The burden of obesity inferred through high precision rules

An interesting presentation by Ted Pedersen on finding obesity morbidities in i2b2 records.

Major Depressive Disorder

German i2b2 implementations move forward

Thanks to Sebastian Mate for this update on the first German Academic i2b2-Workshop.

They had visitors from the universities of Goettingen, Ulm, Hannover, Giessen and Leipzig. Some of them had to travel hundreds of miles (see attached map) to visit them in Erlangen. Goettingen and Leipzig have i2b2 instances running, the others will try it out.

Topics covered included at the meeting:
(1) Clinical Data Warehouse in Erlangen(2) i2b2 Overview, motivation and work in Erlangen(3) i2b2 in 30 Minutes - how the Erlangen Package works, with live-installation ;-)(4) The simple SQL-based Erlangen ETL approach - how we load data into the hive(5) i2b2 HIS-mapping - how we map hundreds of attributes from our HIS into the i2b2 instance (ONT and CRC)(6) TMF PID-Generator and i2b2(7) TMF Pseudonymization Service

RA

Discussed the SNP's on the genotyped data and how the continent of origin and the PHS labels of ethnicity are highly concordant.