Hello Health System friends!
CDM v5.5 will introduce some very useful columns for our use cases. Highlights include the addition of value_as_date to the OBSERVATION table, visit_occurrence_id and visit_detail_id to the SPECIMEN table, value_as_source_concept_id to MEASUREMENT and OBSERVATION, unit_source_concept_id to the OBSERVATION table, along with some vocabulary tables. See the full write up here.
On Monday, July 6th at 10am EDT we will discuss best practices for updating the OMOP CDM to version 5.5. We will also welcome special guests @Callum_Harding and @Dymshyts for a quick discussion and ask regarding psychiatric scales in source data.