Wow, this is amazing. I only just stumbled into this and it is incredible. In many ways I don’t know where to start, I have some specific questions, but not sure I even have the right vocabulary to search for them. In due time. Meanwhile as suggested a bit about me, and why I’m interested.
I am the CEO and Co-founder of Semantic Arts, a consulting firm that specializes in helping enterprises on their journey to harmonizing all the data they manage through semantics and knowledge graphs. We have been focusing on this exclusively for 25 years. Only a very few of our projects to date have been in healthcare, but the approach we use seems to work in all the domains we’ve tried it in.
As I said I have some specific things I’m looking for, but being an ontologist and semanticist, I can get very excited about things like the thread I just saw on What is a phenotype in the context of observational research? Great stuff. I’m sure I’m just at the tip of the iceberg here.
Meanwhile it looks like we are about to start a project with a Clinical Research Organization, and one of their interests is targeting hospitals based on whether they think a given patient population will be conducive to a given trial. At one point a couple of years ago talking to some ontologists at Montefiore, I recall them saying they were able to get anonymized (aggregated really) patient profiles by hospital, and I thought it was through OHDSI, or maybe it was through some other means, and they were using OMOP from you guys.
But if this rings a bell and you can point me in a right direction I’d appreciate it.