COVID-19 Knowledge Accelerator (COKA) Daily Progress December 2, 2020
Brian Alper
10 people (AS, BA, BK, HL, IO, JD, JO, KR, KS, SB) participated today in up to 2 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 we 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 Knowledge Ecosystem Liaison Work Group continued discussions with the AHRQ evidence-based Care Transformation Support (ACTS), meeting today with multiple ACTS leaders and supporters covering developments related to creating Knowledge Ecosystem Recommendations, to discussing systematic methods to develop functional requirements and technical requirements for multiple tools to support this knowledge ecosystem, and to discussing coordination of EBMonFHIR/COVID-19 Knowledge Accelerator efforts with PCORI-supported projects to use FHIR standards to support patient-centered outcomes research related to the long-term sequelae of COVID-19.
The Statistic Type Code System Development Steering Group dove deeply into the infrastructure of the FHIR Statistic Resource and how StatisticType and StatisticModel Code Systems will support it, primarily with a focus on how to best categorize or classify the code system terms for ease of implementation. As we discussed these goals, along with the 13-step Code System Development Protocol (including publishing the codes systems at terminology.hl7.org at step 11) and with current data management efforts through Step 5 (we have mapped 9 ontologies so far, 18 to go), we reviewed the FHIR CodeSystem Resource and how we could use this structure now for managing code system development. We anticipate taking a “break” from Step 5 Ontology Mapping for a period while we create FHIR-based infrastructure to manage the data and move our existing datasets (4 code systems in Step 3 spreadsheets and 9 Step 5 ontology mapping spreadsheets) to this infrastructure. When done the code system development effort will be more efficient, more sustainable, and more scalable. (Something to do with the value of using interoperability standards.)
We also had a very well attended (about 190 participants), well received webinar today in the Guidelines International Network/North America webinar series titled “Bringing Evidence and Guidelines into the Digital Age”. Thank you to Ian Saldanha (Brown University, presenting SRDR-Plus), Maria Michaels (CDC), and Ed Lomotan (AHRQ) for completing a fabulous panel which came off well despite technical challenges the first time using a new webinar platform.
TOMORROW the Content Citation and Classification Tools Development Work Group is meeting 30 minutes later (9:30-10:30 am Eastern) to accommodate a webinar 8:30-9:30 am.
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
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Time (Eastern) |
Team |
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Monday |
7-8 am |
Project Management |
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Monday |
9-10 am |
Systematic Meta-Review |
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Monday |
4-5 pm |
Statistic Model Code System Development |
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Tuesday |
10-11 am |
Evidence Evaluation and Reporting Tools Development |
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Tuesday |
2-3 pm |
Study Design Code System Development |
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Wednesday |
8-9 am |
Knowledge Ecosystem Liaison |
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Wednesday |
9-10 am |
Statistic Type Code System Development |
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Thursday |
9-10 am |
Content Citation and Classification Tools Development |
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Thursday |
4-5 pm |
Project Management |
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Friday |
9-10 am |
Risk Of Bias Code System Development |
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Friday |
10-11 am |
Communications (Awareness, Scholarly Publications) |
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To join any of these meetings:
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