We shared some potential focuses for 2025 during the Jan. 7 community call, and they each require collaboration within the community. During this call, we provided a forum to discuss opportunities, meet new potential collaborators and ideally build connections that can spark this work.

Community Updates

• Congratulations to the team of Melissa Finster, Maxim Moinat and Elham Taghizadeh on the recent publication of ETL: From the German Health Data Lab data formats to the OMOP Common Data Model in PLOS One.

• Congratulations to the team of Martijn Schuemie, Anna Ostropolets, Aleh Zhuk, Uladzislau Korsik, Seung In Seo, Marc Suchard, George Hripcsak and Patrick Ryan on the recent publication of Standardized patient profile review using large language models for case adjudication in observational research in NPJ Digital Medicine.

• Congratulations to the team of Noah Hong, Yeh-Hee Ko, Jeong Hyun Park, Eun Jin Ha, Sung Ho Lee, Kang Min Kim, Hyun-Seung Kang, Jeong Eun Kim, Kwangsoo Kim, and Won-Sang Cho on the recent publication of A common data model for oral anticoagulants-related risk of spontaneous intracranial hemorrhage in the Journal of Clinical Neuroscience.

• Congratulations to the team of Young-Eun Kwon, Shin-Young Ahn, Gang-Jee Ko, Young-Joo Kwon and Ji-Eun Kim on the recent publication of Impact of Uric Acid Levels on Mortality and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Relation to Kidney Function in the Journal of Clinical Medicine.

• Congratulations to the team of Mitchell Conover, Patrick Ryan, Yong Chen, Marc Suchard, George Hripcsak, and Martijn Schuemie on the recent publication of Objective study validity diagnostics: a framework requiring pre-specified, empirical verification to increase trust in the reliability of real-world evidence in JAMIA.

• Each year, workgroup representatives join a February community call to present the mission, objectives and key results for their respective groups. These 2-4 minute presentations are recorded and posted on the Workgroups homepage on OHDSI.org. Please choose a date to sign up for a February date; once a date has at least 10 workgroups, it will be closed.

• The next edition of the CBER BEST Seminar Series will be Jan. 15, 2025 at 11 am ET. We are happy to welcome Sonia Hernández-Díaz, MD, DrPH, Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, who will provide a talk on “Emulation of Target Trial on Vaccinations During Pregnancy.” More information and the meeting link are available on the CBER BEST series homepage.

• The CDM Survey subgroup invites colleagues who have or are going to design, develop, and/or implement research surveys and use them with the OMOP CDM to share information about those efforts by completing this survey. Your completion of this 10-15 minute survey will provide information to the CDM workgroup about OMOP utilization among survey research teams.  The CDM Survey subgroup is a collaborative effort, led by a team at the National Cancer Institute, to develop standardized approaches and best practices for helping research teams better integrate survey data elements into the OMOP common data model. The survey will remain open through mid-January.

• All videos and slides from the main conference of the 2024 OHDSI Global Symposium are now available on the event homepage. You can also find the 136 posters and software demos from our collaborator showcase. Videos of all the tutorials have also been posted.

Save The Dates

• The OHDSI Europe Symposium will be hosted by the OHDSI Belgium Node on 5-7 July 2025 in the “Old Prison” building of Hasselt University in Hasselt, Belgium. Agenda and registration information will be shared when available.

• The first OHDSI Latin-America (LATAM) Symposium will be held July 31-August 1 in Salvador, Brazil. More information will be shared when available.

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 — Lessons from mapping cancer information from European hospitals to ICD-O-3 conditions in OMOP (Lars Halvorsen)
Tuesday — Jackalope Plus Performance: Benchmarking and Competitors (Denys Kaduk)
Wednesday — Trade-offs in the design of explainable prediction models for health care (Aniek Markus)
Thursday — An interactive approach for data exploration and phenotyping in the Data2Evidence platform (Satish Anbazhagan)
Friday — An Active Safety Surveillance Using Real-World Evidence (ASSURE) Approach to Pharmacovigilance Signal Evaluation: The case of infliximab and alternative autoimmune conditions (Kevin Haynes)

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OHDSI kicked off its 2025 community calls with a session focused on where we can go together over the next 12 months. Patrick Ryan highlighted four focus areas for the community: guideline-driven evidence generation, evidence-driven data standardization, evidence-driven open-source development, and evidence-driven collaborative education. There were details about monthly events, and upcoming clinical/scientific conferences over the next 18 months that can be end goals for dissemination. 

Community Updates

• Congratulations to the team of Shuxin Zhang, Ronald Cornet and Nirupama Benis on the recent publication of Cross-Standard Health Data Harmonization using Semantics of Data Elements in Scientific Data.

• Congratulations to the team of Tobias Freyberg Justesen, Adile Orhan, Andreas Weinberger Rosen, Mikail Gögenur, and Ismail Gögenur on the recent publication of Mismatch Repair Status and Surgical Outcomes in Localized Colorectal Cancer: A Nationwide Cohort Study in Annals of Surgery Open.

