Weekly OHDSI Digest – August 26, 2024

WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING

Due to ISPE 2024, there will not be a community call this week. Please join us Tuesday, Sept. 3, for our next community call, when we hear about the latest standardized vocabulary refresh from our Vocabulary Team.

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 SHOUTOUTS

Congratulations to the team of Margaret A French, Paul Hartman, Heather A Hayes, Leah Ling, John Magel, and Anne Thackeray on the publication on Coverage of physical therapy assessments in the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership Model common data model in Applied Clinical Informatics.

• Congratulations to the team of Florian Katsch, Rada Hussein, and Georg Duftschmid on the publication of Converting Entity-Attribute-Value Data Sources to OMOP’s CDM: Lessons Learned in Vol. 316 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Digital Health and Informatics Innovations for Sustainable Health Care Systems.

• Congratulations to the team of Evgeniy Krastev, Ralitsa Krasteva, Mario Fazli, and Dimitar Tcharaktchiev on the publication of Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease Prevalence in Bulgaria During 2018: Nationally Representative Study in Vol. 316 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Digital Health and Informatics Innovations for Sustainable Health Care Systems.

• Congratulations to the team of Ricardo L. Santos and Ricardo Cruz-Correia on the publication of Improving Healthcare Quality with a LHS: From Patient-Generated Health Data to Evidence-Based Recommendations in Vol. 316 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Digital Health and Informatics Innovations for Sustainable Health Care Systems.

• Congratulations to the team of Aikaterini Lymperidou, Judith Martinez-Gonzalez, Guillem Bracons Cucó, Santiago Frid, Rafael de Cid, and Alberto Labarga on the publication of DATOS-CAT: OMOP-Common Data Model for the Standardization, Integration and Analysis of Population-Based Biomedical Data in Catalonia in Vol. 316 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Digital Health and Informatics Innovations for Sustainable Health Care Systems.

• Congratulations to the team of Prabath Jathissa, Lukas Rohatsch, Stefan Sauermann, and Rada Hussein on the publication of OMOP-on-FHIR: A FHIR Server Development to Facilitate Data Interaction with the OMOP-CDM and FHIR for PGHD in Vol. 316 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Digital Health and Informatics Innovations for Sustainable Health Care Systems.

• Congratulations to the team of Guillem Bracons Cucó, Jessyca Gil Rojas, Petter Peñafiel Macias, Xavier Borrat Frigola, Aikaterini Lymperidou, Judith Martínez-González, Alberto Labarga, and Santiago Frid on the publication of OntoBridge Versus Traditional ETL: Enhancing Data Standardization into CDM Formats Using Ontologies Within the DATOS-CAT Project in Vol. 316 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Digital Health and Informatics Innovations for Sustainable Health Care Systems.

• Congratulations to the team of Rodrigo Albarran and Jean-Baptiste Lamy on the publication of Enhancing Healthcare Informatics: Integrating Category Theory Reasoning into OMOP-CDM Ontology Model in Vol. 316 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Digital Health and Informatics Innovations for Sustainable Health Care Systems.

• Congratulations to the team of Achilleas Chytas, Nick Bassileiades, and Pantelis Natsiavas on the publication of Mapping OMOP-CDM to RDF: Bringing Real-World-Data to the Semantic Web Realm in Vol. 316 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Digital Health and Informatics Innovations for Sustainable Health Care Systems.

• Congratulations to the team of Mirna El Ghosh, Varvara Kalokyri, Mélanie Sambres, Morgan Vaterkowski, Catherine Duclos, Xavier Tannier, Gianna Tsakou, Manolis Tsiknakis, Christel Daniel, and Ferdinand Dhombres on the publication of From Syntactic to Semantic Interoperability Using a Hyperontology in the Oncology Domain in Vol. 316 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Digital Health and Informatics Innovations for Sustainable Health Care Systems.

• Congratulations to the team of Grigoris Papapostolou, Achilleas Chytas, Alexandros Rekkas, Maria Bigaki, Demetrios Zeimpekis, Lampros Dermentzoglou, George Tortopidis, and Pantelis Natsiavas on the publication of Real-World Data in Greece: Mapping the Papageorgiou General Hospital Data to the OMOP Common Data Model in Vol. 316 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Digital Health and Informatics Innovations for Sustainable Health Care Systems.

