Establish a Portuguese Research Network based on OMOP

• Promote national and international research initiatives and observational studies
• Contribute to a nationally standardized database
• Promote a National Network involving the industry and academic institutions

Create and share deliverables

• Best practices for data-driven healthcare research
• ETL processes
• Data Quality
• Vocabulary improvement and national/regional codes mapping (e.g. CHNM, ICD10, DRG)
• Define common administrative procedures to streamline research collaborations (DPO approval, Ethics Committee approval, etc)

Find a Portuguese OHDSI multi-stakeholder interest group

• Involve local Portuguese stakeholders in the community, while actively working to expand the network of partners
• Provide technical and operational support to potential new data partners
• Promote regular meetings between the national and international communities to share knowledge and promote knowledge sharing
• Encourage members' active engagement in OHDSI/EHDEN activities at the European level
• Coordinate and communicate with national policy institutions, regarding projects and expectations
• Disseminate the value of OMOP-CDM more widely by organizing events and activities for academia, healthcare organizations, regulatory bodies, and industry partners

Governance Model

• The objective of the proposed governance model is to define the annual workplan and responsibilities of the Portuguese Data Node Members.
• Leading Organization: Promote trimestral meetings; Define trimestral meeting agenda and share their outcomes; Responsible by the relationship management with EHDEN, data nodes, and other entities; Share information with other data node members.
• Data node members: Research and share information with data node leading organization; Active participation in the promoted meetings; Available to present developed work with data node members.