make individual OHDSI vocabularies more approachable
facilitate understanding of OHDSI's vocabularies and concepts, relationships between them, and their prevelance in a specific CDM
facilitate translation from individual source concepts for cohort or phenotype definition and for ETL work
facilitate development or translation of concept sets
provide tools and interface for classification/granularity selection in other contexts (e.g., patient profiles)
towards these ends:
develop detailed requirements, designs, and prototypes
implement in ATLAS if and when resources are available
use cases:
define a cohort or phenotype (needed by ATLAS users):
translate existing phenotype definition (e.g., set of ICD-9 codes for some condition) from a source vocabulary into a target vocabulary
explore the whole set of OHDSI vocabularies:
needed in Athena
to improve and debug the vocabularies
in general
only for concepts in user's CDM
for a specific domain:
e.g., provider specialty, show record counts for all values including zero counts for specialties not used; maybe also show corresponding source values and source values that weren't able to be mapped to a target. (provider.specialty_concept_id, provider.specialty_source_value, provider.specialty_source_concept_id, care_site.specialty_concept_id, care_site.specialty_source_value)
to better understand relationships between source and target domains
to better understand classifications available
source(s) to target(s):
find mapped or matching codes, classification or standard
in target code(s) selected, see which source codes are added or left out and counts of corresponding patient records
find a concept:
have immediate feedback on CDM records with concept
see relationships to other concepts and be encouraged to assure one has chosen correctly
explore my popupaltion:
overall
in terms of some domain
defining a subpopulation (same as 1)
intersecion of subpopulations
Patrick's SNOMED navigation strategy:
using related concepts filter on Class, choose Has ancestor of from Relationship facet, filter on Distance facet