Break out of the cohort building triangle with caching! Behold – a triangle! (Pythagoras would approve): As the requirements of building a cohort grow so does the complexity. Complexity can come from querying more datasets, more columns or just larger volumes of data. Complex queries take longer to run. You
So you want to build a cohort? So you’ve decided to do a research study using Electronic Health Records and/or imaging and you’ve written a document outlining the requirements. How do we turn this list of inclusion / exclusion criteria into runnable code? With RDMP‘s Cohort Compiler of course! The
Trying to make sure that people named Brian aren’t discriminated against is an odd problem to have, but one our team faces none the less! The Scottish Medical Imaging (SMI) platform is built to remove all personal identifiers from medical data released for health care and AI research. If a researcher needs brain scans it can get tricky when Brain is misspelt Brian, or vice versa.
The team then finds themselves needing to work out how to differentiate between these two, without simply excluding scans from everybody named Brian!
