Hello, all.
I am Kate Weber - I am a Sr Data Analyst for the University of Michigan School of Dentistry. What started as a side project to try to extract concepts from our (largely text) health histories with NLP tooling has turned into an all-consuming interest in consistent, computable ways to represent that information. I am especially keen on using graph database tools alongside machine learning technology to investigate communities of patients.
I need to bolt this information to a source of consistent truth and have been flailing at UMLS in general and SNOMED-CT/RxNorm in particular. They, in conjunction with OMOP, seem like an ideal foundation for our budding clinical data warehousing efforts. But now you can see how scope is blowing out of control.
I hope to watch and listen and get a good foundation in OHDSI’s tools so I can build the second draft of my Health History dataset over them. I feel as though I’m barely treading water but am optimistic that everything will lock together and make perfect sense. Soon. Probably. Until I realize I didn’t get it at all and have to rinse and repeat again.
Regards,
Kate