Day 2 Updates
Early Call: Video
Global Call: Video
Wrap-Up Call: Video
Late Update
• The two main focuses of the Day 2 final call were on data networks and cohort definitions. Patrick Ryan announced that there were 36 data networks over eight different nations that are taking part in the study-a-thon, including seven with some level of COVID-19 data. An early highlight from Day 2 came from the announcement that the South Korean HIRA is making its data available for network studies (see this forum post for more information), but there are also Korean EHR data from two sources. U.S. sources with COVID-19 data include Tufts, Columbia, Stanford and Maine Medical.
• Thanks to Kristin Kostka and Talita Duarte-Salles for their work in helping to prepare these data networks to run the studies currently in preparation, and for joining George Hripcsak and Jose Posada in keeping track of all potential networks with OMOP-standardized data who are ready to contribute to this work.
• There have been 208 cohort definitions developed over the first 30+ hours of the study-a-thon to create populations throughout studies in characterization, estimation and population. As of the update, phenotypes have not been finalized, though the constant conversations have helped direct progress. One of the immediate goals moving forward is finalizing these and sharing them with colleagues across the different specificities.
For more detail and an insightful Q&A session, please check out the Day 2 wrap-up call.
Once again, thank you to everybody who is working so hard these four days to generate critical real-world evidence to inform decision-making during this global pandemic. All the work it took to create an infrastructure to allow this collaboration should be applauded, so we are extra appreciative tonight for the efforts of Lee Evans, Anthony Sena and James Wiggins. Thank you!