The AKTIN infrastructure provides a platform for real-time research and monitoring in the healthcare sector, especially in emergency and acute medicine. The platform makes it possible to automatically record standardised clinical data from patient care on a daily basis - across locations and independently of the primary electronic documentation systems, in compliance with data protection regulations. AKTIN also includes the development and maintenance of documentation and interoperability standards in the field of acute and emergency medicine as well as a technical and organisational platform based on these standards.

The AKTIN EDDR is operated as an application on the platform. It enables easy access to data from emergency departments for these purposes. Special features of the register are, on the one hand, the use of routine data without additional effort for the treating staff and, on the other hand, the decentralised infrastructure, which allows the data to be stored in the individual clinics and thus in the treatment context. If data is requested for scientific questions, a data enquiry is sent to the respective clinics. The requested data is then anonymised and collated in compliance with data protection regulations.

The aim of the AKTIN infrastructure is to improve and accelerate the availability of data for health reporting and (care) research as well as to optimise quality management in emergency departments and in acute and emergency medicine.

The AKTIN infrastructure, which has been developed since 2013 with funding from the BMBF (01KX17XXX), has developed considerably. By 2019, it comprised 18 emergency departments. Since the establishment of the Network University Medicine (NUM) in 2020, AKTIN has been actively involved in the AKTIN-EZV project, which aimed to broaden the AKTIN infrastructure and contribute to the analysis of emergency admission data during the pandemic. In 2022, the AKTIN platform was integrated into the NUM infrastructure. Building on this, the launch of AKTIN2.0 in 2023 marked the start of the second project to further expand the infrastructure to 70 Emergency Departments.