For JHU faculty members interested in clinical research and electronic health record (EHR) data science, we lead the efforts to transform our JHM multi-modal data (Epic EHR, medical imaging, physiological waveform, and genomics) into the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP) common data model and provide self-service tools for researchers to conduct cohort discovery and evidence generation.
We are leaders in real-world data initiatives in the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) data network covering over 500 data partners and 960 million unique patient medical records. We have partnered with faculty in the past 5 years achieving K, R, and U grants totaling over $50M from the FDA, CDC, ARPA-H, and NIH. We currently receive $8M/year in research funding. We have created a grants accelerator program to help clinical researchers get an IRB, study their patients, lead an inter-institutional research study, and be competitive in grant applications.
Get involved:
- Access JHM EHR data without an IRB for cohort discovery on the Secure Analytic Framework Environment (SAFE) desktop. The JHM OMOP instance has data on 3.1 million patients seen since 2016.
- Join JH OHDSI Office Hours sessions to better formulate your research question.
- Sign up for a class on OMOP (ME 250.782 Observational Health Research Methods on Medical Records and ME 250.961 Large Scale Observational Research Preparation) in SEAM where we partner you with our master’s, doctoral, and post-doctoral students using your tuition remission. Courses are held online in the evening.
- Join weekly JH Community calls with our OMOP IRB and grant accelerators. We have constructed multiple pathways with the IRB and the CCDA. To date, we are averaging 2 weeks to IRB approval and 1 week to data projection for OMOP-related research.
- For DOM faculty, we conduct special research projects on our precision medicine platform under the direction of our Vice Chair for Research, Dr. Sunil Solomon.