NFDI4Health aims to expand the technical infrastructure for the entire data lifecycle. With our innovative services and technical developments, we seek to break down existing silos and find solutions that are compatible with the heterogeneous research landscape. In this way, we ensure the findability and access to health data while complying with data protection regulations and ethical principles.

Our Services

Standards for Data Collection

We develop solutions for the documentation and publication of clinical and epidemiological studies and data. This includes standards and guidelines for metadata, and the harmonization and quality assurance of research data. For this purpose, we offer services such as Data Harmonization and Publication, Data Quality Assessment, Data Anonymization Tools, Annotation Workbench as well as our Terminology Service.

Infrastructure for Findability and Access

We provide infrastructures to improve the findability and reuse of personal research data. The following three services are available: Our FAIR Training concept helps researchers learn and integrate important standards of research data management into their own work. Our health data platform, the Health Study Hub, facilitates the capture of metadata and makes a wide range of health studies more discoverable. The Local Data Hub enables local data management, while researchers can request data for new research questions through the German Portal for Medical Research Data (FDPG).

Secure Sharing and Analysis

In compliance with data protection regulations, the requested data can be securely analyzed in decentralized environments. With our services DataSHIELD and Personal Health Train, researchers can analyze data in a protected environment. By combining different data sets, unresolved questions about health and disease can be answered.