The COVID-19 Research Network Lower Saxony (COFONI) is a German state network of experts in Coronavirus research and development of strategies for future pandemics. One of the pillars of the COFONI technology platform is its established research data repository (Available at https://forschungsdb.cofoni.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The reuse of data from electronic health records (EHRs) for research purposes promises to improve the data foundation for clinical trials and may even support to enable them. Nevertheless, EHRs are characterized by both, heterogeneous structure and semantics. To standardize this data for research, the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP) Common Data Model (CDM) standard has recently seen an increase in use.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMaking health data available for secondary use enables innovative data-driven medical research. Since modern machine learning (ML) methods and precision medicine require extensive amounts of data covering most of the standard and edge cases, it is essential to initially acquire large datasets. This can typically only be achieved by integrating different datasets from various sources and sharing data across sites.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe German Corona Consensus (GECCO) established a uniform dataset in FHIR format for exchanging and sharing interoperable COVID-19 patient specific data between health information systems (HIS) for universities. For sharing the COVID-19 information with other locations that use openEHR, the data are to be converted in FHIR format. In this paper, we introduce our solution through a web-tool named "openEHR-to-FHIR" that converts compositions from an openEHR repository and stores in their respective GECCO FHIR profiles.
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