OHDSI Germany

Who we are 

Founded in Spring 2021, OHDSI Germany is now part of the worldwide OHDSI community and belongs to OHDSI Europe. We bring together experts in medicine and informatics from research and industry in Germany to form an interdisciplinary and cross-sector interest and working group. 

We aim to empower German clinicians and researchers to develop and use best practices and lessons learned to participate in international studies of the OHDSI network. For this we offer a platform to share and discuss approaches, tools and methods as well as to collaborate on new research. 

We are happy to collaborate with other working groups from OHDSI and share best practices to learn from each other.

Objectives

  1. Establish German University hospital research network on OMOP for OHDSI
    1. Generate own study pipe + integrate the pipeline into the structure of the German Medical Informatics Initiative 
    2. Participation in EMA studies and other international studies 
  2. Create and share deliverables
    1. OMOP infrastructure for German hospitals 
    2. ETL processes 
    3. Vocabulary extension and improvement 
    4. Provide German synthetic data for demos and testing 
    5. Data quality solutions tailored for German requirements
  3. Found a German OHDSI multi-stakeholder interest group
    1. Involve German local stakeholder 
    2. Provide guidance to those who want to participate 
  4. Administrative work in terms of German data security laws and ethics
    1. Exchange of data protection concepts, data use requests and applications to the ethics committee 

Scientific Work 

to be added - not finished yet

       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       

Participation and Contact 

 You can find latest news, working groups and chats in the MS Teams Workgroup OHDSI Europe. 

 Join our monthly OHDSI Germany Call 

Every second Thursday of the month 02:00 pm to 3:00 pm CET 

To receive the invitation for our monthly call, please let us know and fill out the Google Form.

Contact us directly

Michele Zoch 
Research Associate  
Institute for Medical Informatics and Biometry,
Carl Gustav Carus Faculty of Medicine,
Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany 
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Dr. Ines Reinecke 
Head of the Data Integration Centre,
Data Integration Centre,
Center for Medical Informatics,
University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden, Dresden, Germany,
 
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