Intro -- Title Page -- Thinking, Researching and Acting Together for Health! Foreword -- Together We Can. Foreword -- German Medical Data Sciences 2024. Preface to the 8th Volume -- Reviewers for GMDS 2024 -- Contents -- Healthcare IT Systems -- Health IT Adoption in German Hospitals: Could We See Any Changes Between 2017 and 2023? -- Cloud Readiness of German Hospitals: Development and Application of an Evaluation Scale -- Research Infrastructure for Biomedical Research - FAIRification of Medical Data -- NFDI4Health Workflow and Service for Synthetic Data Generation, Assessment and Risk Management -- A Pipeline for the Usage of the Core Data Set of the Medical Informatics Initiative for Process Mining - A Technical Case Report -- Semi-Automatic Export of Electrophysiological Metadata to NFDI4Health Local Data Hubs: Use Case of Microneurography odML-Tables - A Technical Case Report -- Early Multimodal Data Integration for Data-Driven Medical Research - A Scoping Review -- The Concept of a Versatile Computing Tool Chain for Utilizing the Core Data Set of the Medical Informatics Initiative in the INTERPOLAR Project -- Unlocking Real-World Health Data from Non-University Locations Through Effective Provision of Tools and Knowledge -- Integration of Trusted Third Party Software into an EDC System for Data Protection - Compliant Identity Management, Consent Management and Pseudonymization in Medical Research Studies -- Handling Complexity in Decentralized Research Networks: The Data Sharing Framework Allowlist Management Application -- Study and Data Management -- Visualising Data Models of Patient Registries and Clinical Studies - A Method for Quality Check of EDC Systems -- Design and Implementation of a Community Driven Clinical Trial Information Management System for Precision Oncology Settings.