Iris Institute
About the Iris Institute
The Iris Institute emerged from an international cooperation for the deployment, maintenance and development of the Iris software, an electronic system for automated coding of causes of death.
The increasing international interest in the Iris software has made it necessary to provide an institutional foundation to secure the supply and support of the Iris software. Consequently the cooperating partners from France, Italy, Hungary and Sweden approached the DIMDI with the request to establish the Iris Institute. Since DIMDI and BfArM have been merged, the secretariat is hosted by BfArM from 26 May 2020 onwards.
Canada, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, USA, England and Wales collaborate as the Core Group in the development of Iris. The following institutions have joined the cooperation:
Centre d'épidémiologie sur les causes médicales de décès (Inserm-CépiDc), France
Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM), Germany
Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), Germany
Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat), Italy
Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), Hungary
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), USA
Office for National Statistics (ONS), England and Wales
Statistics Canada (StatCan), Canada
Statistics Netherlands (CBS), Netherlands
Sweden was involved for more than twenty years in the development of Iris and was part of the Core Group until the end of 2016.
Further information
Contact
Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM)Iris Institute
Kurt-Georg-Kiesinger-Allee 3
53175 Bonn
Germany
E-mail: Iris Institute