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.
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.
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.
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.
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
July 28, 2022 – APAC Study Updates, Part 2 (Ivan Lam Chun Hang, Nicole Pratt)
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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
– OHDSI News: OHDSI/SNOMED collaboration announcement by Christian Reich – Collaborator Spotlight: Nicole Pratt – Chapter mid-year updates from Taiwan, Singapore and Australia
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
• 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
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.
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)
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
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)
Topics • Discussion of the Aug. 12-13 ETL Tutorial • Singapore Regional Update • Seng Chan You presented on “An Introduction to the OMOP Oncology Module”
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
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
• 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
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
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
Meeting contents included: • Introductions to OHDSI APAC community calls • Introductions to each of the 6 OHDSI APAC chapters • 2021 OKR goals of OHDSI APAC