How to stratify COVID19 cases at scale to characterize course of SEVERE disease using only internationally readily available EHR data. #4CE #CriticalCare #ICU #hospitalization

Get ready for Interop. Here is the 21st Century Cures Act API timeline. SMART Health IT healthit.gov/curesrule/over… 2022 for full on SMART/FHIR APIs. (hope these don’t get pushed back for COVID. COVID response needs these technologies!)

I would like to share the story of how a patient with cancer came up with the idea for a randomized trial, & how listening to him saved a lot of lives. 1/ In 2002, I had just completed a randomized trial with the notorious drug thalidomide for the cancer, multiple myeloma.

Great article using international EMR data from 12 sites to predict death and ICU admission--machine learning does better at some sites but overfits and doesn't port as well as code classes Shyam Visweswaran academic.oup.com/jamia/advance-…

What Every Reader Should Know About Studies Using Electronic Health Record Data but May be Afraid to Ask JMIR Publications buff.ly/3pFxWSu Especially in light of public missteps in #COVID19 publications. key issues reviewed by international members of #4CE buff.ly/3brfdEV

Fantastic crowd at #AMIA2022 workshop on i2b2, OMOP, and REDCap!

Cheers to the first #ACHIP class! #AMIA2022