COVID-19 Knowledge Accelerator (COKA) Daily Progress November 16, 2020

[Brian Alper]

9 people (BA, BK, EA, HL, JD, KS, MA, RC, TN-R) participated today in up to 3 active working group meetings.

 

You are welcome to join the Code System Development effort -- see Invitation to join Expert Working Group. At this time we currently have 61 people signed up from 27 countries In 6 continents (Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Egypt, Finland, France, Ghana, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Nigeria, Peru, Romania, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States)

 

The Project Management Group reviewed goals for improving website introductions to the COVID-19 Knowledge Accelerator (https://www.gps.health/covid19_knowledge_accelerator.html) and EBMonFHIR (https://confluence.hl7.org/display/CDS/EBMonFHIR) projects.  We will explore both websites (gps.health, HL7 Confluence) for capabilities and ease of management and would like to develop a website that will:

1. Provide a dashboard view with status of our many activities
2. Provide an introduction to our many activities
3. Provide access to the documentation behind our efforts
4. Provide easy methods to get involved

 

We will set a December 14 goal for putting this together as that is the scheduled introduction our next Connectathon Track.

 

 

The Systematic Meta-Review Project Group refined search strategies for the Steroids for COVID-19 Systematic Meta-Review Protocol. We achieved manageable search strategies (< 300 results) for 8 of 9 databases so far. This means we are getting close to formally completing the protocol, registering the protocol, and thus starting this project. Soon we will need to adapt Citation Management tools (with PICO Portal) to manage the article selection effort and Data Extraction Tools (with Computable Publishing LLC) to capture the data and convert to FHIR resources. These are the remaining steps to prepare for this project.

 

 

 

The Statistic Model Code System Development Steering Group mapped statistic model terms to the Step 5 NCIt Ontology Mapping.

 

 

 

To get involved or stay informed:

 

You can learn more about the COVID-19 Knowledge Accelerator (COKA) project at https://www.gps.health/covid19_knowledge_accelerator.html

 

You can find all the progress notes at a Google Drive folder for the project and each Work Group has a Progress Report document where you can find the details. 

 

You can join any of the groups that are now meeting in the following schedule:

 

Weekly Meeting Schedule

Day	Time (Eastern)	Team
Monday	7-8 am	Project Management
Monday	9-10 am	Systematic Meta-Review
Monday	4-5 pm	Statistic Model Code System Development
Tuesday	10-11 am	Evidence Evaluation and Reporting Tools Development (CANCELLED November 17 for AMIA session)
Tuesday	2-3 pm	Study Design Code System Development
Wednesday	8-9 am	Knowledge Ecosystem Liaison
Wednesday	9-10 am	Statistic Type Code System Development
Thursday	7-8 am	Project Management
Thursday	9-10 am	Content Citation and Classification Tools Development
Thursday	4-5 pm	Project Management
Friday	9-10 am	Risk Of Bias Code System Development
Friday	10-11 am	Communications (Awareness, Scholarly Publications)

 

To join any of these meetings:

________________________________________________________________________________

Join Microsoft Teams Meeting

+1 929-346-7156   United States, New York City (Toll)

Conference ID: 324 918 025#

Local numbers

Meeting support by ComputablePublishing.com

________________________________________________________________________________

 

 

Brian S. Alper, MD, MSPH, FAAFP, FAMIA

CEO, Computable Publishing LLC
http://computablepublishing.com Making Science Machine-Interpretable

Lead, COVID-19 KNOWLEDGE ACCELERATOR

 

Read about The Mission Change of a Lifetime

"It only takes a pebble to start an avalanche."

Schedule a meeting with me.