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Case StudyTransform healthcare with data-driven solutions

With our partners at German Spine Society (DWG), we’re actively deploying an innovative data solution at clinical institutions in Germany, Austria and Switzerland to ensure the quality of spine surgery treatments. Learn how we’re scaling healthtech to improve patient treatments for today and tomorrow. 

Challenge

Quality control is a growing focus in healthcare with the increased need for evidence-based studies advancing the effectiveness of therapies. DWG recognizes that outcomes research is a direct driver and benchmark for standard of care. The opportunity lies in improving service quality, resource efficiency and above all patient health—delivering both clinical and economic value.1 

Solution

DWG and Snke collaborated to create an innovative data solution that integrates a secure, cloud-based repository with tools for structured data acquisition, de-identification of patient records, a robust patient consent framework, and an independent pseudonymization system. This comprehensive approach enables the secure collection, processing, and analysis of clinically relevant data while maintaining patient privacy at every stage of the data lifecycle.

Challenge

Quality control is a growing focus in healthcare with the increased need for evidence-based studies advancing the effectiveness of therapies. DWG recognizes that outcomes research is a direct driver and benchmark for standard of care. The opportunity lies in improving service quality, resource efficiency and above all patient health—delivering both clinical and economic value.1 

Solution

DWG and Snke collaborated to create an innovative data solution that integrates a secure, cloud-based repository with tools for structured data acquisition, de-identification of patient records, a robust patient consent framework, and an independent pseudonymization system. This comprehensive approach enables the secure collection, processing, and analysis of clinically relevant data while maintaining patient privacy at every stage of the data lifecycle.

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A data-powered clinical registry study

Clinical registry studies, like that of the German Spine Society, are powerful tools for collecting and analyzing health data to support clinical research, ensure quality assurance and benchmark outcomes. Particularly valuable for surgical innovations, they assess treatment safety, efficacy, and cost-effectiveness under real-world conditions.  

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Ensuring high-quality outcomes

The German Spine Registry provides a national overview of spinal medicine with the goal of ensuring high-quality outcomes through benchmarking, facilitating comparative research alongside randomized trials, and monitoring spinal implants through post-market (phase IV) studies. Clinics benefit from ongoing quality assurance, continuously updated analyses, and the ability to compare these benchmarks with other clinics.2,3 

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Scaling Snke with the German Spine Registry

Empowering research

Participating clinics upload relevant data to the registry solution via our reporting software. In the DWG registry study, the focus is on the patients at all times: Data collection begins with patient consent via our Data Sharing Consent framework. To protect the patients’ identities, the data is pseudonymized prior to upload with the help of an external trust center. This means that patients cannot be identified when the data is used.

Driving outcomes

Every use of the DWG Registry data must be checked and approved by an application committee. In our data access portal, applicants receive feedback on the feasibility of their project prior to submission. The application process includes a Snke technical review and a DWG content review and may also include an iterative improvement phase prior to approval.

The data is then made available in a secure portal or via regularly scheduled reports with all aggregated data. In this way, researchers are able to review the data whose use has been approved and to which the patients have consented. All projects are published on the patient information portal.

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Scaling healthtech

Working together, Snke and DWG have developed a registry solution that prioritizes patient-focused data collection with robust privacy protections, leveraging the Snke centralized cloud, consent framework, and de-identification processes to ensure secure and ethical data handling. By advancing the registry study, clinicians and societies are empowered to improve access and ensure consistency in treatments while delivering measurable quality outcomes for patients.

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  1. DWG: Why a Spine Registry

  2. DWG: Objectives of the registry

  3. DWG: What is a registry