Medical decision-making is difficult. Patients and providers alike are often challenged with trying to keep up with the latest information about all of the alternative treatments, and there is increasing pressure to learn from the real world experience of patients to…
At some point in life we all become patients, and high-quality medical care is one of the most generic needs of mankind. Such care must be based on all the quantitative and hard evidence available about treatment options. Today, not a…
Researchers from many different disciplines — epidemiologists, statisticians, medical informaticists, computer scientists, and clinicians — are trying to generate evidence from observational health data. As a community, we still have a lot of work to do in order to generate…
There are many organizations which are trying to learn from observational health data: Insurance companies have claims data that can tell them about their beneficiaries Health systems like hospitals and doctor’s offices have electronic health records that provide clinical care…
We fulfill OHDSI’s mission through building large-scale analysis of observational health databases for population-level estimation and patient-level predictions. We are deeply committed to our core principle that the products of our work – all of the tools we develop and…
Name Title Organization Hamed Abedtash, PharmD, PhD Research Scientist – Real World Evidence Global Patient Outcome Real World Evidence (GPORWE), Eli Lilly & Company Amruta Agarwal Business Technology Associate Consultant ZS Associates Eun Kyoung Ahn, RN, PhD…
Join The Journey As a community, we are collaborating towards improving health outcomes for patients around the world. To achieve this goal, we are developing open-source analytic tools and generating high-quality evidence to inform medical decision making. Whether you’re a…
Data standardization If we want to achieve quality, efficiency, and transparency of observational research, we need to standardize the structure, content, and analytics in such a way that they can optimally support our specific use cases. We have adopted…
Our Mission To improve health by empowering a community to collaboratively generate the evidence that promotes better health decisions and better care. Our Vision A world in which observational research produces a comprehensive understanding of health and disease. Our Values…