Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Medical Informatics
Date Submitted: May 24, 2024
Date Accepted: Sep 7, 2024
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EyeMatics: An Ophthalmology Use Case within the German Medical Informatics Initiative
ABSTRACT
The EyeMatics project, embedded as a clinical use case in Germany's Medical Informatics Initiative, is a large digital health initiative in ophthalmology. The objective is to improve understanding of treatment effects regarding intravitreal injections, the most frequent procedure to treat eye diseases. To achieve this, valuable patient data will be meaningfully integrated and visualized from different IT-systems and different hospital sites. EyeMatics emphasizes a governance framework that actively involves patient representatives, strictly implements interoperability standards and employs Artificial Intelligence methods to extract biomarkers from both tabular clinical and raw retinal scans. In this perspective paper, we delineate the strategies for user-centered implementation and healthcare-based evaluation in a multi-site observational technology study.
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