How can OMOP help Sweden unlock the potential of its health data?

The OHDSI Sweden Symposium 2025 will bring together leaders, researchers, and innovators across healthcare, life science, policy and patient organizations to explore how the international data model OMOP and assets from the open-science community OHDSI can unlock the value of Sweden’s health data.

Participants will see examples how OMOP and OHDSI connect to national and European strategies, and how it enables data-driven and patient-centered healthcare, research, and innovation.

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A selection of speakers

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Sabine Koch

Sabine Koch is a Strategic Professor of Health Informatics at Karolinska Institutet, where she also serves as the Head of the Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics (LIME) and the Director of the Health Informatics Centre (HIC). 

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Patrick Ryan

Patrick Ryan PhD is Vice President, Observational Health Data Analytics at Janssen Research and Development, where he is leading efforts to develop and apply analysis methods to better understand the real-world effects of medical products. 

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Kimmo Porkka

Kimmo Porkka MD PhD is a leading Finnish physician-scientist specializing in hematology and personalized cancer medicine, particularly acute leukemias. He holds the professorship in Individualized Cancer Medicine at the University of Helsinki and is Chief Physician at HUS Comprehensive Cancer Center.

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Niklas Norén

Niklas Norén is the Chief Scientific officer at Uppsala Monitoring Center. He leads its research function since 2009. Niklas has held leadership roles in several international collaborative projects, and his research on duplicate detection and subgroup discovery has been internationally awarded. 

Location

Welcome!

Life City, Solnavägen 3H, Solna and online (link will be provided after registration)

November 5, 2025, 09:00-17:15, after-event mingle 17:15-18:00 

Limited spots available at GoCo Health Innovation City in Gothenburg. Please contact Lars Lindsköld via email.

Agenda at a glance

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5 November 2025

09:15 The OMOP Common Data Model & The OHDSI Community

The Journey of OHDSI: Where have we been and where can we go together? 

What is OMOP and OHDSI? User groups, use-cases, tools and methods? 

10:30 An international perspective of OMOP: Experiences and assets up for grabs for Sweden 

What can Sweden leverage and learn from other nations working with OMOP? 

13:00 How does OMOP and OHDSI fit into the Swedish ecosystem of life science and healthcare? 

Case studies and Panel discussions

16:15 OMOP in the international health informatics standardisation landscape

17:15 After event networking and conversations 

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OMOP 4 SWEDEN! consortium