COVID-19 Knowledge Accelerator (COKA) Daily Progress December 1, 2020
Brian Alper
10 people (BA, BK, BS, GA, IK, JD, JJ, KS, MT, TN-R) 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 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 Evidence Evaluation and Reporting Tools Development Work Group discussed the desire to integrate the Clinical Trial Results Reporter into the SRDR+ platform. This resulted in discussions about ‘authorization interoperability support’ and ‘technical interoperability support’ needs. For authorization, the tools are freely available for COVID-19 related use but the desire to use it for broader domains led us to review the Apollo Accelerator program which is set up to support low-cost methods (especially low for nonprofits) to support the base software development. For technical interoperability, we discussed a high-priority feature is to support ‘single sign on’ so a user who has logged into SRDR systems or logged into Duodecim systems (examples based on the participants in the work group meeting) do not need to log in again to use the Clinical Trial Results Reporter. BOTTOM-LINE: Sharing login user experience across systems (rather than repeating the effort) is a critical early step in interoperability support, regardless of the schema and terminology. This is not the primary focus of COKA or EBMonFHIR but clearly a fundamental early step to support our primary focus.
The Study Design Code System Development Steering Group completed the Step 5 SCO Ontology Mapping for the Study Design Code System. We have now completed Step 5 Ontology mapping across 8 ontologies that use BioPortal (STATO, NCIt, OBCS, EDDA, OCRe, OBI, CTO, SCO). We did some early explorations of UMLS (not an ontology itself but a mapping to other ontologies) to see if it can be substituted for multiple ontologies left in our “to be mapped” set. By next week we will determine if we continue mapping with UMLS next or start through the other ontologies directly.
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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