• Congratulations to the team of Rowdy de Groot, Frank van der Graaff, Daniël van der Doelen, Michiel Luijten, Ronald De Meyer, Hekmat Alrouh, Hedy van Oers, Jacintha Tieskens, Josjan Zijlmans, Meike Bartels, Arne Popma, Nicolette de Keizer, Ronald Cornet, and Tinca Polderman on the recent publication of Implementing Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable (FAIR) Principles in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Research: Mixed Methods Approach in JMIR Mental Health.

• Congratulations to the team of Chen Yanover, Ramit Magen-Rimon, Erica A. Voss, Joel Swerdel, Anna Sheahan, Nathan Hall, Jimyung Park, Rae Woong Park, Kwang Jae Lee, Sung Jae Shin, Seung In Seo, Kyung-Joo Lee, Thomas Falconer, Leonard Haas, Paul Nagy, Mary Grace Bowring, Michael Cook, Steven Miller, Tal El-Hay, Maytal Bivas-Benita, Pinchas Akiva, Yehuda Chowers and Roni Weisshof on the recent publication of Characteristics and Outcomes of Over a Million Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Seven Countries: Multinational Cohort Study and Open Data Resource in Digestive Diseases & Sciences.

• Congratulations to the team of Yu Jeong Lee, Jinmi Kim, Dong Han Yu, Nam Kyung Je and Harin Rhee on the recent publication of Long-term use of proton pump inhibitors was associated with rapid progression to end stage kidney disease in a Korean nationwide study in Scientific Reports.

 • Congratulations to the team of Harry-Anton Talvik, Marek Oja, Sirli Tamm, Kerli Mooses, Dage Särg, Marcus Lõo, Õie Renata Siimon, Hendrik Šuvalov, Raivo Kolde, Jaak Vilo, Sulev Reisberg, and Sven Laur on the recent publication of Repeatable process for extracting health data from HL7 CDA documents in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics.

• Congratulations to the team of Anna O. Basile, Anurag Verma, Leigh Anne Tang, Marina Serper, Andrew Scanga, Ava Farrell, Brittney Destin, Rotonya M. Carr, Anuli Anyanwu-Ofili, Gunaretnam Rajagopal, Abraham Krikhely, Marc Bessler, Muredach P. Reilly, Marylyn D. Ritchie, Nicholas P. Tatonetti, and Julia Wattacheril on the recent publication of Rapid identification and phenotyping of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease patients using a machine-based approach in diverse healthcare systems in Clinical and Translational Science.

• Congratulations to the team of Rowdy de Groot, Savannah Glaser, Alexandra Kogan, Stephanie Medlock, Anna Alloni, Matteo Gabetta, Szymon Wilk, Nicolette de Keizer, and Ronald Cornet on the recent publication of ATC-to-RxNorm mappings – A comparison between OHDSI Standardized Vocabularies and UMLS Metathesaurus in the International Journal of Medical Informatics.

• Save The Date! The OHDSI Europe Symposium will be hosted by the OHDSI Belgium Node on 5-7 July 2025 in the “Old Prison” building of Hasselt University in Hasselt, Belgium. Agenda and registration information will be shared when available.

• Each year, workgroup representatives join a February community call to present the mission, objectives and key results for their respective groups. These 2-4 minute presentations are recorded and posted on the Workgroups homepage on OHDSI.org. Please choose a date to sign up for a February date; once a date has at least 10 workgroups, it will be closed.

• The next edition of the CBER BEST Seminar Series will be Jan. 15, 2025 at 11 am ET. We are happy to welcome Sonia Hernández-Díaz, MD, DrPH, Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, who will provide a talk on “Emulation of Target Trial on Vaccinations During Pregnancy.” More information and the meeting link are available on the CBER BEST series homepage.

• The latest edition of The Journey Newsletter is now available. The latest edition reflects back on 2024, highlights 10 recent published studies, and includes community updates, the latest collaborator spotlight, OHDSI presentations, and more.

• The CDM Survey subgroup invites colleagues who have or are going to design, develop, and/or implement research surveys and use them with the OMOP CDM to share information about those efforts by completing this survey. Your completion of this 10-15 minute survey will provide information to the CDM workgroup about OMOP utilization among survey research teams.  The CDM Survey subgroup is a collaborative effort, led by a team at the National Cancer Institute, to develop standardized approaches and best practices for helping research teams better integrate survey data elements into the OMOP common data model. The survey will remain open through mid-January.

• All videos and slides from the main conference of the 2024 OHDSI Global Symposium are now available on the event homepage. You can also find the 136 posters and software demos from our collaborator showcase. Videos of all the tutorials have also been posted.

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 — Institutionalizing data interoperability and the application of common data models in a health data and research center: CIDACS’ experience in Brazil (Valentina Martufi)
Tuesday —Characterizing Phenotype Descriptions in All of Us Publications (Emily Clark)
Wednesday — Fine-Tuning Foundational AI Models to Code Diagnoses from Veterinary Health Records (Mayla R. Boguslav)
Thursday — Brain-penetrant calcium channel blockers for psychiatric use: revisiting the evidence for benefit (David Kern)
Friday —CohortOperations: A Modular Web Tool for Enhanced Cohort Analysis on the OMOP-CDM (Javier Gracia-Tabuenca)

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