Research Together.

We collaboratively build emergency care research statistics in Germany based on IVENA allocation data.

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Users

26

Hospitals

1.921.657

Allocations

987

Imports

Independent and non-commercial

The initiative is run by an independent clinical research network with a clear public-health focus.

Hospital-centered workflows

Participating sites can manage institutions, maintain metadata, and work with their own allocation exports.

Explore data

Inspect records with filters for urgency, transport context, assignment patterns, and clinical characteristics.

Statistics and benchmarking

Generate distributions and trend views to support evidence-based emergency care decisions.

About us

Although emergency medical services are among the largest referrers to emergency departments, there are still only few large-scale systematic analyses of EMS patient characteristics. Since 2017, the web-based IVENA system has been used across Germany to digitally register EMS patients at acute care hospitals.

For every allocation, an anonymized dataset is created and stored, including variables such as age, sex, coded suspected diagnosis, urgency, assignment pathway, physician accompaniment, CPR, ventilation, infection status, pregnancy, and requested resources like resuscitation room or cath lab.

In early 2021, members of the DGINA working group in Hesse initiated this collaborative platform to merge IVENA allocation data from many hospitals and enable shared statistics and dedicated analyses for specific emergency care research questions.

Core platform strengths

Built for hospitals, research teams, and quality improvement initiatives.

Hospital management and participation

Each hospital can be represented with structured profile data, participation status, and ownership assignments for local administration.

Detailed data exploration

Analyze age, sex, coded suspected diagnosis, priority, assignment pathway, and other operational characteristics across large cohorts.

Shared statistics for targeted questions

Create focused analyses for specific research questions and compare institutional patterns with anonymized clusters.

Import and export pipeline

Hospitals can continuously import new IVENA exports and use structured exports for downstream scientific workflows.

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