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Combined Health Equities, OMOP + FHIR & Women of OHDSI WG Agenda - 24Oct24

A detailed agenda for the morning can be found here

The OMOP + FHIR and Health Equity Working Groups have pursued cross-working group collaborations focused on FHIR standards impacting SDoH, where the interest of both groups intersects. Serendipitously, the Women of OHDSI (WoO) Working Group is being reinvigorated. The Thursday Working Group session will feature the official “re-launching” of the Women of OHDSI (WOO) working group and follow with activities supporting the aims of all three groups: seeking conventions for the FHIR Gender Harmony Implementation Guide (IG) on OMOP by leveraging the harmonized constructs to build phenotypes in OMOP around two clinical quality use cases focused on women’s health issues.

The Women of OHDSI WG has a 3-pillar approach to support women’s and gender health research, improve the CDM to improve gender health centricity, and provide a platform to support and empower women professionals working to generate real-world evidence. The WoO kick-off will include review of its framework and opportunity to suggest ideas, put forward potential speakers and events to come.

The HL7 Gender Harmony model provides a useful framework for gender identity, administrative sex, and pronoun data element definitions and attributes. The GH model provides a context independent classification for recorded sex and gender information. The FHIR to OMOP working group has aligned the GH model with USCDI data classes for the individual sub elements of the GH model which have been proposed as updates to the OMOP CDM.

The workshop session will first provide an overview of the GH cross paradigm model and its alignment with the OMOP tables and conventions in THEMIS. The workshop will then begin the work to utilize these data elements to construct phenotypes for the Sex Parameters for Clinical Use (SPCU) component of the GH model based on two digital quality measurement (dQM) use cases for breast and cervical cancer.

Workshop attendees will become familiar with data definitions for recorded sex and gender concepts and how they are essential to research projects focused on healthcare disparities and equity. Attendees will also have a unique opportunity to contribute to the development of standard SPCU phenotypes that will enhance reliability of clinical quality measurement and the validity of disparities research, 8am-1pm. Location: Conference Room B/C, 2nd Floor.

We are looking forward to seeing you then!

Atif Adam
Davera Gabriel
Sarah Seager

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