Team:
Hearing no topics for discussion today, we’ll cancel our weekly call. Just a reminder that if anyone has something specific to present, please let me know and we can add it to the agenda. Topics can include: 1) brainstorming new research ideas, 2) presenting works-in-progress that you’d like feedback on, 3) sharing new results that are recently published/forthcoming, 4) discussing collaborative opportunities for application development/testing/evaluation, 5) any other topics that advance our mission of generating reliable scientific evidence about about disease natural history, healthcare delivery, and the effects of medical interventions.
Last week, we had a lively discussion about the practical aspects of getting source converted to OMOP CDM. Thanks to @jon_duke, @Juan_Banda, @mkhayter, @Christian_Reich for sharing your experiences. We also discussed the feedback on the OHDSI community tools, and we identified some areas for improvement. For those who want to relive the magic, here’s the link to the meeting minutes and here’s the link to the recording.
Next week, @Mark_Danese will lead a discussion around how we can apply OMOP CDM to data from CMS, including the Medicare claims, SEER-Medicare linked registry, and the Synthetic data that’s being discussed. @donohara posted that he’s made progress on converting the CMS Synthetic data to OMOP CDM v5, so hopefully we can compare notes, share best practices, provide specifications and tools that folks have already developed, and ultimately make the synthetic dataset publicly available for all of us in the OHDSI community to use. An immmediate application of the synthetic data, once folks can make it available, will be to load the data into the test environment that @lee_evans so that we can all test/debug parameterized SQL that runs across the database environments we’re trying to support (SQL Server, Oracle, PostgresQL). The data can also be used to provide everyone will stand-alone demonstrations of our open-source analytics tools that are already available, such as ACHILLES and HERMES, and can provide the foundation to facilitate our continued development of CIRCE, HERACLES, HOMER, PLATO, etc.