The Status of Data Management Practices Across German Medical Data Integration Centers: Mixed Methods Study

Kerstin Gierend   ¹ , Dipl Inf (FH) ;   Sherry Freiesleben   ² , MSc ;   Dennis Kadioglu   ^{3, 4} , MSc ;   Fabian Siegel   ¹ , MD ;   Thomas Ganslandt   ^{5 *} , MD ;   Dagmar Waltemath   ^{2 *} , Dr -lng

¹ Department of Biomedical Informatics at the Center for Preventive Medicine and Digital Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany

² Core Unit Data Integration Center and Medical Informatics Laboratory, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

³ Institute for Medical Informatics (IMI), Goethe University Frankfurt, University Hospital, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

⁴ Department for Information and Communication Technology (DICT), Data Integration Center (DIC), Goethe University Frankfurt, University Hospital, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

⁵ Chair of Medical Informatics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

*these authors contributed equally