OHDSI Italia 

Background 

In Italy, as in Europe, the interest revolving around the OHDSI program and the OMOP Common Data Model is growing in the last years. Academic research groups, data partners (e.g. hospitals and registries) and SMEs, thanks also to the drive provided by the EHDEN project, are, each from their own point of view, paying more and more attention to the different aspects that characterize the heterogeneous community of OHDSI. 

The "OHDSI Italia" node wants to be a point of reference and meeting place for all these Italian realities, in order to exploit each other's experiences in approaching the international community as well as to address typically national issues that would find little space / interest in other OHDSI working groups.  

Objectives 

The main objectives of "OHDSI Italia" are: 

  • Promote OMOP/OHDSI  
    • through dissemination events 
    • by adding new members and data partners to the national node 
  • Promote national projects 
    • ICT (e.g. Health Big Data) 
    • Observational studies 
  • Coordinate dialogue with  
    • Local Regions 
    • Ministry of research and Ministry of health 
    • Existing projects 
  • Contribute to the OHDSI community 
  • Mapping Italian terminologies and codes on OMOP 
    • National codes: e.g. AIC codes for drugs (Federfarma) 
    • Regional codes 
  • Define common administrative procedures 
    • DPO approval 
    • EC approval 
    • AGID guidelines (for public entities) 
    • Internal SOP / IO 

Leading Organisation 

Dr. Lucia Sacchi
Laboratory for Biomedical Informatics "Mario Stefanelli"
Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering
University of Pavia, Italy
Chair SIBIM (Società Italiana di Informatica Biomedica - www.sibim.it)
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Members 

Name 

Organisation 

Lucia Sacchi 

University of Pavia, SIBIM (Italian Society for Biomedical Informatics) 

Riccardo Bellazzi 

University of Pavia 

Matteo Gabetta 

Biomeris 

Mauro Bucalo 

Biomeris 

Eleonora Ferretti 

AUSL-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia 

Gianluigi Galli

Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico 

Paolo Baili 

Fondazione Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori 

Annalisa Trama 

Fondazione Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori 

Sara Boveri 

IRCCS Policlinico San Donato 

Emanuele Girani 

IRCCS Policlinico San Donato 

Irene Tramacere 

Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta 

Nicola Gentili 

IRCCS Istituto Romagnolo per lo Studio dei Tumori (IRST) "Dino Amadori" 

Valentina Tibollo 

Istituto Maugeri IRCCS 

Matteo Puntoni 

Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria di Parma 

Silvia Lazzarelli

Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria di Parma

Luigia Scudeller 

Policlinico S. Orsola-Malpighi, Bologna

Giuseppe Caruana 

IRCCS ISMETT  

Catherine Klersy 

Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia 

Riccardo Spizzo 

IRCCS Centro di Riferimento Oncologico, Aviano 

Mirko Orsini

DataRiver

Enrico Calanchi

DataRiver

Dario Montermini

PGMD

Matteo Spezia

PGMD

Stefano Dalmiani

Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio per la Ricerca Medica e di Sanità Pubblica

Mario Cannataro

Università di Catanzaro 

Massimo Caprino

Casa di Cura Privata del Policlinico, Milano

Massimo Corbo

Casa di Cura Privata del Policlinico, Milano

Marco Foracchia

AUSL IRCCS Reggio Emilia

Giulio Gatti

AUSL IRCCS Reggio Emilia

Rina Mirandola

Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata Verona

Simone Aveotti

AOU Meyer IRCCS

Marco Albini

IRCCS Istituto Clinico Humanitas

Giacomo Crotti

ATS Bergamo

Lorenzo Chiudinelli

ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII Bergamo

Data Partners 

Organisation 

Type 

Link 

Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta 

Research hospital (Neurological) 

https://www.istituto-besta.it/ 

Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico 

Research hospital (General) 

https://www.policlinico.mi.it/ 

Fondazione Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori 

Research hospital (Oncological) 

https://www.istitutotumori.mi.it/ 

IRCCS Policlinico San Donato 

Research hospital (General) 

https://www.grupposandonato.it/strutture/policlinico-san-donato 

Istituto Maugeri IRCCS 

Research hospital (Rehabilitation) 

https://www.icsmaugeri.it/ 

IRCCS Istituto Romagnolo per lo Studio dei Tumori (IRST) "Dino Amadori"

Research hospital (Oncological) 

https://www.irst.emr.it/it/ 

Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Parma 

General hospital  

https://www.ao.pr.it/ 

Policlinico S.Orsola-Malpighi, Bologna 

General hospital  

https://www.aosp.bo.it/ 

IRCCS ISMETT - Istituto Mediterraneo per i Trapianti, Palermo 

Research hospital (Transplants)  

https://www.ismett.edu/it/ 

Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia 

Research hospital (General) 

http://www.sanmatteo.org/

IRCCS Centro di Riferimento Oncologico, Aviano 

Research hospital (Oncological) 

https://www.cro.sanita.fvg.it/it/ 

Casa di Cura Privata del Policlinico, Milano

Neurological hospital https://www.ccppdezza.it/ 

Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio per la Ricerca Medica e di Sanità Pubblica

Cardiological hospital https://www.monasterio.it/

AUSL IRCCS Reggio Emilia

Research hospital (General)  https://www.ausl.re.it/

Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata Verona

General hospital  https://www.aovr.veneto.it/ 

ATS Bergamo

Health Agency https://www.ats-bg.it/

ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII di Bergamo

General Hospital https://www.asst-pg23.it/

How to get involved? 

To get onboard the "OHDSI Italia" node, please complete this FORM. If you haven't already done it, please subscribe also the OHDSI Community and the working groups you prefer (IMPORTANT: you need to select at least the "Europe" chapter in section #6 of the form)