The University of Melbourne and The University of Queensland have signed an agreement to work on the conversion Queensland Health Cerner data to the OMOP common data model. Analysts are currently working on establishing a pilot extract load transform process (ETL) with synthetic Cerner data.
A community of practice is also being established to share expertise and support EMR conversions in other states.
We had our first steering committee meeting on the 14th July. Industry representation was high on the agenda. A co-chair was proposed and we had nominations of Nicole Pratt and David Bunker. A decision will be confirmed at the next steering committee meeting.
We had our first EMR's to OMOP technical meeting today with colleagues from Queensland and NSW.
We had demonstration of the OMOP ETL tool https://www.omop.link and a demonstration of Atlas.
Congratulations to our colleagues in UNSW on the publication of their paper on conversion methods for OMOP.
"Extract, Transform, Load Framework for the Conversion of Health Databases to OMOP"
Link:
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.08.21255178v2
We are advancing work with two centres in Victoria and Queensland. Atlas is being set up in each centre with Synthetic CDM data to get researchers familiar with the structure of OMOP. All those R skills are going to come in handy!
https://www.ohdsi.org/atlas-a-unified-interface-for-the-ohdsi-tools/
We had a really interesting meeting with Melanie Barlow and Julia Martin from the ARDC about metadata and Research Data Australia. We are planning how to describe the OMOP datasets. Fortunately OMOP already has a metadata table included in the CDM.
https://ohdsi.github.io/CommonDataModel/cdm531.html#Metadata_Tables
It's been a busy week on the EMR's to OMOP project. On Tuesday we had a workshop with ARDC to discuss sharing EMR to OMOP mappings in the future. Dr Daniel Capurro facilitated and we had a lively discussion of the issues. We are collating the results at the moment and will share the outcomes.
