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OHDSI Symposium ‘The Journey from Data to Evidence’ – March 29th, 2019

The second European OHDSI Symposium called "The Journey from Data to Evidence" aimed to explain how OHDSI's methods and tools can be used to obtain reliable evidence. The focus this year was on live demonstrations of the use of these tools to answer clinical questions.

The main symposium took place on Friday March 29th 2019 at the educational center of the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Saturday March 30th and Sunday March 31st were dedicated to tutorials.

The symposium had more than 250 participants, 35 posters, and 8 software demos.

Note: Video recordings were noted as “available soon” on the original page.

Sessions (Slides)

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Sessions (Slides)

Download the slide decks for each session.

Session 1

Welcome to the European OHDSI Journey

Peter Rijnbeek, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam

Session 2

The Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) Initiative

George Hripcsak, Columbia University Medical Center

Session 3

The European Health Data and Evidence Network (EHDEN) Project

Peter Rijnbeek, Erasmus MC Rotterdam

Session 4

What evidence do we want to generate?

Patrick Ryan (Janssen R&D)
Daniel Prieto Alhambra (University of Oxford)
Niklas Norén (Uppsala Monitoring Centre)

Session 5

OHDSI Standardized Analytics for Evidence Generation

Anthony Sena
Jenna Reps
Martijn Schuemie

Session 6

Adopting the OMOP Common Data Model to enable standardized analytics

Christian Reich (IQVIA)
Erica Voss (Janssen R&D)
Mui van Zandt (IQVIA)

Session 7

Lightning talks of selected abstracts

Moderator: Kristin Kostka (IQVIA)

  1. Standardisation of European medical vocabularies and its incorporation to the OMOP CDM — Alexander Davydov
  2. Conversion of Saudi Arabia EHR to OMOP CDM — Fatemah Alnofal
  3. Quality control of OMOP-CDM in SIDIAP — Leonardo Mendez-Boo
  4. Empirical assessment of OHDSI case-based methods in SNDS — Nicolas Thurin
  5. Personalized Surgery in Denmark — Ismail Gögenur
Session 8

Data to Evidence: OHDSI in action!

Patrick Ryan · Rebecca Chandler

Session 9

Closing remarks

Peter Rijnbeek, Erasmus MC Rotterdam


Tutorials

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Tutorials

Materials from the tutorials held March 30–31, 2019.

OMOP-CDM and Standardized Vocabularies Tutorial

When: March 30th, 9:00–17:00

Faculty: Christian Reich, Erica Voss, Mui van Zandt

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Population-Level Effect Estimation

When: March 30th, 9:00–17:00

Faculty: Martijn Schuemie, Patrick Ryan

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Patient-Level Prediction

When: March 31th, 9:00–17:00

Faculty: Peter Rijnbeek, Jenna Reps, Ross Williams

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OMOP Common Data Model Extract, Transform & Load

When: March 31th, 9:00–17:00

Faculty: Erica Voss, Clair Blacketer

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Cohort Building in OMOP CDM: Hands-on Experience

When: March 31th, 9:00–17:00

Faculty: Christian Reich, Patrick Ryan

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Symposium Handouts

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Symposium Handouts

Agenda and handouts from the 2019 symposium.


Posters

[ POSTERS ]

Posters

PDFs can be viewed by clicking on the poster title.

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Sponsors

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Sponsors

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