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The human-induced climate crisis endangers health and the foundations of life for us humans. The professional society GMDS – German Assocation for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology – considers itself responsible for the health in society. What does this mean in times of the climate crisis? During a workshop entitled “Climate change, digitalization and health“ at GMDS2023 in Heilbronn, action areas for GMDS as a professional society and for its members were discussed. On the micro level, for example, the necessity, the anticipated benefits for human health, and the climate consequences of planned projects should be reflected upon. On the meso level, GMDS-organized events could be made climate-neutral, for example. On the macro level, GMDS could, for example, influence funding bodies to consider climate consequences in decisions regarding research proposals. We invite everyone interested to actively participate in the planned further discussions. The establishment of a GMDS project group or working group on this topic is planned. Now is the time to take responsibility for the climate. This applies at the professional level for us personally as well as for the professional society GMDS as an institution.

The aim of this research work was to implement a prototype of an electronic application with integration of the EFA to support IT-based care management processes. A solution concept has been designed to describe an implementation of a care management scenario consisting of the EFA and a care management platform. This work is as research approach as part of the increasing efforts of the federal government to promote the use of electronic application in order to achieve an improvement in the quality of patient care. Through the representation of defined patterns of interaction and the integrated functional model of the EFA, the care management platform is able to support a central process control, communication and data exchange in collaborative care management. The solution concept is the basis for the implementation and can serve as reference for similar systems.