OHDSI NL 

Background 

Our vision is to advance observational health research on a national level using the OMOP CDM, and the OHDSI toolkit, as a common foundation. Our OHDSI NL node will serve as a unifier to help all involved forward on the journey towards more reliable and reproducible research. OHDSI NL will be coordinated by the Health Data Science group from Erasmus MC, which has a close link to both the EHDEN and DARWIN coordinating center.  

Objectives 

As a national node our objective is to create a local OHDSI community in the Netherlands. With a common healthcare system, coding systems and common EHR vendors uniting us, we face similar challenges when reusing healthcare data for observational research. Instead of dealing with these challenges individually, we hope to gain synergy from joining forces.  

In short, our goals are to:

• create a national community where we can learn from each other by sharing knowledge
• maintain an overview of national data partners & data sets mapped to the OMOP CDM
• generate exposure of OHDSI within the Dutch health research world
• build a network of knowledge to support (cross-institutional) observational research on a national level​
• convince and support data holders to map their data to the OMOP CDM​
• identify potential research opportunities on a national level​
• perform research with observational data on a national level​
• contribute to international network studies

Leading Organisation 

Renske Los & Aniek Markus
Department of Medical Informatics, 
Erasmus MC University Medical Center 
PO Box 2040, 3000 CA  Rotterdam, The Netherlands 
Visiting address: Na-2613, Dr. Molewaterplein 40, 3015 GD Rotterdam 
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Members 

Data Partners 

How to get involved? 

We would like to invite you to join our national node! Whether you are new to OHDSI or a veteran, together we can make a difference. Please fill out this form, and we will get in touch with you.