MII participates in the cocos initiative
14.05.2020 12:40
In recent weeks, leading players in the healthcare sector have come together to form the Cocos initiative (Corona Component Standards). The aim of the initiative is to establish uniform data formats and standards for interoperability for Covid-related data and their merging.
During the Corona pandemic, which poses major challenges for our healthcare system, the science, tech and startup scenes are currently developing a variety of independent solutions to research and deal with Covid-19. The cocos initiative wants to ensure that the many creative and good approaches come together and thus become more effective.
Initiated by the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KBV), the health innovation hub (hih) of the Federal Ministry of Health and Health Level 7 (HL7) Germany, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArm) together with The German Institute for Medical Documentation and Information (DIMDI), the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII), the University Medicine Network and the Federal Association of Health IT (bvitg) have joined the model initiative as active participants. The number of supporting organizations in this lighthouse cooperation, such as gematik, IHE Germany, the Interoperability Forum, etc., continues to grow.
The aim of the cocos initiative is to establish uniform data formats and standards for interoperability for Covid-related data and their merging, thereby offering users, developers and researchers a basis on which they can work together and interoperably.
The cocos.team platform can be used to view standard recommendations that have already been developed and to propose new standards that can be used to develop solutions against Corona and make it easier to combine data for research purposes, among other things. The first definitions available via cocos include the basic profiles of the KBV, modules of the core data set of the Medical Informatics Initiative as well as Covid-specific information, for example from GECCO or FHIR resources from HL7 Germany and the RKI profiles for the electronic SARS-CoV- 2-pathogen detection report, further definitions will follow.