ROMOP: a light-weight R package for interfacing with OMOP-formatted electronic health record data.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Electronic health record (EHR) data are increasingly used for biomedical discoveries. The nature of the data, however, requires expertise in both data science and EHR structure. The Observational Medical Out-comes Partnership (OMOP) common data model (CDM) standardizes the language and structure of EHR data to promote interoperability of EHR data for research. While the OMOP CDM is valuable and more attuned to research purposes, it still requires extensive domain knowledge to utilize effectively, potentially limiting more widespread adoption of EHR data for research and quality improvement.

Materials and methods

We have created ROMOP: an R package for direct interfacing with EHR data in the OMOP CDM format.

Results

ROMOP streamlines typical EHR-related data

SUBMITTER: Glicksberg BS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6800657 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature