Hello everyone,
Happy New Year! Throughout last year, we had great support for the OHDSI Gold Standard Phenotype Library, including this forum, a use case document, a mock-up on the wiki including a submission form template, and great ideas, among others. As a new year’s resolution, let’s make a goal to have a functional library to debut at the symposium this year (likely in September)!
Some common phenotype subthemes arose during our bi-weekly meetings:
- Design: Rule-Based (Heuristic) Phenotypes
- Design: Computable (Probabilistic) Phenotypes
- Evaluation: Manual Chart Review / Annotations
- Evaluation: Automated / Algorithmic
- Library Architecture and Implementation
Call for volunteers!
For each of the items listed above, we’re looking to have a community member act as a point person to help develop and formalize OHDSI best practices. The goal is to develop robust documentation that we can put to use, which may in some cases overlap with the documentation of accompanying packages (e.g. Aphrodite for #2). This work is particularly timely, since once they are sufficiently developed, it may make the most sense to house our best practices in the upcoming Book of OHDSI.
Folks, this is a call to arms! Are there any volunteers who would be willing to participate in and/or lead these subgroups?