Participants:

• Guest speaker: Dr. James Crawford, Chair Emeritus for Pathology and Laboratories at Northwell to discuss the use of the CRWDi data resource (real-world data on COVID-19)

Agenda and Notes:

Recording and other zoom files:

• Video recording: (We will upload the video recording as soon as we can. We apologize for the inconvenience. The audio recording has been uploaded below for you to listen to while we work on uploading the video recording. (Please see the slide deck attached above))

• Audio recording:

• Chat:

  • 12:21:44 From Ana.Szarfman@fda.hhs.gov : @James Crawford, Northwell: Do you also have mortality data for these patients
    12:25:25 From Ana.Szarfman@fda.hhs.gov : @James Crawford, Northwell Thanks for all your work
    12:28:49 From Andrea Pitkus : The recording and slides will be posted on a a SHIELD ALL Topic webpage.
    12:29:58 From Walter.Sujansky : Can you say more about the degree of standardization of the lab result data in the data repository?
    12:31:49 From Walter.Sujansky : Are there only COVID test results in the repository, or other lab results for the covered patients?
    12:34:31 From Murat Sincan : what is the terminology/value set management infrastructure? Flat files, database or a dedicated system like Symedical or Health Language?
    12:37:00 From Walter.Sujansky : Did you find there was significant variance in the reporting of lab results by different Quest laboratories or different LabCorp laboratories, or are Quest and LabCorp well standardized across their own corporate lab facilities?
    12:47:12 From Yonah Ziemba : Reacted to "Did you find there w..." with 👍
    12:50:11 From Jenna Rychert (ARUP) : Is it possible to determine if the diabetes was new onset after COVID infection?
    12:50:22 From Andrea Pitkus : Reacted to "Is it possible to de..." with 👍
    12:52:20 From Murat Sincan : I wonder if anyone has tried using LLMs (ChatGPT?) to generate properly formed Databricks queries from researcher provided natural language questions? That would be interesting to see.
    12:53:37 From Yonah Ziemba : ​https://www.databricks.com/blog/introducing-databricks-assistant
    12:53:38 From Ingeborg : Are all the medications verified by claims data or did you bring meds from the EHR in that are not validated by claims data?
    12:53:48 From Murat Sincan : Reacted to "https://www.databric..." with 👍
    12:55:19 From Murat Sincan : Pharmacy Benefit Managers? PBMs?
    12:55:34 From Yonah Ziemba : Replying to "Pharmacy Benefit Man..."

    Yes! Pharmacy Benefit Managers? PBMs?
    12:56:20 From Yonah Ziemba : Replying to "Pharmacy Benefit Man..."

    ​https://seer.cancer.gov/data-software/crwdi/#:~:text=Pharmacy%20Benefit%20Managers%20%5BPBMs%5D).
    12:56:40 From Yonah Ziemba : Replying to "Pharmacy Benefit Man..."

    Here are the details about the data sources for pharmacy: ​https://seer.cancer.gov/data-software/crwdi/#:~:text=Pharmacy%20Benefit%20Managers%20%5BPBMs%5D).
    12:58:46 From Yonah Ziemba : yziemba@northwell.edu is my email
    12:58:53 From Murat Sincan : Reacted to "yziemba@northwell.ed..." with 👍
    12:59:09 From Murat Sincan : Thank you!
    12:59:12 From Ingeborg : Thank you! This seems like a valuable resource!