This post is about the paper Characterizing treatment pathways at scale using the OHDSI network from the hefty author list: George Hripcsak, Patrick B. Ryan, Jon D. Duke, Nigam H. Shah, Rae Woong Park, Vojtech Huser, Marc A. Suchard, Martijn J. Schuemie, Frank J. DeFalco, Adler Perotte, Juan M. Banda …

I'm (arguably) a data scientist, so I need data to do science. A problem with data is that it's all over the place, a natural and unsurprising consequence of its many origins. Producing databases seems to be a hobby for bioinformaticians, which also includes databases of databases (Bolser et al …