Weekly OHDSI Digest – August 12, 2024

WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING

Please join us for our Aug. 13 community call (11 am ET), when we take an in-depth look at the Global Symposium schedule. We will focus on the first two days of the event, with descriptions of both the Tuesday tutorials and the Wednesday main conference.

Everybody is invited. Calendar invites went out last week. If you did not receive one, please use this link to join the meeting. All recordings from these weekly calls are available within our Teams environment and will be posted on both our YouTube page and our OHDSI.org Community Calls page.

WEEKLY WORKING GROUP MEETINGS

Upcoming Workgroup Calls – OHDSI

OHDSI UPDATES

The agenda for the main conference day of the 2024 OHDSI Global Symposium is now available. The August 13 community call will focus on both the main conference day and a look at the individual tutorials.

• The Eye Care & Vision Research workgroup is leading a Semaglutide NAION network study based on last week’s OHDSI Evidence Network presentation. Cindy Cai and Michelle Hribar discussed this study and the value of network collaboration; please use this link to join the Eye Care & Vision Workgroup.

• The 2024 OHDSI Asia-Pacific (APAC) Symposium will be held December 6-9 in Singapore. Regional co-chairs Mengling ‘Mornin’ Feng and Ngial Kee Yuan will lead this event, which has a theme of “When OHDSI Meets with AI.” Registration information will be posted when available.

• The fifth European OHDSI Symposium, titled “Scaling up Reliable Evidence Across Europe,” was held June 1-3 and brought together data partners, regulators, and researchers to collaborate and share results and ideas about the use of the OMOP-CDM in Europe. All materials from the session, including talks focused on the Selection of European Initiatives Using the OMOP CDM and Large Scale Evidence Generation in EHDEN and DARWIN EU®, as well as the collaborator showcase, can be found all on the event homepage.

OHDSI Social Showcase

• Research from the 2024 Europe Symposium Collaborator Showcase is also being shared daily on OHDSI’s LinkedInTwitter/X and Instagram feeds as part of the #OHDSISocialShowcase. Below are posters (with study leads) that are featured this week:

Monday — Harmonising Surgical Data: Experience from the Hip Fracture ‘Mini Federated Network of Registries’ (Marissa G. Fiorello)

Tuesday — Structured and unstructured data from first and second line care combined in OMOP data warehouses (Thibault Helleputte)

Wednesday — Lessons Learned from EHDEN Data Partner Reviews: Improving ETL Processes and Data Quality in OMOP CDM Conversions (Evanette K Burrows)

Thursday — Implementing value based oncology care at European cancer hospitals (Mads Andersen)

Friday — OHDSI meets Flowise to Streamline Biomedical Data Discovery and Analysis (João Reis)

OHDSI GLOBAL SYMPOSIUM

• Registration is now open for the 2024 Global Symposium , which will be held Oct. 22-24 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, N.J., USA. The three-day event will feature tutorials on Day 1, plenaries and the collaborator showcase on Day 2, and workgroup activities on Day 3.

• Day 1 will open with a single tutorial in the morning: An Introduction to the Journey from Data to Evidence using OHDSI. There will be four advanced tutorials during the afternoon: An Introduction to the Journey from Data to Evidence using OHDSIDeveloping and Evaluating Your Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) Process to the OMOP Common Data ModelSo, You Think You Want To Run an OHDSI Network Study?; and Using the OHDSI Standardized Vocabularies for Research. You can select your tutorials during the registration process.

The agenda for the main conference day of the 2024 OHDSI Global Symposium is now available. The August 13 community call will focus on both the main conference day and a look at the individual tutorials.

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