Plan/Method: Search across the following places and uncover existing work or findings on OpenMRS & OMOD: Google Scholar; OpenMRS Forum (Talk), OpenMRS Slack, OpenMRS Wiki, and Google generic.
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“Standardizing OpenMRS HIV Patient Data to OMOP CDM for Enhanced Analytics and Patient-Level Insights” by Moses Gwaza https://github.com/M-Gwaza/OpenMRS-to-OHDSI
Barry Levine: OpenMRS-OMOP Mapping & ETL paper and their findings: “Development of an OpenMRS-OMOP ETL Tool to Support Informatics Research and Collaboration in LMICS” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666990023000277
Juan Espinoza, Children's Hospital Los Angeles; Abu Sikder; Armine Lulejian, University of Southern California; Barry Levine
ETL approach to convert OMRS to OMOP: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12911-022-01965-9 or here
Poster: Implementation of the ARES application to monitor network-wide data quality and mapping coverage for 16 unique OMOP sources across Rwanda https://ohdsi-europe.org/images/symposium-2023/posters/houghtaling_laisdararesposter_2023_-_Jared_Houghtaling.pdf
Indirectly helpful:
This group outlines reasons they think OpenMRS can be difficult for researchers to query, and propose their own simpler EMR to make life easier for Researchers. We should review to see what we can learn from this: A simple electronic medical record system designed for research https://academic.oup.com/jamiaopen/article/4/3/ooab040/6332673?login=false
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Talk Search: https://talk.openmrs.org/tag/omop & https://talk.openmrs.org/search?q=omop
There was a previous attempt in 2015 to map OpenMRS to OMOP CDM, looks like it was led by Suaranga and Maurya: https://talk.openmrs.org/t/designing-the-openmrs-ohdsi-module/2251 Question to answer: Why didn’t this get more traction?
“Mapping between the OpenMRS database and the OHDSI CDM schema were completed by experts during a face to face meeting. You can find this at:” https://openmrs.atlassian.net/wiki/download/attachments/26935841/OpenMRS ETL.docx?api=v2
Andy Kanter, Burke Mamlin, and Julianna Kohler come up as the people most interested in the topic.
a member of the OHDSI community named Lee Evans (evans@ohdsi.org) developed a standard ETL script to move between OpenMRS and OMOP CDM in 2018: https://talk.openmrs.org/t/openmrs-and-ohdsi/24930/3
Member Shawn Dolley was interested in an initiative like this back in 2020: https://talk.openmrs.org/t/welcome-please-introduce-yourself/32/3350 . See also his post to the OHDSI community in 2016: https://forums.ohdsi.org/t/omop-use-in-global-epi-for-cdc-gates-foundation/1779
In 2021 OHDSI Africa Chapter First Meeting discussed how OMRS implementations would be able to port their data in OMOP: https://talk.openmrs.org/t/new-africa-ohdsi-group-start-up-for-people-interested-in-health-research-in-africa-thursday/33987
Nega Gebreyesus, Africa OHDSI Leader, was interested in 2022: https://talk.openmrs.org/t/africa-ohdsi-leader-in-malawi-this-month-april-may-2022-wants-to-meet-with-openmrs-implementers/36467
Wiki: https://openmrs.atlassian.net/wiki/search?text=ohdsi%20OR%20omop
Slack:
July 2024: Suggestion from Jan to review Health Data Research Gateway (done - see Other Helpful Tools below)
Google Generic Findings
Publications that nicely set the stage for this work:
“Conclusions: It is feasible to develop a free, open-source ETL pipeline to transform clinical data in OpenMRS instances into OMOP.” The OpenMRS System: Collaborating Toward an Open Source EMR for Developing Countries https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6563847_The_OpenMRS_System_Collaborating_Toward_an_Open_Source_EMR_for_Developing_Countries
OpenMRS & OHDSI Report by Andy Kanter, 2022: https://www.ohdsi.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/36-Kanter-OHDSIbriefreport.pdf
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