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OHDSI APAC - Our Asia-Pacific Community
OHDSI is a global, multi-stakeholder, interdisciplinary and open-science network that collaborates to bring out the value of health data through large-scale analytics. Our Asia-Pacific (APAC) community comprises six regional chapters (Australia, China, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan) and has led important OHDSI initiatives around the world.
The 2021 OHDSI Symposium was held Nov. 18, 2021, and it featured a set of morning presentations, which are available to the right. These presentations focused on the State of the Global and APAC Community, the EHDEN Consortium and the FHIR/OHDSI collaboration.
The afternoon featured several collaborative activities, including study sessions, workgroup meetings and a collaborator showcase.
2021 APAC Symposium Presentations
The first OHDSI APAC Symposium was held virtually Dec. 5-6, 2020, and it provided an opportunity for our Asia-Pacific collaborators (along with others around the world) to share research, provide community updates, collaborate in regional breakouts or network discussions, and have some OHDSI fun.
The APAC community has its own group in the OHDSI MS Teams environment to promote greater collaboration on our collaborative efforts. It will also be the home of our bi-weekly APAC Community Calls, where we will provide updates, share research presentations, collaborate on topics of shared interest, and plenty more. How can you get involved? First, request access to our MS Teams Environment, then request access to our OHDSI APAC workgroup. You can also join the meetings by using this direct link.
Our calls are scheduled on a bi-weekly basis, held every other Thursday/Wednesday depending on where you live. All calls are recorded, so if you miss one or want to share with a collaborator, check out the call recordings below.
2021 APAC ETL Training Tutorial: The APAC community led a two-day ETL training tutorial August 12-13, 2021. It included seven sessions (Introduction to ETL & Source Data Analysis, Vocabulary Mapping Part I, Vocabulary Mapping Part II, ETL Specification Writing, ETL Specification Review, Common Issues in ETL Conversion and OMOP ETL Development, and Data Quality Checks). You can watch all of the recordings now on the tutorial homepage.
Jan. 12 APAC Community Call
Topics of Discussion:
- Welcome Back & 2021 Summaries
- 2022 APAC & Chapter Goals
- 2022 OHDSI Global: Where Should We Go And How Should We Get There?
Next Community Call: Jan. 27 (CDM Workshop)
Video Presentation
OHDSI APAC Symposium
Morning Presentations
Activity update for Data Standardization in Japan (Professor Yoshihiro Aoyagi)
Video
OHDSI APAC Symposium Preview & LEGEND Initiative
Video
The Oct. 7 APAC Community Call will feature a trio of tutorials to assist in OHDSI Network Research.
• PHOEBE (Anna Ostropolets)
• Cohort Diagnostics (Gowtham Rao)
• ATC Hierarchy (Christian Reich)
Video
The Sept. 23 APAC Community Call focused on the new OHDSI Center at the Roux Institute. Kristin Kostka, Director of the OHDSI Center, provided a presentation and then answered questions.
There were two presentations during the OHDSI2021 Global Symposium that can provide more context on the OHDSI Center. David Madigan, Provost of Northeastern University, introduced the OHDSI Reproducibility Service during the Day 4 Plenary Session, while Kostka gave an oral presentation on the OHDSI Center as part of the Collaborator Showcase lightning talks.
Video Presentation
The Sept. 9 APAC Community Call featured the following OHDSI workgroup updates: Oncology, Psychiatry, UK Biobank/Registry, EHR
Video Presentation
The August 26 APAC Community Call featured two presentations on OHDSI Network Studies.
1) Best practices/How to run network study packages with no internet connection (presentation by Sathappan Selva Muthu Kumaran, National University of Singapore)
2) Sharing our experience and preliminary results from on-going international OHDSI study (presentation by Prof. Seng Chan You – Korea University)
Video Presentation
The August 10 Community Call featured a preview of the 2021 OHDSI Global Symposium, which will be held virtually Sept. 12-15. The full presentation is below, but registrations opened for the Sunday tutorial, Monday workshop, and the main symposium on Tuesday and Wednesday. Links and agenda are below:
Sunday, September 12: Building Conceptsets Tutorial
Please check out our Conceptsets Tutorial homepage and note the limitations on registration so be sure to sign up soon!
Monday, September 13: OHDSI Reproducibility Challenge Workshop
Please check out our OHDSI Reproducibility Challenge Workshop homepage and note the limitations on registration for workshop collaborators; there is no registration limit for workshop observers.
