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====== Psychiatry Working Group ======

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====Group Objectives====
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  * **Data harmonization in psychiatry and neurology**: address challenges associated with harmonizing data across various domains within psychiatry to ensure consistency and accuracy in data representation.
  * **Vocabulary understanding and refinement**: improve understanding of the OMOP Vocabularies and effectively modify vocabulary content, facilitating better data interoperability and analysis.
  * **OMOP model adoption and expansion**: facilitate the transition of existing psychiatric data into the OMOP model, guaranteeing structured and standardized data for optimal utility within the framework.
  * **Learning and collaboration**: foster a community of practice where members can share experiences, learn from each other, and collaborate on projects to advance the field.  

====Key Areas of Focus====
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  * **Expansion of clinical vocabulary:** enhancing the clinical vocabulary related to neurology and psychiatry, including scores, scales, questionnaires, and ontologies, to accurately classify instruments based on their diagnostic use.
  * **Landscape analysis:** performing a comprehensive analysis of data currently available in the OMOP format, aiming to identify gaps and opportunities for further research and application.
  * **Comparative studies:** conducting studies to compare different treatment modalities as part of broader efforts to characterize psychiatry-specific datasets.
  * **Community contribution:** encouraging and integrating insights and inputs from the broader psychiatric and medical community to enrich the OMOP model's vocabulary and datasets.

====Audience====
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  * Psychiatrists and Clinical Psychologists
  * Medical Researchers
  * Health Data Scientists
  * Pharmacologists and Psychopharmacologists
  * Healthcare Policy Makers
  * Educators and Students in Psychiatry and Mental Health Fields
  * Digital Health Technology Developers

However, we //warmly invite all individuals// passionate about enhancing the OMOP CDM and Standardized Vocabularies with a focus on neurology and psychiatry, aiming to address a broad spectrum of needs and use cases. 

====Meetings====
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Our monthly Working Group meetings take place on the first Wednesday of each month. You can find the link to join us below.

[[https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ae06f095aae9f4b0caec1e517d174f0ba%40thread.tacv2/1640084688365?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22a30f0094-9120-4aab-ba4c-e5509023b2d5%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22b51e3da5-58a5-41ee-9dee-846a3da15967%22%7d|OHDSI Psychiatry WG Meeting Series]] 9AM UCT-4 (EDT)

====Project Leads and Group Members====
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  * [[https://www.ohdsi.org/who-we-are/collaborators/dmitry-dymshyts|Dmitry Dymshyts]]
  * [[https://forums.ohdsi.org/u/shilparatwani/|Shilpa Ratwani]]
  * [[https://www.ohdsi.org/who-we-are/collaborators/andrew-williams/|Andrew Williams]]
  * [[https://www.ohdsi.org/who-we-are/collaborators/polina-talapova/|Polina Talapova]]
  * [[http://www.ohdsi.org/web/wiki/doku.php?id=projects:workgroups:psych-wg:members|Workgroup Members]]

====Resourses====
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  * [[https://github.com/OHDSI/PsychiatryWG|Psychiatry WG GitHub Repo]]
  * [[https://github.com/OHDSI/PsychiatryWG/issues|Psychiatry WG Ongoing Tasks]]
  * [[https://teams.microsoft.com/l/channel/19%3Ae06f095aae9f4b0caec1e517d174f0ba%40thread.tacv2/General?groupId=55abe23c-f1a5-489b-8231-8e61adb78351&tenantId=|Psychiatry WG Teams Channel]]
  * [[documentation:psychiatry:recording|Meeting Recordings]]
  * [[documentation:psychiatry:forum|Forum discussions]]
  * [[documentation:psychiatry:presentations|Presentations]]

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