Operational Data Model Conversion to ResearchKit.

The increasing use of electronic health information systems brings up an unresolved issue: the lack of interoperability between these systems. The Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium's Operational Data Model (ODM) is an xml based standard for the exchange of clinical data and metadata. The University of Münster has been using ODM to store medical forms in a web based metadata registry called Portal of Medical Data Models, which includes a complete set of tools to transform ODM forms into other formats. One kind of medical form is the Patient Reported Outcome, a trending type due to its easy integration with mobile data capture systems. ResearchKit is a development framework that allows the easy creation of these for iOS devices; unfortunately its current interoperability is limited. This research proposes a mapping between ODM and ResearchKit and presents the successful implementation of a converter for ODM into JSON based ResearchKit readable files.