Tuesday, September 14:
8 am – 9 am ET: State of the Community
9 am – 12 pm ET: Plenary session “OHDSI Impact on Covid-19 pandemic”
1 pm – 5 pm ET: Collaborator Showcase
5 pm ET: Networkin
Wednesday, September 15:
3 am – 7 am ET: Collaborator Showcase
8 am – 12 pm ET: Plenary “Generating Reliable Evidence”
1 pm ET: Networking
Helpful links:
• Main Symposium Registration
• Titan Award Nominations
• Who am I? Name that Collaborator! (google.com)
Video Presentation
The July 29 APAC community call featured a presentation on our EUMAEUS (Evaluating Use of Methods for Adverse Event Under Surveillance) study. Topics and presenters for this presentation are below
- Literature Review (Lana Lai, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Manchester)
- Overview of the EUMAEUS Experiment Design (Marc Suchard, Professor, Department of Biomathematics, UCLA)
- Bias, Precision and Timeliness of Historical Rate Comparison Methods (Xintong Li, DPhil Candidate, University of Oxford)
- Combining Methods in a Safety Surveillance System (Faaizah Arshad, Undergraduate, UCLA)
- Estimating for Two-Dose Vaccines (Ty Stanford, Data Analyst/Bioinformatician, University of South Australia)
- Comparison of Performance Across Methods (Martijn Schuemie, Research Fellow, Epidemiology Analytics, Janssen Research and Development)
Video Presentation
Topics
• Discussion of the Aug. 12-13 ETL Tutorial
• Singapore Regional Update
• Seng Chan You presented on “An Introduction to the OMOP Oncology Module”
Video Presentation
Topic: Regional Updates / Mid-Year Review
Speakers: Seng Chan You, Hua Xu, Tatsuo Hiramatsu, Jason C. Hsu, Roger Ward
Presentation
Topic: OMOP Project – Applying the OMOP CDM to Hepatobiliary Clinical Research Database at Zhongshan
Speaker: Lei Liu
Presentation
Theme – 10-Minute Tutorials
PRESENTATIONS
Introduction (Mui Van Zandt)
White Rabbit (Xialin Wang)
USAGI (Seng Chan You)
Data Quality Dashboard (Selva Muthu Kumaran Sathappan) due to technical issues, this ended prior to the finish
Theme – Collaborator Showcase Presentation
Meeting contents include:
• OHDSI Updates
• Dr. Anton van der Vegt – Australian real-world research infrastructure pilot (Slides)
• Mui Van Zandt – OHDSI CDM 5.4 Changes
Video Presentations
Dr. Anton van der Vegt
Mui Van Zandt
Regional Updates
(full video presentation below summary)
Korea
• Nationwide Korean administrative claim data (HIRA) has been mapped to OMOP-CDM ranging 2010 to 2019 for entire Korean population
• More Korean hospitals including three hospitals in Yonsei University Health System (Severance; Gangnam Severance; Yongin Severance hospital) joined OHDSI with available OMOP-CDM v5.3.1 databases
China
• Organization change with 3 directions – Training and engagement, Methods and tools, and Clinical studies
• Vocabulary update: mapping local concepts to ICD-10-CN and SNOMED, and ICD-10-CN 6-digit to SNOMED
Japan
• Going to start a mapping project for drugs
Taiwan
• OHDSI Taiwan Official website currently under development
• Joined APAC Hypertension study and will join CORAZON study
Australia
• Upcoming 2021 ODHSI Australia Webinar Series – CaVa: Populating the OMOP oncology extension directly from clinical data
Singapore
• Ministry of Health in Singapore will adopt OMOP methodologies for real-world studies
Topic – ODHSI APAC OMOP Projects
• Assistant Professor Yuan Lu: Comprehensive comparative effectiveness and safety of second-line antihypertensive agents: Utilizing the LEGEND principles to mobilize collaboration across the OHDSI APAC network
• Professor Namki Hong: Development of Common Data Model for Rare Endocrine Diseases (REDCDM) platform
Recordings
Yuan Lu
Namki Hong
Topic – ODHSI APAC Network Research
Dr. Lei Feng: Treatment Patterns and Risk of Switch to Mania in Bipolar Depressive Patients Treated with Antidepressants: A real world study using the OHDSI Network
Slides
Recording
Theme – Collaborator Showcase
Meeting contents included the following OHDSI presentations:
• Ty Stanford – Mapping to standardized vocabularies: a process for medicine codes in Australia
• Jason Hsu and Alex Aguyen – Introduction of Taipei Medical University Clinical Research Database; TMUCDR – OHDSI CDM Mapping Progress
Slides
Recordings
Ty Stanford
Jason Hsu
Theme: Welcome To OHDSI
Meeting contents included:
• Patrick Ryan and Mui Van Zandt introduce the OHDSI community and OHDSI APAC
• OHDSI experience sharing from 3 APAC collaborators
• Q&A from the audience
Recording
Theme: Kickoff & 2021 Goals
Meeting contents included:
• Introductions to OHDSI APAC community calls
• Introductions to each of the 6 OHDSI APAC chapters
• 2021 OKR goals of OHDSI APAC
