Weekly OHDSI Digest – December 2, 2024

WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING

Please join our Dec. 3 (11 am ET) community call for a session focused on recent publications from the OHDSI community. More than 750 peer-reviewed studies focusing on OMOP or OHDSI tools, methods or practices have been published over the last decade, and we are excited to welcome the leads or co-authors of four recent publications to discuss their work on the next community call:

• Transforming Primary Care Data Into the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership Common Data Model: Development and Usability Study • Mathilde Fruchart, Data Scientist

CHU de Lille

• Standardised and Reproducible Phenotyping Using Distributed Analytics and Tools in the Data Analysis and Real World Interrogation Network (DARWIN EU) • Albert Prats-Uribe, Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Public Health, Health Data Sciences, Oxford University

• Learning health system linchpins: information exchange and a common data model • Aaron Eisman, PGY-1 Internal Medicine Resident, Yale School of Medicine

• Advancing Interpretable Regression Analysis for Binary Data: A Novel Distributed Algorithm Approach • Jiayi (Jessie) Tong, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University

Everybody is invited. Calendar invites went out last week. If you did not receive one, please use this link to join the meeting. All recordings from these weekly calls are available within our Teams environment and will be posted on both our YouTube page and our OHDSI.org Community Calls page.

WEEKLY WORKING GROUP MEETINGS

Upcoming Workgroup Calls – OHDSI

OHDSI SHOUTOUTS

Congratulations to the team of Seok Woo Hong and Jeong-Hyun Kang on the publication of Antinuclear Positivity and Malignant Transformation Potential of Oral Potentially Malignant Disorder in Oral Diseases.

• Congratulations to the team of Jiayi Tong, Lu Li, Jenna Marie Reps, Vitaly Lorman, Naimin Jing, Mackenzie Edmondson, Xiwei Lou, Ravi Jhaveri, Kelly J. Kelleher, Nathan M. Pajor, Christopher B. Forrest, Jiang Bian, Haitao Chu, and Yong Chen on the publication of Advancing Interpretable Regression Analysis for Binary Data: A Novel Distributed Algorithm Approach in Statistics in Medicine.

OHDSI UPDATES

• The 2024 OHDSI Asia-Pacific (APAC) Symposium will be held this week in Singapore. Regional co-chairs Mengling ‘Mornin’ Feng and Ngial Kee Yuan will lead this event, which has a theme of “When OHDSI Meets with AI.” The final agenda is now available on the OHDSI homepage.

• All videos and slides from the main conference of the 2024 OHDSI Global Symposium are now available on the event homepage. You can also find the 136 posters and software demos from our collaborator showcase. Videos of all the tutorials have also been posted.

OHDSI Social Showcase

• Research from the 2024 Global Symposium Collaborator Showcase is also being shared daily on OHDSI’s LinkedInTwitter/X and Instagram feeds as part of the #OHDSISocialShowcase. Below are posters (with study leads) that are featured this week:

Monday — OMOP GIS Vocabulary Package for Observational Studies in Health Care and Public Health (Maksym Trofymenko)

Tuesday — Medical Device Standard Terminology Overview, Comparison and Analysis (Asiyah Lin**)**

Wednesday — An Explorative Study about the Latent Space of Clinical Foundation Models Based on a Common Data Model Database (Min-Gyu Kim)

Thursday — Harmonization of routine care data from hospitals in the Digital Oncology Network for Europe (DigiONE) into Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP) databases reveals changes in the number of new primary cancers diagnosed and 12-month survival during COVID-19 lockdowns (Stelios Theophanous, Hayley Fenton)

Friday — Executing a Reusable Framework for Study-Specific Data Quality Analysis (Kaleigh Wieand)

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