• Congratulations to the team of Amelie Gyrard, Philip Gribbon, Rada Hussein, Somayeh Abedian, Luis Marti Bonmati, Gibi Luisa Cabornero, George Manias, Gabriel Danciu, Stefano Dalmiani, Serge Autexier, Rick van Nuland, Mario Jendrossek, Ioannis Avramidis, and Eva Garcia Alvarez on the publication of Synergies Among Health Data Projects with Cancer Use Cases Based on Health Standards in Vol. 316 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Digital Health and Informatics Innovations for Sustainable Health Care Systems.

• Congratulations to the team of João A. Reis, João R. Almeida, Tiago M. Almeida, and José L. Oliveira on the publication of A Chatbot-Like Platform to Enhance the Discovery of OMOP CDM Databases in Vol. 316 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Digital Health and Informatics Innovations for Sustainable Health Care Systems.

• Congratulations to the team of Benjamin Popoff, Boris Delange, Julien Kallout, Marc Cuggia, Thomas Clavier, and Guillaume Bouzille on the publication on How to Accurately Detect Renal Replacement Therapy Weaning in Intensive Care: Data Quality and Standardization Considerations for the OMOP Common Data Model in Vol. 316 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Digital Health and Informatics Innovations for Sustainable Health Care Systems.

• Congratulations to the team of Jakob Thiel, Igor Nesterow, Martin Sedlmayr, Jens Weidner, and Elisa Henke on the publication on Towards Efficient Resource Utilization Forecasting in Acute Heat Events Using OMOP in Vol. 316 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Digital Health and Informatics Innovations for Sustainable Health Care Systems.

• Congratulations to the team of Waldemar Hahn, Najia Ahmadi, Katja Hoffmann, Jan-Niklas Eckardt, Martin Sedlmayr, and Markus Wolfien on the publication on Synthetic Data Generation in Hematology – Paving the Way for OMOP and FHIR Integration in Vol. 316 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Digital Health and Informatics Innovations for Sustainable Health Care Systems.

OHDSI UPDATES

The next edition of the CBER BEST Seminar Series will be held Sept. 11 (11 am – 12 pm). We are excited to welcome Martí Català Sabaté, Medical Statistician and Data Scientist at the University of Oxford, who will provide a presentation on “Observational methods for COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness research: an empirical evaluation and target trial emulation.” You can use this link to join the session.

• Nominations for the 2024 Titan Awards are now open. The Titan Awards recognize OHDSI collaborators (or collaborating institutions) for their contributions towards OHDSI’s mission; they are nominated and voted upon by members of the community.

• 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.

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 — The MOMIS platform: semantic integration and machine learning to improve the OMOP CDM harmonisation process (Enrico Calanchi)

Tuesday — Characterisation of Heavy Menstrual Bleeding (HMB) in 11 data sources from 9 countries using OMOP-CDM: a European Health Data & Evidence Network study (Marta Pineda Moncusí)

Wednesday — Development of an Automated and (near) Real-Time (ART) OMOP-CDM ETL System in Taiwan (Alex PA Nguyen)

Thursday — Predicting Colorectal Cancer Liver Metastases using TMUCRD-Mapped OMOP CDM (Yudha E. Saputra)

Friday — Common Data Environment and ICD family mappings implications (Irina Zherko)

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: Developing 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.

Book Your Hotel Sleeping room OHDSI Symposium (hyatt.com) If this block shows sold out, you may book a room on the hotel’s website at their prevailing rate Boom your hotel room on the Hyatt’s website

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JOB OPENINGS

Ajit Londhe announced an opening for a Senior Associate Director, Real World Evidence and Analytics at Boehringer Ingelheim. The candidate for this remote position will have the opportunity to generate real world evidence (RWE) to support in-line and pipeline products, provide statistical advice on the analysis of real world data (RWD) to various internal and external stakeholders, contribute to the RWD acquisition strategy and tool evaluation, and participate in the development and presentation of RWE trainings. More information and an application link are available here.

• Aki Nishimura announced that Johns Hopkins University is seeking postdoctoral fellows. The fellows would work on methodological research in pharmaco-epidemiology to address medication and device utilization, effectiveness, and safety relevant to health, lung, and blood diseases. More information and application details are available here.

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