Content Comparison

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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• Talk Search: https://talk.openmrs.org/tag/omop & https://talk.openmrs.org/search?q=omop

  • 2015 OMOD Project: 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?

    • https://github.com/maurya/openmrs-module-ohdsi ← Repo

    • “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

    • OHDSI module Documentation

    • OpenMRS Support for the OHDSI Projecthttps://github.com/maurya/openmrs-module-ohdsi ← Repo

    • OpenMRS Support for the OHDSI Project

  • People of Interest:

    • 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)

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