WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING
The Winter 2025 vocabulary refresh was released last week and includes several domain changes, newly added concepts, concept changes and more. Please join our March 4 community call (11 am ET) for a full update on this recent refresh, led by
• Anna Ostropolets, Associate Director, Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia University
• Oleg Zhuk, Manager, Data Analytics Consulting, EPAM Systems
• Maria Khitrun, Senior Scientific Curation Specialist, EPAM Systems
This session will also include a Phenotype Phebruary review from three members of our leadership team: Anna Ostropolets, Gowtham Rao, and Azza Shoaibi.
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 Inessa Cohen, Zihan Diao, Pawan Goyal, Aarti Gupta, Kathryn Hawk, Bill Malcom, Caitlin Malicki, Dhruv Sharma, Brian Sweeney, Scott Weiner, Arjun Venkatesh, and Andrew Taylor on the recent publication of Mapping Emergency Medicine Data to the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership Common Data Model: A Gap Analysis of the American College of Emergency Physicians Clinical Emergency Data Registry in the Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open.
• Congratulations to the team of Seonji Kim, Subin Kim, Chungsoo Kim, Junhyuk Chang, Rae Woong Park, Kyung Won Kim, and Seng Chan You on the publication of Utility of Treatment Pattern Analysis Using a Common Data Model: A Scoping Review in Healthcare Informatics Research.
OHDSI UPDATES
• The latest edition of The Journey Newsletter is now available, and it includes reviews of Phenotype Phebruary and workgroup updates, recent community updates, publications and presentations from February, and plenty more.
• Christian Reich and Sarah Seager are leading an effort to publish a second edition of the Book of OHDSI, which will include updates to previous text and new paragraphs/chapters. This work is taking place within the Education workgroup; if you would like to join this effort, please sign up here.
• Leaders from over 30+ workgroups presented opportunities for all community members to find a home for their talents and passions. Newcomers and veterans can both make meaningful contributions to our community by collaborating in workgroups. Throughout February, workgroup representatives shared the mission, recent achievements and 2025 goals. You can find those presentations and see if there is a home for you on our workgroups homepage.
• Asieh Golozar announced that the iCAN mNSCLC Studyathon 2025 will be held March 25-28 I Helsinki, Finlad, and the focus is “Exploring the Real-World Treatment Landscape of mNSCLC.” The event will focus on characterizing real-world treatment patterns of metastatic NSCLC, with a focus on the adoption and impact of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) across different regions. Reach out to Asieh Golozar (golozar@ohdsi.org) for more information or if you wish to contribute.
• Hongfang Liu will lead a talk on ‘A Translational Science Framework in Advancing Healthcare AI’ on March 27 at 11 am ET as part of The Center for Advanced Healthcare Research Informatics (CAHRI) at Tufts Medicine seminar series. Please contact Marty Alvarez at malvarez2@tuftsmedicalcenter.org for calendar invite or questions.
Save The Dates
• The OHDSI Global Symposium will be held Oct. 7-9 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Agenda and registration information will be shared when available.
• Registration is open for the Europe Symposium, which will be held July 5-7 in the “Old Prison” building of Hasselt University in Hasselt, Belgium. More information is available later in this newsletter.
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 — Inclusion of intraocular pressure data into the University of California Health Data Warehouse (William Halfpenny and Shahin Hallaj)
Tuesday — Hierarchical Algorithms for Querying Physiologically Distinct Groups in Adult Congenital Heart Disease Using OMOP CDM (Seohu Lee)
Wednesday — Vasculitis without phlebitis phenotype development using real-world data: development and evaluation study (Jill Hardin)
Thursday — Using OHDSI Standards and Tools to Train the Next Generation of Researchers (Jonah Bradenday)
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