OHDSI Norway

Background

In 2022, an informal forum for sharing experience with OMOP in Norway was initiated. The forum served data partners and other stakeholders interested in OMOP. In 2023, it became an official OHDSI National Node.

The vision for the Norwegian National Node (NOR-OMOP) is to enhance observational health research in Norway with the use of OMOP CDM and the OHDSI-toolkit.

Objectives

The aim of the node is to provide a forum for sharing experience, insights and discuss aspects of implementing and performing research using OMOP in Norway. The node should be visible so that potential new Norwegian data partners or researchers can join to learn and contribute.

Specific objectives are:

Conduct regular (minimum every quarter) node meetings open to interested parties with the objective as described above.
Maintain a node webpage with information and contact details.
Work towards avoiding duplicate mapping efforts of Norwegian data.
Facilitate common Nordic OMOP-work, for instance mapping of common vocabularies used in the Nordic countries.

In addition, we will contribute to the OHDSI network, support its mission and be a contact point for Norway within OHDSI.

The NOR-OMOP-node has Teams-meetings once a month, and have a national channel in the OHDSI Europe Teams environment. The NOR-OMOP-node is also part of the Nordic-OMOP fora with partners from the other Nordic countries.

Leading Organisation

Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Cancer Registry of Norway
Ullernchausseen 64, 0379 Oslo, Norway

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Member organisations

Organisation

Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Cancer Registry of Norway

Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Health data

Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Physical Health and Ageing

Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Chronic Diseases

Norwegian Directorate of Health

Oslo University Hospital

University of Oslo

Norwegian Centre for E-health Research

Helseplattformen (Epic EHR)

Data Partners

Data Source Name	Organization	Data Type	Website
NHR@UIO	University of Oslo	Registry	PharmacoEpidemiology and Drug Safety (PharmaSafe) - Department of Pharmacy (uio.no)
OUS	Oslo University Hospital	EHR	https://www.oslo-universitetssykehus.no/
CRN	Cancer Registry of Norway	Registry	https://www.fhi.no/en/cancer/

How to contribute?

If you are interested to join or learn more about the Norwegian national node you may contact us directly at:

Espen Enerly
Researcher
Department of Research, Cancer Registry of Norway
Norwegian Institute of Public Health
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Siri Larønningen
Senior Advisor
Department of Registration, Cancer Registry of Norway
Norwegian Institute of Public Health
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