German Center for Emergency Medicine and IT established

“One of the most important improvements in German emergency medical services is now rapidly taking shape”, says Dr. Thomas Luiz, until recently Medical Director for the Kaiserslautern Emergency Medical Services and since the 1st of January 2009 Medical Director of the German Center for Emergency Medicine and Information Technology DENIT at Fraunhofer IESE.

With DENIT, the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE in Kaiserslautern is establishing a research and development institution dedicated, among other things, to the development of systems for optimized logistics and communication structures in emergency medicine. Providing the population at large with efficient emergency medical services calls for modern, state-of-the-art optimization approaches.

With its focus on research in emergency medicine logistics and systems, DENIT will contribute to investigating workflow-optimized process chains, highly reliable system architectures, as well as high-performance infrastructures for logistics and communication in emergency medical services and will help to transfer these into emergency medicine practice.

Another task will be the conceptual transfer of research results into emergency medicine scenarios that are suitable for practical application. Institute director Prof. Dieter Rombach stresses the importance of empirically validated procedures in emergency medical services: “Nowadays, the role of information and communication technology is just as important in the rescue chain from the emergency physician to the hospital as that of medicine itself. Appropriate system architectures as well as demonstrably correct methods, technologies, and tools must ensure that this chain is not broken.”

DENIT will initiate numerous research and development activities and thus make an important contribution to the improvement of medical and social logistical structures. Design and setup of mission databases, expert systems, communication infrastructures, and telemedicine networks are only a few of the areas that DENIT will be working in. On top of that, the research center will provide extensive services to industry and the public sector, including, in particular, technology transfer in the area of software and systems engineering and, in collaboration with other areas of IESE, development of state-of-the-art training and education programs (simulation, e-Learning) in the application domain of emergency medical services.
In addition to Fraunhofer IESE and the Westpfalz-Klinikum Kaiserslautern, other project partners will be included in DENIT during the project’s runtime.

Fraunhofer-Institute for Experimental Software Engineering
Fraunhofer IESE is one of the worldwide leading research institutes in the area of software and systems development. A major portion of the products offered by our collaboration partners is defined by software. These products range from automotive and transportation systems to telecommunication and telematics equipment, from information systems and medical devices to software systems for the public sector. Our solutions allow flexible scaling. This makes us a competent technology partner for organizations of any size – from small companies to major corporations.
Under the leadership of Prof. Dieter Rombach and Prof. Peter Liggesmeyer, the past decade has seen us making major contributions to strengthening the emerging IT location Kaiserslautern.
In the Fraunhofer Information and Communication Technology Group, we are cooperating with other Fraunhofer institutes on developing trend-setting key technologies for the future.
Fraunhofer IESE is one of 57 institutes of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. Together we have a major impact on shaping applied research in Europe and contribute to Germany’s competitiveness in international markets.

Alexander Rabe
Phone +49 (631) 6800 1002
alexander.rabe@iese.fraunhofer.de
Fraunhofer-Institut für Experimentelles Software Engineering IESE
Fraunhofer-Platz 1
67663 Kaiserslautern
Germany

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