WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING
One proposed focus for the OHDSI community is around guideline-driven evidence generation, and collaborators have started to share potential opportunities in this forum post. We will hear more about some of these guideline-focused opportunities during our Jan. 21 (11 am ET) community call, and we will also learn about the BRIDGE Training Program from Marc Twagirumukiza.
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 Mitchell Conover, Yasser Albogami, Jill Hardin, Christian Reich, Anna Ostropolets, Patrick Ryan, and the OHDSI Research Network on the recent publication of Glucagon-Like Peptide 1 Receptor Agonists and Chronic Lower Respiratory Disease Among Type 2 Diabetes Patients: Replication and Reliability Assessment Across a Research Network in Pharmacoepidemiology & Drug Safety.
• Congratulations to the team of Karamarie Fecho, Juan J. Garcia, Hong Yi, Griffin Roupe and Ashok Krishnamurthy on the recent publication of FHIR PIT: a geospatial and spatiotemporal data integration pipeline to support subject-level clinical research in NPJ Digital Medicine.
• Congratulations to the team of Gowtham Rao, Azza Shoaibi, Rupa Makadia, Jill Hardin, Joel Swerdel, James Weaver, Erica Voss, Mitchell Conover, Stephen Fortin, Anthony Sena, Chris Knoll, Nigel Hughes, James Gilbert, Clair Blacketer, Alan Andryc, Frank DeFalco, Anthony Molinaro, Jenna Reps, Martijn Schuemie, and Patrick Ryan on the recent publication of CohortDiagnostics: Phenotype evaluation across a network of observational data sources using population-level characterization in PLOS One.
OHDSI UPDATES
Each year, workgroup representatives join a February community call to present the mission, objectives and key results for their respective groups. These 2-4 minute presentations are recorded and posted on the Workgroups homepage on OHDSI.org. Please choose a date to sign up for a February date; once a date has at least 10 workgroups, it will be closed.
• The CDM Survey subgroup invites colleagues who have or are going to design, develop, and/or implement research surveys and use them with the OMOP CDM to share information about those efforts by completing this survey. Your completion of this 10-15 minute survey will provide information to the CDM workgroup about OMOP utilization among survey research teams. The CDM Survey subgroup is a collaborative effort, led by a team at the National Cancer Institute, to develop standardized approaches and best practices for helping research teams better integrate survey data elements into the OMOP common data model. The survey will remain open through mid-January.
Save The Dates
• The OHDSI Europe Symposium will be hosted by the OHDSI Belgium Node on 5-7 July 2025 in the “Old Prison” building of Hasselt University in Hasselt, Belgium. Agenda and registration information will be shared when available.
• The first OHDSI Latin-America (LATAM) Symposium will be held July 31-August 1 in Salvador, Brazil. More information will be shared when available.
Dates for the 2025 Global Symposium will be announced within the next few weeks!
OHDSI Social Showcase
• Research from the 2024 Global Symposium Collaborator Showcase is also being shared daily on OHDSI’s LinkedIn, Twitter/X and Instagram feeds as part of the #OHDSISocialShowcase. Below are posters (with study leads) that are featured this week:
Monday — Leveraging UDI for Advanced Medical Device Tracking in OMOP-CDM (Seojeong Shin)
Tuesday — OMOP on a Data Lake: Addressing the Critical Need for Scalable Solutions in Healthcare Data Management with OHDSI Tools and AWS Services (Lance Eighme)
Wednesday — Generalizable Approaches for Medical Term Normalization (Jacob Berkowitz)
Thursday — Exploring the interplay between metabolic syndrome and brain volume in depression: Basis for Phenotype-Based Classification (Sujin Gan)
Friday — Quantifying the opioid use disorder crisis: PULSNAR finds nearly 3/4 undiagnosed (Praveen Kumar)
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