January 31, 2017, first meeting

Attendees: Peter, Lisa, Anthony, Mark, Gowtham, Kristin, Walter, Melanie, Christian, Patrick, Hugh, Greg, Devang

Agenda

• Introductions
  • Peter from Erasmus, for design defining cohorts, also for ETL/mapping of new Netherlands vocabularies, needing broader overview as user
  • Hugh, was at Bristol Meyers Squib, would like to help – we'll see how
  • Kristin from Deloitte (and Walter), specialize in Life Sciences and using CDMs, spend time in vocabs help people work through taxonomies. Here as users and coders/etc. Seeing many use cases. Want to support making vocabs more usable. Wants to help curate and look at usability in visualization. Deloitte can get current tool running locally.
  • Christian
  • Lisa at University of Colorado
  • Gowtham at Blue Cross/Blue Shield
  • Greg, Odysseus, mapping vocabs and working on Athena
  • Mark, Outcome Insights, Jigsaw tool relies on CDM
  • Melanie – wants to see better visualization of relationships and lack thereof, and help with concept
  • Devang, Cognizant – want to address how source vocabularies fail to map to OMOP vocabs?
• Quick demo
• Review notes
• Aims of group
• People describe roles they'd like to play. My initial ideas:
  • Leaders:
    • Clair
    • Sigfried
  • Subject matter experts:
    • Christian
    • Frank
    • Anthony
    • Patrick
  • Target users:
    • Melanie
    • Peter
    • Lisa
    • Gowtham
    • Mark H
    • Devang
  • Coders:
    • Sigfried
    • ???
    • Greg, Odysseus – run locally?
    • Mark
    • Devang
  • Design and use case curation:
    • Deloitte
    • Hugh
  • Usability:
    • Deloitte (Kristin, Walter, etc.), will get running locally
  • Kibitzers:
    • (everyone welcome)
  • Documentation
    • Lisa, maybe Melanie, start wiki or documentation