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
Photo: privatSabine 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 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 MD PhD is a leading Finnish physician-scientist specializing in hematology and personalized cancer medicine, particularly acute leukemias. He holds the professorship in Personalized Cancer Medicine at iCAN Digital Precision Cancer Medicine Flagship, University of Helsinki.
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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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08:15 Arrival and registration
09:00 Introduction
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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A big thank you to our sponsors, without whom this event would not have been possible.
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Photo: Lars LindsködDagar om lagar - An event organised by SFMI with support from the Swedish Research Council and SciLifeLab
If you want to learn more about OMOP, we will also cover it during the event DAGAR OM LAGAR 2025.
6 November – Local activities throughout the country
7 November – Joint digital day with an international outlook and national insight