Africa Chapter: The Africa Chapter session will discuss how the OMOP CDM and OHDSI tools can strengthen surveillance and epidemiology of infectious diseases such as Monkey Pox (Mpox) and Covid-19.  Examples of mapping the WHO Mpox Case Report Form to standard concepts in the OMOP CDM will be presented. To illustrate the ability to generate evidence at a very large scale in an OHDSI federated network study, a Covid-19 global network study will be presented.  Staff from the African Population Health and Research Center Nairobi Kenya will describe their research on Covid-19 data from multiple African countries. Representatives from the US CDC, Africa CDC and USAID will be attending and we will discuss a plan to solidify our collaboration with these institutions. The session will by hybrid, in person 8am-10am. Location: Garden State A, Main Level or via Teams at this link. 

Asia-Pacific Chapter: Come join us to help the OHDSI APAC community to define our objectives in 2025 and understand how we can achieve these goals, 8am-10am. Location: Garden State B, Main Level

Evidence Network Data Partners: This session is for anyone in the OHDSI Community who has data and wants to participate in network studies. We will touch on ways to enrich your OMOP CDM instance, common challenges faced by data partners, and how to join the OHDSI Evidence Network, 11am-1pm. Location: Garden State B, Main Level

Geographic Information System (GIS): Please join the GIS Workgroup at the 2024 OHDSI Global Symposium (4-hour activity). The description/learning objectives proposed by the GIS workgroup leads: Andrew Williams, Kyle Zollo-Venecek, and Robert Miller are as follows: What kinds of use cases does the OHDSI GIS infrastructure support (current and planned)? How do you go from identifying a public data source on place related to working with it in the OHDSI ecosystem? How do you deploy and maintain the needed software? 8am-1pm. Location: Conference Room A, 2nd Floor

HADES Hackathon: HADES (Health-Analytics Data-to-Evidence Suite) is the set of R packages used in most OHDSI studies. At the hackathon, developers will work in small teams on the HADES codebase to fix problems and add improvements. Anyone interested in helping out with HADES, whether you’re a beginner or an experienced developer, is encouraged to join us, 8am-4pm. Location: Regency Ballroom B, Main Level.

Latin America Chapter: We will gather the LATAM community and encourage the participants to go to the symposium. We will use the space to connect and share experiences, 8am-1pm. Location: Regency Ballroom C, Main Level.

Medical Devices: The Medical Device WG workshop will focus on OMOP or OMOP extension for medical device RWE research, 11am-1pm. Location: Garden State C, Main Level.

Natural Language Processing (NLP): The primary goal of the NLP working group is to promote the use of textual information from Electronic Health Records (EHRs) for observational studies under the OHDSI umbrella. To facilitate this objective, the group are developing methods and software that can be implemented to utilize clinical text for studies by the OHDSI community, 11am-1pm. Location: Garden State A, Main Level.

OMOP + FHIR- Health Equity: The OMOP + FHIR and Health Equity Working Groups have pursued cross-working group collaborations focused on FHIR standards impacting SDoH, where the interest of both groups intersects. Serendipitously, the Women of OHDSI (WoO) Working Group is being reinvigorated. The Thursday Working Group session will feature the official “re-launching” of the Women of OHDSI (WOO) working group and follow with activities supporting the aims of all three groups: seeking conventions for the FHIR Gender Harmony Implementation Guide (IG) on OMOP by leveraging the harmonized constructs to build phenotypes in OMOP around two clinical quality use cases focused on women’s health issues.

The Women of OHDSI WG has a 3-pillar approach to support women’s and gender health research, improve the CDM to improve gender health centricity, and provide a platform to support and empower women professionals working to generate real-world evidence. The WoO kick-off will include review of its framework and opportunity to suggest ideas, put forward potential speakers and events to come.

The HL7 Gender Harmony model provides a useful framework for gender identity, administrative sex, and pronoun data element definitions and attributes.  The GH model provides a context independent classification for recorded sex and gender information.  The FHIR to OMOP working group has aligned the GH model with USCDI data classes for the individual sub elements of the GH model which have been proposed as updates to the OMOP CDM. 

The workshop session will first provide an overview of the GH cross paradigm model and its alignment with the OMOP tables and conventions in THEMIS.  The workshop will then begin the work to utilize these data elements to construct phenotypes for the Sex Parameters for Clinical Use (SPCU) component of the GH model based on two digital quality measurement (dQM) use cases for breast and cervical cancer. 

Workshop attendees will become familiar with data definitions for recorded sex and gender concepts and how they are essential to research projects focused on healthcare disparities and equity. Attendees will also have a unique opportunity to contribute to the development of standard SPCU phenotypes that will enhance reliability of clinical quality measurement and the validity of disparities research, 8am-1pm. Location: Conference Room B/C, 2nd Floor.

Oncology: The Oncology Workgroup focuses on providing a platform for standardization of cancer data enabling the conduct of observational cancer studies and identifying patient cohorts in a distributed research network. In this session, we will work together to make progress on one of the main challenges in oncology: identification of cancer and disease episodes and population of the Episode tables, 8am-1pm. Location: Conference Room I, 2nd Floor.

Patient-level Prediction (PLP): Improve software accessibility and simplicity:
– Work together to write documentation on going from “I can program R” to “I have put together a network study package”.
– 1+ new members run a PLP network study.
– Work together to write documentation and example converting an externally developed, non-OMOP model into PLP/OMOP format.
– 1+ member converts at existing model into the PLP/OMOP format, 8am-1pm. Location: Regency Ballroom A, Main Level.

Perinatal and Reproductive Health: The Perinatal and Reproductive Health Group (PRHeG) is an interdisciplinary workgroup that aims to develop tools and standards for perinatal and reproductive health research, to foster collaborative studies within the OHDSI network and advance research in the field. The co-leaders of PRHeG will facilitate this workgroup, and we will plan specific activities during our monthly work group meetings. People with all levels of familiarity with OHDSI and with perinatal and reproductive health are encouraged to attend, 8am-10am. Location: Garden State C, Main Level.

Phenotype Evaluation: Phenotype development and evaluation will hold half a day working session where we will focus on the new methods and approaches aimed to improve phenotype development and/or evaluation, 8am-1pm. Location: Salon AB, 2nd Floor.