Empowering knowledge generation through international data network: the IMeCCHI-DATANETWORK.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The International Methodology Consortium for Coded Health Information (IMeCCHI) is a collaboration of health services researchers who promote methodological advances in coded health information. The IMeCCHI-DATANETWORK initiative focuses on developing a multi-purpose distributed data infrastructure and common data model (CDM) to enable cross-border data sharing and international comparisons.

Methods

IMeCCHI consortium partners from six different countries - Canada, Denmark, Italy, New Zealand, South Korea, and Switzerland - used a questionnaire to describe their original databases which differ in size, structure, content and coding systems. To standardize these data, they agreed on a CDM and mapped their population-based databases to meet the CDM specifications.

SUBMITTER: Otero Varela L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7473294 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature