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#1

Hi All,

For those of you who attended today’s community call, I mentioned that I’ll be making changes to OHDSI.org and am looking for feedback from the community. As I update the website, it would be helpful to know:

  1. What information do you find most helpful on OHDSI.org?
  2. What information is difficult to find?
  3. What information is missing from OHDSI.org?
  4. What aspects of OHDSI do we want to present on the homepage to inform newcomers and direct their exploration of our work?
  5. Any other comments for feedback you’d like to share.

Your feedback is much appreciated.

Cheers,
Maura

OHDSI Community Call 3May2016
#2

Maura:

Two things:

  1. The most common questions I get and would love to have people go to find on the website much more prominently are:
  • Who is participating?
  • How many patients are in?
  • What are the use cases covered?
  • How do I get help
  1. We should have some marketing/hot stuff on the top. Right now, it’s dull. We should everything that’s in active debate on the front page, maybe with just a headline, but still.
#3

What i really miss is a Catalogue of databases that have been mapped to the OMOP CDM.

I like to know which are mapped, how to contact them, what type of data they have, what the procedures for governance boards etc etc.

This on the one hand shows the adoption of the CDM all over the world, but also enables leveraging the available data for studies.

In EMIF work is being done on this front by developing a customisable open source tool for this (even including integration of Achilles if databases want to share this online). You can create communities in this tool that can have their own questionnaires made public. Maybe this is something to have a look at…??

http://www.emif.eu

I agree with Christian that the current website needs some attractive stuff. As i mentioned during the last OHDSI meeting in Washington i think it would be nice to have good presentations online showing off the power of OHDSI once the tool development is more mature (for example ATLAS). An Apple style presentation…?

#4

I would like to see a discussion of performance metrics/concerns from the database point of view. Maybe a description of environments vs dataset size to help newcomers with the initial build of their systems. Something like:
database and version:
OMOP version:
CPUs:
Memory size:
How much resources assigned/dedicate to DB and threading model:
Counts of person, visit, condition_occurrence, procedure_occurence, drug_exposure
Response time and number of results from standardized queries ( cohort creation, specific condition/proc/drug )
Any specialized indexing or performance tweaks?

This would probably be useful as an OMOP CDM SQL only package and as a OHDSI package.

I am willing to take a cut at this if others think it would be useful.

#5

I think that would be useful and we’d contribute for Saftinet and pScanner networks. Lisa

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