[Use Case]: SDoH and Environmental database and related toolkits

[Chesterguan]

Description

The database and related toolkits are intended to be designed and applied with OMOP CDM to introduce SDoH and Environmental datasets into the healthcare research.

The purpose and the ultimate plan is to provide researchers and community with a public, standardized, convenient and AI-ready database and tools to apply with the SDoH and environmental datasets to enrich the healthcare data domains and potentially discover the new research topics.

Infrastructure

Current GaiaCore infrastructure is good enough to conduct the research, below modules may be considered or added to accelerate the data integration and provide a better data serving functionalities:

• A Python based Gaia framework
• A well-designed, user-friendly data catalog interface
• A well-designed, user-friendly and customizable data visualization interface
• SDoH and Environmental data vocabulary and concepts mapping
• A few sample pilot projects

Timeline

2024-March:

• Finish the POC of the SDoH and Environmental database
• Finish the POC of data catalog and data ingestion tools
• Implement add-hoc module to convert current DB to gaiaDB

2024-April:

• Finish the POC of data visualization tool

2024-May:

• Test the db and toolkits with some minor pilot projects

2024-June:

• Release the tool for public
• Collect feedback from public

Above timeline is drafted based on initial plan, no final decision made yet.

Credit

1. Manuscripts
2. Poster in some conference
3. OHDSI community exposure

Support

1. A better guidance of SDoH and Environmental vocabulary and standardization
2. A better guidance of publishing the toolkits if possible

Datasets of Interest

Will share internally with GIS working team

Depends On

No response

[kzollove]

• Would like example of full workflow
• Have a separate geometry table, but would like to determine a crosswalk/conversion to OHDSI GIS structure: combination of all variable columns for one table
• Kyle will meet with Jiahang and others offline to discuss this problem and will set up some documentation tasks after that