Observational health data holds the power to provide new insights in the clinical field, but in a European network with varying data ontologies, data structures and IT-systems, this proves to be a challenging task. To tackle this issue, a shift in[…]

After already attending the first European OHDSI Symposium in March 2018, I now had the pleasure of visiting the annual symposium in Washington in October. Representing the Hyve together with Kees, we learned about all the developments going on in[…]

Everyone involved in scientific research knows that the credibility of conclusions drawn from a study, increases with the number of participants. As Big Data has enabled analysis of medical data from large numbers of patients and a vast number of[…]

The first OHDSI Symposium in Europe will be held in Rotterdam (NL) on March 23 2018, hosted by the Erasmus Medical Centre. As with previous international OHDSI symposiums, Maxim and Kees will attend the meeting. Stefan, Julia, Irina, and Marinel[…]

One of the solutions that can greatly help you in your research on observational data is OHDSI, an open source platform for Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (see this page for an introduction to OHDSI and the concept of[…]

Almost 400 attendees from all over the world, came together during the annual OHDSI symposium, to discuss the progress of the OHDSI platform. From The Hyve, Kees and I attended. During the symposium I gave a talk on the transformation of Swedish EHR[…]

An important part of ETL to the OMOP CDM is mapping the source concepts to the standard concepts in the OMOP vocabulary. This can be as straight forward as mapping ICD-10 codes to SNOMED or as difficult as mapping a national drug vocabulary to[…]

The second annual OHDSI symposium took place in Washington, USA, on September 23-24 2016, and we were there! Maxim Moinat and Kees van Bochove went to the symposium to learn about the news and most recent events happening in the community, to[…]