Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-19-2023
Original Citation
Callahan T,
Stefanski A,
Wyrwa J,
Zeng C,
Ostropolets A,
Banda J,
Baumgartner W,
Boyce R,
Casiraghi E,
Coleman B,
Collins J,
Deakyne Davies S,
Feinstein J,
Lin A,
Martin B,
Matentzoglu N,
Meeker D,
Reese J,
Sinclair J,
Taneja S,
Trinkley K,
Vasilevsky N,
Williams A,
Zhang X,
Denny J,
Ryan P,
Hripcsak G,
Bennett T,
Haendel M,
Robinson P,
Hunter L,
Kahn M.
Ontologizing health systems data at scale: making translational discovery a reality. NPJ Digit Med. 2023;6(1):89.
Keywords
JGM
JAX Source
NPJ Digit Med. 2023;6(1):89.
ISSN
2398-6352
PMID
37208468
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-023-00830-x
Grant
This work was primarily supported by funding from the National Library of Medicine (NLM T15LM009451 and T15LM007079) to T.J.C. and in part by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS U24TR002306) to M.A.H. and P.N.R., the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI 5RM1HG010860) to M.A.H., P.N.R., N.A.V., and N.A.M., the NLM (R01LM013400) to L.E.H. and (R01LM006910) G.H., the Medical Research Council (MR/P02002X/1) to J.H.C., the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI 1K23HL161352) to K.E.T., the NHGRI (5U24HG011449-02) to P.N.R., and the Intramural Research Program of the NHGRI (ZIA HG200417) to J.C.D. and C.Z.
Abstract
Common data models solve many challenges of standardizing electronic health record (EHR) data but are unable to semantically integrate all of the resources needed for deep phenotyping. Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology (OBO) Foundry ontologies provide computable representations of biological knowledge and enable the integration of heterogeneous data. However, mapping EHR data to OBO ontologies requires significant manual curation and domain expertise. We introduce OMOP2OBO, an algorithm for mapping Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP) vocabularies to OBO ontologies. Using OMOP2OBO, we produced mappings for 92,367 conditions, 8611 drug ingredients, and 10,673 measurement results, which covered 68-99% of concepts used in clinical practice when examined across 24 hospitals. When used to phenotype rare disease patients, the mappings helped systematically identify undiagnosed patients who might benefit from genetic testing. By aligning OMOP vocabularies to OBO ontologies our algorithm presents new opportunities to advance EHR-based deep phenotyping.
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