OHDSI Austria - National Node
Local Collaboration. European Impact.
The Austrian OHDSI Node was established to support ongoing national efforts regarding OHDSI OMOP Common Data Model (CDM) adoption. Various institutions across Austria are contributing to integrating structured clinical data, including electronic health records (e.g. ELGA) and patient-reported outcomes, into the OMOP framework. The node aims to coordinate the activities, promote collaboration, facilitate knowledge exchange, and connect Austrian stakeholders to the international OHDSI community. Formal Launch: November 10, 2025 Led by Medical University of Vienna (Adnan Jouned) and Co-lead by AIT Austrian Institute of Technology (Karl Kreiner)
Community Snapshot
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mailing list subscribers
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LinkedIn followers / Social media
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data partners
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hospital networks / active organisations
Objectives
- Support sustainable OMOP adoption across Austrian hospitals, research groups, and organisations.
- Build an open OHDSI Austria community where members (academia, healthcare, industry) share knowledge, tools, and best practices for health data standardization.
- Grow a national learning community that shares solutions, code, mappings, and implementation experience.
- Collaborative cross-institutional research Enable cross-institutional observational studies using standardized data. By connecting previously siloed datasets via the OMOP model, we can identify national research opportunities and perform studies with larger, more representative patient populations. OHDSI Austria will facilitate multi-center study collaborations within Austria and contribute to international network studies using OMOP data. Our ongoing efforts in data standardization aim to potentially contribute to the future realization of the European Health Data Space (EHDS).
- Surface national needs and opportunities within OHDSI Europe community and policy discussions.
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Focus areas
- Health Data Research Hub Project (HDRH), Medical University of Innsbruck
- H2O Project, Medical University of Vienna
- IDERHA, Medical University of Vienna & Vienna University of Applied Science
- D4Health + Smart Fox + PräNUDGE, AIT
- NICA Project, Joanneum Research
- Data quality assessment
- Hospital & register data
- Disease-specific areas (IBD, Diabetes, oncology, cardiology, ...)
- Mapping support / terminology harmonization
How to join OHDSI Austria?
Governance
- Lead Institution: Medical University of Vienna - Adnan Jouned -
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Co-Lead Institution: AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH – Karl Kreiner–
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - The Node follows a lightweight, inclusive governance model, with a core group that ensures representation across hospital networks and stakeholder types.
- Join the OHDSI Community and select the Europe chapter: https://www.ohdsi.org/community/
- Request to be added to the Austria mailing list / newsletter:
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Participate in open national events and working groups.
Join the OHDSI Community and select the Europe chapter:
www.ohdsi.org/community/Contact us:
Activities
Useful resources
- Paper:
- Katsch, F., Hussein, R., Stamm, T., & Duftschmid, G. (2025). Converting Health Level 7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) documents to Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership Common Data Model (OMOP CDM) by leveraging CDA Template definitions. JAMIA Open, 8(2). https://doi.org/10.1093/JAMIAOPEN/OOAF022
- Katsch, F., Mészáros, Á., Héja, T., Hussein, R., & Duftschmid, G. (2025). Semiautomatic mapping of a national drug terminology to standardised OMOP drug concepts using publicly available supplementary information. BMC Medical Research Methodology 2025 25:1, 25(1), 213-. https://doi.org/10.1186/S12874-025-02669-0
- Baumgartner, M., Kreiner, K., Lauschensky, A., Jammerbund, B., Donsa, K., Hayn, D., Wiesmüller, F., Demelius, L., Modre-Osprian, R., Neururer, S., Slamanig, G., Prantl, S., Brunelli, L., Pfeifer, B., Pölzl, G., & Schreier, G. (2024). Health data space nodes for privacy-preserving linkage of medical data to support collaborative secondary analyses. Frontiers in Medicine, 11, 1301660. https://doi.org/10.3389/FMED.2024.1301660/TEXT
- Beyer, S., Tanjga, N., Kleinoscheg, G., Hayn, D., Donsa, K., Kreiner, K., & Schreier, G. (2025). Preparing for the European Health Data Space: an open-source compiler for fast, transparent, and portable health data transformations. Frontiers in Medicine, 12, 1661091. https://doi.org/10.3389/FMED.2025.1661091/TEXT
- Jouned, A., Düsseldorf, H., Katsch, F., Jafarpour, M., & Duftschmid, G. (2025). Comparative Study of ETL Tools for Transforming Healthcare Data to the OMOP Common Data Model (CDM). Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 327, 1238–1239. https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI250590
- Stampfer, P., Hochwarter, S., Zoebinger, E., Libiseller, A., Lichtenegger, K., & Feichtner, F. (2025). N!CA: Towards Digitalisation of Innovative Care Processes to Unburden and Empower Nurses. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 327, 416–417. https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI250364
- Git Repos:
- Austrian drug code mapping (PZN / ASP-Liste): https://gitlab.com/muv-mim/pzn-rx and https://gitlab.com/muv-mim/pzn-rx-matching
- Usagi CSV to FHIR converter: https://gitlab.com/muv-mim/UsagiCSV-to-FHIR
- A WhiteRabbit alternative to read HL7 Templates Standard documents: https://mimapps.meduniwien.ac.at/gitlab/omop/cdarabbit
- Workshop at dHealth 2026 — Vienna, 12th &13th of May, Vienna: https://dhealth.at/programme/
Upcoming events
- Workshop at dHealth 2026 — Vienna, 12th &13th of May, Vienna: https://dhealth.at/programme/
Contributing organizations (selected)
The Austria Node includes organizations active in local node activities.
This is not an exhaustive list and will evolve as the community grows.
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