Sept. 8, 2022 – EU Chapter Sharing Session

• OHDSI News
• New OHDSI Studies: Call for Participation
• EU Chapter Sharing Session
  
  • Greece by Pantelis Natsiavas, Institute of Applied Biosciences, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (INAB|CERTH)
  • Israel by Guy Livne, Ministry of Health of Israel

Slides

Video

Aug. 25, 2022 – Workgroup Updates (Natural Language Processing, Phenotype Development & Evaluation, FHIR & OMOP)

• OHDSI News
• New OHDSI Studies: Call for Participation
• Workgroup Updates
  • Natural Language Processing (Hua Xu)
  • Phenotype Development & Evaluation (Gowtham Rao and Jamie Weaver)
  • FHIR & OMOP (Martijn Christian Reich)

Video

Aug. 11, 2022 – Workgroup Updates (Healthcare Systems, Oncology, HADES)

• OHDSI News
• Workgroup Updates
  • Healthcare Systems (Melanie Philofsky)
  • Oncology (Asieh Golozar)
  • HADES – Health Analytics Data-to-Evidence Suite (Martijn Schuemie)

Slides

Video

July 28, 2022 – APAC Study Updates, Part 2 (Ivan Lam Chun Hang, Nicole Pratt)

• OHDSI News
• APAC Study Quarterly Updates Part 2

  • Comparison of mortality, morbidities & healthcare resources utilisation between patients with and without a diagnosis of
    COVID-19 by Ivan Lam Chun Hang

  • Treatment, utilisation and safety of medicines for multiple sclerosis (TELEMUS) by Nicole Pratt

Slides

Video

July 14, 2022 – APAC Study Updates, Part 1 (Seng Chan You, Chungsoo Kim)

• OHDSI News
• APAC Study Quarterly Updates Part I
  • Characterization of Health by OHDSI AP chapter to identify Temporal Effect of the Pandemic by Seng Chan You
  • Data quality of OHDSI APAC: CDM Inspection study by Chungsoo Kim
• 2022 OHDSI APAC Symposium Overview

Slides

Video

June 30, 2022 – European Symposium Recap and Regional Chapter Mid-Year Updates (Japan, Korea, China)

Slides

Video

June 16, 2022 – Regional Chapter Mid-Year Updates

– OHDSI News: OHDSI/SNOMED collaboration announcement by Christian Reich
– Collaborator Spotlight: Nicole Pratt
– Chapter mid-year updates from Taiwan, Singapore and Australia

Slides

Video

June 2, 2022 – Tutorial: Incidence and prevalence: Concepts and implementation in OHDSI (Patrick Ryan)

Slides

Tutorial

Video

May 19, 2022 – Tutorials: Concept Set and Cohort Creationn (Kyulee Jeonn) and ATLAS Characterization (Yizhi Dong)

Slides

Mini-Tutorials

Video

May 5, 2022 – Cohort Diagnostic Tool (presentation by Gowtham Rao)

Meeting Format

• OHDSI APAC News
• Announcement of OHDSI APAC 2022 Symposium on Nov. 12-13 (virtual and in-person)
• Cohort Diagnostic Tools presentation

Slides

OHDSI APAC Updates | Cohort Diagnostic Tools

Video

April 21, 2022 – APAC Study Quarterly Updates

Meeting Format

• OHDSI News
• APAC Study Quarterly updates
  • Characterization of non-communicable disease across the pre- and post- COVID-19 era – led by Seng Chan You
  • Comparison of mortality, morbidities & healthcare resources utilization between patients with and without a diagnosis of COVID-19 – led by Celine Chui, Shirley Li, Eric Wan
  • Quality assessment of CDM databases across the OHDSI-AP network – led by Chungsoo Kim

Slides

• Comparison of mortality, morbidities & healthcare resources utilisation between patients with and without a diagnosis of COVID-19
• Data quality of OHDSI APAC:CDM Inspection study
• CHAPTERCharacterization of Health by OHDSI AP chapter to identify Temporal Effect of the Pandemic

Video

April 7, 2022 – Workgroup Updates: Medical Imaging, CDM, Data Quality and ATLAS (presentations by Ceng Chan You, Clair Blacketer and Anthony Sena)

Meeting Format

• OHDSI News
• Future OHDSI APAC Community Call Preview
• FHIR-OMOP collaboration – Christian Reich

Slides

APAC Updates

Video Presentation

March 24 • FHIR-OMOP Collaboration (presentation by Christian Reich)

Meeting Format

• OHDSI News
• Future OHDSI APAC Community Call Preview
• FHIR-OMOP collaboration – Christian Reich

Slides

APAC Updates

Video Presentation

March 10 • OHDSI News & Phenotype Phebruary Review

Slides

APAC Updates

Video Presentation

Feb. 24 • OHDSI APAC News & CDM Workshop Part 2

Slides

APAC Updates

Clair Blacketer led Part 2 of the CDM workshop. You can find Part 1 in the Jan. 27 meeting video presentation below.

Video Presentation

Feb. 10 • OHDSI APAC News & Phenotype Phebruary

Slides

Phenotype Phebruary | APAC Updates

The next APAC Community Call will be Feb. 24, when Clair Blacketer will lead Part 2 of the CDM workshop.

Video Presentation

Jan. 27 APAC Community Call: CDM Workshop

Workshop Q&A | Meeting Slides

Video Presentation

Jan. 13 APAC Community Call

Topics of Discussion:

1. Welcome Back & 2021 Summaries
2. 2022 APAC & Chapter Goals
3. 2022 OHDSI Global: Where Should We Go And How Should We Get There?

Next Community Call: Jan. 27 (CDM Workshop)

Meeting Slides

Video Presentation

Symposium Review and Presentations

• OHDSI News (Slides)
• Study discussion 

• • Real world safety of treatments for multiple sclerosis – by Nicole Pratt (Slides)
  • Quality assessment of CDM databases across the OHDSI-AP network – by Chungsoo Kim (Slides)

• OHDSI Holiday Surprise

Symposium Review and Presentations

• APAC Symposium Review – by Jing Li • Slides

• Characterization of non-communicable diseases – by Seng Chan You

• Comparison of mortality, morbidities & healthcare resources utilization between patients with and without a diagnosis of COVID-19 – by Eric Wan • Slides

OHDSI APAC Symposium

Morning Presentations

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)

Slides
Kumarin | You

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

Topic: OHDSI APAC Network Research

Byungkon Kang: Automated terminology mapping via deep learning-based semantic matching | SLIDES

Ty Stanford: LEGEND Shiny App | SLIDES

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

Feng

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

Stanford | Hsu/Aguyen

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

View The Presentation Slides

Recording