Institut für Medizinische Informatik, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen

What Institut für Medizinische Informatik, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen does

The Institut für Medizinische Informatik is a university research department within Universitätsmedizin Göttingen (UMG), itself part of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen public law foundation. Founded in 1956 as a pioneer of medical informatics research in Germany and formally established as a chair in 1971, the institute employs approximately 100 staff across three professorships under the direction of Prof. Dr. Dagmar Krefting (since September 2019). Its research agenda centers on cross-institutional data interoperability, biosignal processing, clinical decision support, and AI-based analysis of physiological signals, with particular emphasis on cardiovascular and sleep medicine applications.

The institute has developed several proprietary platforms and infrastructure components: UMG-MeDIC, a Medical Data Integration Center providing governed access to research data; the SOMNOLINK cross-sectoral sleep apnea data exchange platform connecting 9 university locations; the CAEHR Rehabilitation Portal for cardiovascular care pathways; and AI methods for biosignal analysis using international data standards (OMOP, i2b2, FHIR). It is a leading partner in Germany's Medical Informatics Initiative (MII), NFDI4Health, the DigiHub initiative (with seven hubs), and the Network University Medicine (NUM), and plays coordinating roles in TMF, GMDS, and DZHK. External recognition includes the German Sleep Prize 2026, the GMDS sponsorship prize for best master's thesis 2024, and the George B. Moody Challenge Prize from Computing in Cardiology in 2023.

The institute's revenue model is entirely non-commercial: it is funded through BMBF federal research grants (MII, NFDI4Health, DigiHub CAEHR, SOMNOLINK), university core budget allocations from Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, and DAAD international exchange funding. Research services, data infrastructure, and platforms are not priced commercially but delivered as part of funded research projects and institutional partnerships. Its primary "customers" are the German public-sector research ecosystem — university hospitals, federal ministries, and academic networks — alongside graduate students in its Medical Informatics, Applied Data Science, and Applied Informatics degree programs.

Name

Institut für Medizinische Informatik, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen

Legal name

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Stiftung öffentlichen Rechts

Website

https://medizininformatik.umg.eu

Company type

Private

Founded year

1956

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The Institut für Medizinische Informatik is a university research institute within Universitätsmedizin Göttingen (~100 staff, 3 professorships) that develops data interoperability platforms, biosignal AI, and clinical decision support systems, serving German public-sector research networks in cardiovascular and sleep medicine.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Informatics Research

NAICS

Scientific Research and Development Services (5417), Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (54171)

SIC

Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731), Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Biomedical Sciences & Medical Research Institutes (University-Based) (EDAHAGAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Clinical & Translational Informatics (Clinical Data Integration/Real-World Data for R&D) (HLAGAJAF), Scientific Data Management & Data Platforms (SDMS/Data Lakehouse for R&D) (HLAGAJAC), Clinical Trial Informatics (EDC/CTMS/eCOA/eTMF) (HLAGAJAM)

Keywords

• Medical informatics research
• Clinical data interoperability
• Biosignal processing
• Health data infrastructure
• Clinical decision support

Headquarters

HQ city

Göttingen

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Government Research Funding: Primary revenue from German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) funded projects including the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII), NFDI4Health, DigiHub CAEHR, SOMNOLINK, and other national research programs. Funding periods typically span 4-5 years with potential for renewal.
2. University Core Funding: Base funding from Georg-August-Universität Göttingen as part of the faculty structure, supporting fundamental research and teaching activities.
3. DAAD Exchange Funding: Funding from German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for international research collaborations and student exchanges.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

The Institute for Medical Informatics conducts research and operates infrastructure for cross-institutional medical data sharing, AI-based clinical decision support, and biosignal processing, while also delivering academic degree programs in medical informatics, applied data science, and applied informatics. It functions as both a research department and a service unit (UMG-MeDIC) that provides data access governance, project registries, and Use & Access committees for clinical research stakeholders.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• UMG-MeDIC: Medical Data Integration Center - a coordination unit for research data usage, project registry, services, and Use & Access Committee.

Products and services

• UMG-MeDIC (Medical Data Integration Center) Coordination unit for research data usage at Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, providing data access governance, project registry, and support services for clinical researchers requiring use of clinical data for research.
• SOMNOLINK Platform Cross-sectoral data exchange platform for obstructive sleep apnea that connects university sleep medicine centers to enable networked, data-driven research and care for OSA patients.
• CAEHR Rehabilitation Portal Digital platform for cross-sectoral healthcare digitization focusing on cardiovascular diseases and rehabilitation care pathways, part of the DigiHub initiative.
• Academic Degree Programs (Applied Data Science, Applied Informatics) University degree programs in Medical Informatics, Applied Data Science, and Applied Informatics offered in cooperation with Georg-August-Universität Göttingen for students pursuing careers at the intersection of medicine and informatics.

