Contact partner for networked medical research

An efficient, high-quality infrastructure is a major precondition for cutting-edge research. The principal aim of the TMF is therefore to improve the organization and infrastructure for networked medical research, i.e. clinical, epidemiological and translational research.

The network not only focuses on legal and ethical frameworks for networked medical research but also on the development of IT infrastructure, quality management activities for science-initiated trials and questions on the intermeshing of research and patient care.

Under the umbrella organization of the TMF, expert opinions, studies, concepts, requirements specifications, services and tools are created. The products of the cooperation within the TMF are available to the research community.

Changing the way we understand healthcare and medicine

An expert discussion about the European EHR4CR-project and the future of clinical research in Europe.

January 2012. “The present agenda focuses on the prospective study model. It assumes that we want to find a recruitment pool of patients and from that a group of hundreds, maximum thousands, we want to study and identify the effectiveness and safety of new medicines. But the ability to actually study millions alters the landscape.” Prof. Dipak Kalra

“I'm not saying that what we're creating is the medical equivalent of Google – but we hope it will have those unanticipated benefits.” Peter Singleton

Europeans Jointly Promote Future Use of Data from Electronic Health Records for Research

TMF workshop on ethical and legal aspects of cross-border secondary use of treatment data

January 12, 2012. Up to 2014, within the scope of the European project "Electronic Health Records for Clinical Research" (EHR4CR), partners from academic research and industry will be jointly establishing a Europe-wide technology platform that aims to allow secondary use of data from electronic health records for the purpose of clinical research. Today and tomorrow, lawyers, ethics specialists, and data protection experts from various EU member states are discussing in Berlin what legal and ethical issues will have to be addressed. The workshop is being organized by TMF, which – due to its extensive preliminary work on data protection and ethical issues of networked medical research – in this project is leading a work package dealing with the topic of data protection and data security.

From a Community of Predators to a Community Sharing a Common Vision

Medical research networks need a strong identity to be able to work successfully

December 15, 2011. Common goals and a clear mission are the key factors determining the success of any organization – and any medical research network. However, what may sound banal is highly relevant for motivating people to cooperate and for the impact of the network on the outside world. This became clear at a workshop on the topic of "Internal Communication in Medical Research Networks", which TMF held in Berlin on December 12, 2011.