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.
OHDSI APAC Community in Teams
The APAC community has its own group in the OHDSI MS Teams environment to promote greater collaboration on our collaborative efforts. First, request access to our MS Teams Environment, then request access to our OHDSI APAC workgroup.
APAC Bi-weekly Community Call
Everybody is invited to the bi-weekly OHDSI APAC community call, which takes place every other Thursday at 12 pm Korea time. These calls are meant to provide updates, share research presentations, collaborate on topics of shared interest, and plenty more. The upcoming schedule is available to the right.
Use this link to get to the bi-weekly meeting.
2022 APAC Studies
In 2021 APAC Symposium, the four studies below were selected by the community to work together in 2022.
- Characterization of non-communicable disease across the pre- and post- COVID-19 era – by Seng Chan You (seng.chan.you@ohdsi.org)
- Comparison of mortality, morbidities & healthcare resources utilization between patients with and without a diagnosis of COVID-19 – by Celine Chui (cceline@connect.hku.hk), Shirley Li (sxueli@hku.hk), Eric Wan (yfwan@hku.hk)
- Real world safety of treatments for multiple sclerosis – by Nicole Pratt (nicole.pratt@unisa.edu.au)
- Quality assessment of CDM databases across the OHDSI-AP network – by Chungsoo Kim (ted9219@ajou.ac.kr)
Study documents and meeting recordings are saved under each study channel in OHDSI APAC Teams.
Study liaisons from each chapter are working closely with the study owners, and we appreciate all the help and support.
APAC Study Liaisons: Meet The Team
Past APAC Events
The first OHDSI APAC Symposium provided an opportunity for our Asia-Pacific collaborators to share research, updates, and network discussions. The meeting recordings are saved in 2020 APAC Symposium Teams.
The 2021 OHDSI Symposium featured a set of presentations including the State of the Global and APAC Community, the EHDEN Consortium and the FHIR/OHDSI collaboration, study sessions, workgroup meetings and a collaborator showcase.
2021 APAC ETL Training Tutorial 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.
Regional Chapter Webpages: Australia | China | Japan | Korea | Taiwan | Singapore (no homepage currently)
Dec. 15, 2022 – APAC Year In Review
- OHDSI News
- Holiday Surprise!
- APAC 2022 Highlights
- APAC 2023 Preview
Video
Nov. 3, 2022 – APAC Study Quarterly Updates
- OHDSI News
- APAC Study Quarterly Updates
- Characterization of health by OHDSI AP chapter to identify temporal effect of the pandemic (CHAPTER) by Seng Chan You
- Comparison of mortality, morbidities & healthcare resources utilisation between patients with and without a diagnosis of COVID-19 by Ivan Chun Hang Lam
- Data quality of OHDSI APAC: CDM inspection study by Chungsoo KimAPAC Study Quarterly Updates
Video
Oct. 20, 2022 – Global Symposium Recap
- OHDSI News
- Collaborator Spotlight: Jing Li
- Global Symposium Recap
- Dong Yun Lee, Ajou University Medical School
- Kyu Lee Jeon, Yonsei University Health System
Video
Oct. 6, 2022 – India Chapter Intro & Clinical Registry Efforts
- OHDSI News
- India Chapter Introduction by Swetha Kiran, Global Value Web
- Clinical Registry Efforts in OHDSI
Video
Sept. 8, 2022 – EU Chapter Sharing Session
- OHDSI News
- EU & Latin America Chapter Sharing Session
- Finland by Javier Gracia-Tabuenca, FinnGen
- Ukraine by Mariia Kolesnyk, SciForce
- Latin America by Jose David Posada Aguilar, Department of Computer and Systems Engineering, Universidad del Norte
Video
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
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)
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 HangTreatment, utilisation and safety of medicines for multiple sclerosis (TELEMUS) by Nicole Pratt
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
Video
June 30, 2022 – European Symposium Recap and Regional Chapter Mid-Year Updates (Japan, Korea, China)
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
Video
June 2, 2022 – Tutorial: Incidence and prevalence: Concepts and implementation in OHDSI (Patrick Ryan)
Slides
Video
May 19, 2022 – Tutorials: Concept Set and Cohort Creationn (Kyulee Jeonn) and ATLAS Characterization (Yizhi Dong)
Slides
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
• CHAPTER Characterization 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
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
Video Presentation
Feb. 24 • OHDSI APAC News & CDM Workshop Part 2
Slides
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. 13 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
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