Background In 2015, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research initiated a large data integration and data sharing research initiative to improve the reuse of data from patient care and translational research. The Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP) common data model and the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) tools could be used as a core element in this initiative for harmonizing the terminologies used as well as facilitating the federation of research analyses across institutions. Objective To realize an OMOP/OHDSI-based pilot implementation within a consortium of eight German university hospitals, evaluate the applicability to support data harmonization and sharing among them, and identify potential enhancement requirements. Methods The vocabularies and terminological mapping required for importing the fact data were prepared, and the process for importing the data from the source files was designed. For eight German university hospitals, a virtual machine preconfigured with the OMOP database and the OHDSI tools as well as the jobs to import the data and conduct the analysis was provided. Last, a federated/distributed query to test the approach was executed. Results While the mapping of ICD-10 German Modification succeeded with a rate of 98.8% of all terms for diagnoses, the procedures could not be mapped and hence an extension to the OMOP standard terminologies had to be made.

The performance of the coil in terms of B1 (+) and achievable SNR allows for spatially localized dynamic (31) P spectroscopy studies in the human calf. The associated higher specificity with respect to nonlocalized measurements permits distinguishing the functional responses of different muscles.

A device is presented for the generation of equally sized plaques of sensitive particles in a 96-well format. The resulting particle plaques can be used for the measurement of adsorption isotherms and uptake kinetics in protein chromatography or for immobilization reactions. The particle plaques are formed from suspensions with a vacuum device that is designed as a reusable sandwich module. The particles are retained by a mesh while the solvent is removed by the vacuum. As most particles used for protein chromatography are sensitive to mechanical stress and dehydration, the vacuum device is gentle enough to allow the use of these particles, thus eliminating the uncertainty of slurry preparation and pipetting. Apparatus characteristics and preparation procedures are described precisely. The physical intactness of the particles after the preparation procedure is proved by microscopic analysis. Data on the uniformity of the obtained resin plaques with respect to the reproducibility of their adsorption performance is given. Finally, adsorption isothermal and kinetic data of BSA on an ordinary HIC system obtained by high-throughput measurements are shown as an application example.

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The TW concept opens up a new approach for MRI of medium-sized animals in horizontal UHF scanners.