NEWS

SEP

15

2026

Media

A new article about our project, titled “EyeMatics: Mit vernetzten Daten und KI die Sehkraft retten”, has been published on the website of the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology, and Space.

jun

12

2026

Second consortium meeting of the EyeMatics research network in Münster

Münster, June 12, 2026 – The second consortium meeting of the EyeMatics research network took place in Münster on June 11–12, 2026. Representatives from the participating sites in Aachen, Chemnitz, Dresden, Greifswald, Leipzig, Mainz, Münster, and Tübingen, as well as representatives of the patient advocacy organization PRO RETINA e.V., attended the meeting. […]

may

07

2026

Media

We are pleased to announce the first episode of the EyeMatics podcast. In this episode, we discuss the MII use case EyeMatics and provide targeted insights into the fundamentals of the research project. The podcast is now available online.

sep

08

2025

PUBLICATION

„Towards a FHIR Specification for Research in Ophthalmology: Designing the EyeMatics Core Data Set for Multi-centric Data Integration“ The methodology and interim results of developing a standardized core data set for ophthalmology were presented to an interested expert audience at the annual meeting of the German Society for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS) on September 8, 2025. 

jan

14

2025

Approval of the 2nd funding phase

We were delighted to receive the funding decision for the second funding phase (May 1, 2025 – February 29, 2028) in January. The project was initially tranched and the funds for the second half were blocked subject to the positive evaluation of the interim report. Now that we have received the decision for the remaining project funds, nothing stands in the way of our work.

SEP

07

2024

PUBLICATION

We are pleased that we were able to publish the project concept in a first publication entitled “EyeMatics: An Ophthalmology Use Case within the German Medical Informatics Initiative” in the journal JMIR Medical Informatics.

Apr

12

2024

Two-Day KICK-OFF MEETING

MÜNSTER

The joint project “EyeMatics” (Eye Diseases Treated with Interoperable Medical Informatics) was launched with a successful two-day kick-off event in Münster. A total of 33 people from seven different locations took part in the hybrid meeting. 

MaR

01

2024

Project Launch

The EyeMatics joint project was officially launched on March 1, 2024.