Quantifiable outcome

• Network connecting 55 employees at 9 university locations for sleep medicine research
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

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Feature5 records

Partnerships

14 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• TMF (Technologie- und Methodenplattform für die vernetzte medizinische Forschung e.V.)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 12 September 2025TMF is the technology and methods platform for networked medical research in Germany. DigiHub CAEHR became a full member in September 2025. The institute actively participates in TMF working groups and events, contributing to national research infrastructure development.
• NFDI4HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNational research data infrastructure initiative for personal health data. Prof. Dr. Ulrich Sax serves as a key member, hosting the 2026 strategy retreat in Göttingen. The institute contributes to FAIR data services and Trusted Research Environments development.
• DigiHub CAEHR (Digital Progress Hub Health)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLed by Prof. Dr. Dagmar Krefting as consortium leader, CAEHR focuses on cross-sectoral digitization for cardiovascular diseases. Entered second funding phase (2025-2029) with focus on emergency care and cross-hub care use cases.
• SOMNOLINKcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMedical Informatics Initiative project led by Prof. Krefting and Prof. Christoph Schöbel. Connects 55 employees at 9 university locations for networked sleep medicine research. Won German Sleep Prize 2026 in Science & Innovation category.
• DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBiannual infrastructure meetings hosted at the institute. Active contribution to DZHK Heart Bank data quality processes and analysis data reintegration procedures.
• NUM (Netzwerk Universitätsmedizin)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerActive participation in NUM conventions and study network development. Contributions to NUKLEUS platform for clinical epidemiology and study support services.
• GMDS (German Society for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerProf. Dr. Ulrich Sax elected head of Medical Informatics department within GMDS. Active workshop organization including Biomedical Informatics working group and joint sessions with DGBMT.
• IMIA (International Medical Informatics Association)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational professional organization for medical informatics. Institute maintains membership and participates in international exchanges.
• Screen4CareminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEuropean research project led by University of Ferrara and Pfizer for early detection of rare genetic diseases. Prof. Krefting and team host Common Data Model workshops at UMG.
• HiGHmedminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerOne of the initial Medical Informatics Initiative consortia. Historical partnership from the first funding phase of the MII.
• DigiHub LeMeDaRTminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLean Medical Data Digital Progress Hub in Mannheim. Exchange visit in April 2026 to consolidate thematic overlaps in prehab-to-rehab treatment pathways with potential for future collaboration.
• University Medical Centers (Various)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerScientific cooperation with Universitätsklinik Bonn, Charité Berlin, Universitätsmedizin Freiburg, Universitätsklinik Jena, and numerous other university hospitals across Germany for collaborative research projects.
• DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFunding for student exchanges with Eötvös Loránd University Budapest. Collaboration on sparse dictionary learning and neural networks for ECG signal denoising.
• AOK, DAK-Gesundheit, TK (Health Insurance Companies)minorOthersHealth insurance partnerships for research data access and health services research collaborations.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• Owkin: Federated AI platform for healthcare and life sciences research, directly comparable to the institute's biosignal processing AI and federated data-sharing work, with commercial momentum and partnerships across European academic medical centers.

Broad incumbents

• IQVIA: Global life sciences and clinical research data company with overlapping offerings in real-world data, clinical trial informatics, and health data integration — operating at much larger scale and with commercial execution capability.

Direct peers

• TriNetX: Global clinical research informatics platform built on federated EHR data and standardized data models (including OMOP), serving academic medical centers with similar use cases around data access governance and cross-institutional research.
• Chair of Medical Informatics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg: German university medical informatics group active in MII, MIRACUM consortium, and clinical data integration research; comparable in size, academic positioning, and funding model.
• Institute for Medical Informatics, Heidelberg University Hospital: Major German university medical informatics group historically involved in HiGHmed and medical image/data analytics, with comparable focus on translational informatics and research data infrastructure.
• Institute of Medical Informatics, University Medical Center Freiburg: One of the four founding data integration centers of the Medical Informatics Initiative and a long-standing peer institute focused on clinical data integration, FAIR data, and medical informatics research within a German university hospital.
• Institute of Medical Informatics, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin: Leading German university medical informatics institute and HiGHmed consortium member; operates a major data integration center within the MII with overlapping focus on interoperability standards and clinical research infrastructure.
• HiGHmed Medical Informatics Consortium: One of the four original MII consortia, formally a partner of the institute, with parallel focus on data integration, OMOP/CDM implementation, and clinical use cases across multiple German university hospitals.
• Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig: Long-established German university institute combining medical informatics with biostatistics and epidemiology, participating in MII and other national health data initiatives with similar academic and applied scope.

Others

• Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI):

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

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