It is an open-access metadata-repository initiated for scientific purposes that can generate, analyse, release and reuse medical forms.
Because health care information systems are not compatible among themselves in general, structured data cannot easily be exchanged in between different institutions.
[8][9] The content of the forms are provided in the standard data type for medical research (CDISC ODM) and, besides the original format, available in various data types, for example REDCap, MACRO, CDA, CSV, ADL as well as in Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) Questionnaire Format.
As concluded by the FDA, the CDISC ODM-XML-Format for documentation in pharmaceutical research will be mandatory within the next two years, the portal already meets state of the art demands.
The medical-data-portal is known as German (RIsources) and European research infrastructure (MERIL) and is developed by the Institute of Medical Informatics, University of Münster, Germany.