual Conference of the German Society for Epidemiology (DGEpi) 2025, 23 – 26 September 2025, Münster; 2025
Towards automatic inference of agents for cancer treatment from substance data in cancer registry data
Klaas Dählmann and Timo Wolters and Julia Beckhaus and Markus Sauerberg and Henrik Kusche and Joachim Hübner and Christian Lüpkes and Andreas Hein; 70. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie e. V. (GMDS); 2025
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