Evaluation and Challenges of Medical Procedure Data Harmonization to SNOMED-CT for Observational Research

Ines Reinecke; Michael Kallfelz; Martin Sedlmayr; Joscha Siebel; Franziska Bathelt

doi:10.3233/SHTI220484

Evaluation and Challenges of Medical Procedure Data Harmonization to SNOMED-CT for Observational Research

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2022 May 25;294:405-406. doi: 10.3233/SHTI220484.

Authors

Ines Reinecke¹, Michael Kallfelz², Martin Sedlmayr¹, Joscha Siebel¹, Franziska Bathelt¹

Affiliations

¹ Carl Gustav Carus Faculty of Medicine, Center for Medical Informatics, Institute for Medical Informatics and Biometry, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
² Odysseus Data Services GmbH, Berlin, Germany.

PMID: 35612106
DOI: 10.3233/SHTI220484

Abstract

The relevance of health data research on real world data (RWD) is increasing. To prepare national RWD for international research, harmonization with standard terminologies is required. In this paper, we evaluate to what extent the German OPS vocabulary in OHDSI covers codes present in RWD and mappings to SNOMED-CT. The evaluation identified a mapping gap of 21.1% in the RWD set.

Keywords: OHDSI; OMOP; OPS; SNOMED-CT; interoperability.

MeSH terms

Humans
Observational Studies as Topic
Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine*
Vocabulary*