Extract, Transform and Load

This course describes Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) processes to take your database from raw observational data to the OMOP Common Data Model. Steps 1 and 2 will focus on the tools available for designing ETL logic in a way to communicate to a developer how source data should be handled during conversion to the OMOP Common … Read more

Population-level Effect Estimation

In this module you will be able to gain deeper insights into population-level effect estimation. We cover one specific type of population-level effect estimation method for generating clinical evidence: comparative cohort studies. The course presents a framework for formulating comparative effect research questions and discusses what makes good and bad questions. It furthermore describes how … Read more

EHDEN Foundation

The aim of the EHDEN foundation course is to explain first and foremost what the EHDEN project aims to achieve, how it will do this and what the final result will be. However, no project stands alone and therefore we provide more context on how EU research is being done, why real world evidence is … Read more

ATLAS

ATLAS is a free, publicly available web-based, open-source software application developed by the OHDSI community to support the design and execution of observational analyses to generate real world evidence from patient level observational data. In this course, Patrick Ryan will walk you through the key features of ATLAS and how to use them to design … Read more

OMOP CDM and Standardised Vocabularies

This course gives an introduction into the history of the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP) and the birth of Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI). It highlights OHDSI’s vision as well as how OHDSI is trying to drive the future of observational research through network studies. The course will then move on to understanding … Read more

OHDSI-in-a-box

In this course you will learn how to quickly deploy OHDSI-in-a-Box, which is a single instance implementation of OHDSI tools and sample data for personal learning and training environments. OHDSI-in-a-Box contains SynPUF data in OMOP CDM, an RDBS including query client, WebAPI, ATLAS, R and Python. In the end of the course we optionally introduce … Read more

Two new academy courses are now available covering Patient-level Prediction and Population-level Effect Estimation!

As an early Christmas gift, we’ve launched not one, but two new courses in the EHDEN Academy! The population-level effect estimation course focuses on the methodology for generating clinical evidence by performing comparative cohort studies. The course presents a framework for formulating comparative effect research questions and discusses what makes good and bad questions. It … Read more

New Academy course now available: Phenotype Definition, Characterisation and Evaluation!

We are pleased to announce that we’ve just launched the next course in the EHDEN Academy, teaching you deeper insights into phenotype definition, characterisation and evaluation, using ATLAS, Cohort Diagnostics and the PheValuator tool. This is a fundamental aspect of the OHDSI framework for conducting observational research. In a stepwise approach, you will be guided … Read more

New Academy course now available: Learn all about the ATLAS tool!

We are pleased to announce that we’ve just launched a new course in the EHDEN Academy, teaching you how to use the ATLAS toolset. ATLAS is a free, publicly available web-based, open-source software application developed by the OHDSI community. ATLAS supports the design and execution of analyses across one or more observational databases which have … Read more

EHDEN Academy Goes Live as Free Resource in Real-World Health Research

Brussels, Belgium, 23 April, 2020: The European Health Data & Evidence Network (EHDEN) today announced the launch of the EHDEN Academy in Europe as an online educational resource for anyone working in the domain of real-world data use, and real-world evidence generation, with the aim of becoming a primary resource. An IMI2 (Innovative Medicines Initiative) … Read more