Weekly OHDSI Digest-December 13, 2021

WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETINGS

Please join us for our holiday-themed final community call of 2021 on Tuesday, Dec. 14 at 11 am ET. This was one of our most popular calls of last year, and we have some fun surprises planned for this call.

OUR PART: If we told you, they wouldn’t be surprises.

YOUR PART: We would love for as many community members as possible to join us in celebrating the gifts given to OHDSI in 2021. Here’s how this will work:

• Following our updates and some fun, we will open the floor to all of you to thank ONE PERSON (two if it is an absolute collaboration, but no full teams) for something they provided in 2021. Maybe it was something they did for you individually, maybe it was something they did for the full community … either way, this is the chance for them to be recognized for their “gift.”

• Anybody who wants to take part will raise their hands in Teams, and we’ll go through the list. Once somebody is thanked, however, they can’t be thanked again! We are spreading the love around, so it might be good to have a couple people ready, just in case (there were more than enough contributions to OHDSI this year that can be recognized). This should be a fun exercise … who doesn’t like thinking about ways others helped out?

• Once you thank somebody, you can’t come back and thank somebody else. We want to maximize community participation. Speaking of that …

• If you are new to the community (maybe you’ve rarely or never spoken on these calls), we would really love to hear from you this Tuesday. Who helped you get started on your journey? Who helped guide you to a more comfortable place?

The goal is to get a minimum of 21 gifts to wrap up a memorable 2021 for our community (but we’re aiming for many more than that!). Please join us, have some fun, and close out the year by sharing the amazing spirit that has driven our community through a challenging, but also highly rewarding, year.

Many of you will have the calendar link in your OHDSI Teams environment. If not, you will need the specific meeting link to access the community call; it will also be posted in the main OHDSI Teams environment. As always, if you can’t make it, the recordings will be posted to both our Community Calls page and the General OHDSI Teams recordings folder.

WEEKLY WORKING GROUP CALL MEETINGS

GIS-Geographic Information System WG GENERAL Meeting: Monday, Dec. 13 at 10 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Monday at 10 am ET.

FHIR and OMOP WG-Terminologies Subgroup: Meeting: Monday, Dec. 13 at 2pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Monday at 2pm ET. NOTE: This meeting takes place on Zoom but please check the Teams Work Group for information and updates. Zoom Details:Meeting ID: 685 509 3136 Passcode: 710256

OMOP CDM Oncology WG – Genomic Subgroup Meeting: Tuesday, Dec. 14 at 9 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Tuesday at 9 am ET

Common Data Model WG – Vocabulary Subgroup: Tuesday, Dec 14 at 12pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at 12:00 ET, alternating with the general CDM WG.

Health Equity WG: Tuesday, Dec. 14 at 2 pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Tuesday at 2 pm ET.

FHIR and OMOP WG – Data Model Harmonization Subgroup Meeting: Wednesday Dec 15 at 9 ET (Meeting Link) Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the 3rd Wednesday. NOTE: This meeting takes place on Zoom but please check the Teams Work Group for information and updates. Meeting ID: 971 1680 7510 Passcode: 143545

OMOP CDM Oncology WG – Development Subgroup Meeting: Wednesday, Dec. 15 at 10 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Wednesday at 10 am ET.

FHIR and OMOP WG- Digital Quality Measurements Subgroup: Wed. Dec 15 at 10am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Wednesday at 10 am ET. NOTE: This meeting takes place on Zoom but please check the Teams Work Group for information and updates Zoom Details: Meeting ID: 836 4585 6405 Passcode: 552204

Data Quality Dashboard Development WG: Wednesday, Dec. 15 at 1 pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the third Wednesday of each month at 1 pm ET. THIS THIS MEETING IS CANCELLED

Medical Imaging WG: Wednesday, Dec 15 at 7 pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Wednesday alternating between 7am and 7 pm ET.

FHIR and OMOP WG-Oncology Subgroup: Thursday, Dec. 16 at 12 pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Thursday at 12pm ET

OMOP CDM Oncology WG – CDM/Vocabulary Subgroup Meeting: Thursday, Dec. 16 at 1 pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Thursday at 1 pm ET

HADES WG: Thursday, Dec. 16 at 12 pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the third Thursday of each month at 12 pm ET.

Vaccine Vocabulary WG: Friday, Dec. 17 at 9 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Friday at 9am ET.

Health Equity Journal Club: Friday, Dec. 17 at 4pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the third Friday of each month at 4pm ET.

Electronic Health Record WG: Monday, Dec. 20 at 10 am ET (Meeting Link) THIS MEETING IS CANCELLED
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Monday at 10 am ET. (PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A REVISED MEETING DAY)

OHDSI UPDATES

Registration opened last week for the 2022 OHDSI European Symposium, which will be held March 11 on the Steam Ship Rotterdam in The Netherlands. There will be tutorials held on the Steam Ship Rotterdam on both March 12-13. You can register for the symposium here.

• The latest edition of The Journey Newsletter is now available. This edition includes a look at the latest EUMAEUS publication, the recent open-source governance workshop, the APAC Symposium, and much more. If you aren’t receiving the newsletter each month, you can subscribe here.

OPENINGS

The Bouvé College of Health Sciences and The Roux Institute at Northeastern University seek candidates for two tenure-track Assistant Professor positions in the emerging area of health/healthcare data science. The successful candidate will have primary responsibility for working with the OHDSI Center at the Roux Institute, focusing on education, research and community support of the global Open Source OHDSI initiative. For more information, please reach out to Brianne Olivieri-Mui, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Sciences, at B.mui@northeastern.edu.

The Botnar Research Centre, NDORMS, University of Oxford seeks two Postdoctoral Data Scientists to join a Pharmaco- and Device epidemiology research group led by Professor Daniel Prieto-Alhambra. Full details on this position, including all responsibilities, are available here. The deadline is THIS FRIDAY, Dec. 17, 2021.

The #OHDSISocialShowcase continues this week, as we highlight all the global research presented at the OHDSI Symposium. Here is a look at the research being shared this week on Twitter and LinkedIn; please check them out and share with your own networks!
Monday: Establishing a large COVID-19 cohort through mapping the Information System for Research in Primary Care (SIDIAP) in Catalonia to the OMOP Common Data Model

Tuesday: Large Scale Dissemination of OHDSI Methods and Tools: Introducing a New Community Resource, the OHDSI Center at the Roux Institute at Northeastern University

Wednesday: Evaluating automated selection of outcome negative controls for estimating the total error distribution of self-controlled cohort study designs

Thursday: Estimating Model Performance on External Datasets from Their Limited Statistical Characteristics: Application to 3-Year Surgery Risk in Ulcerative Colitis

Friday: Big Data Methods for Real World Data: A Simulation Study to Assess Suitability of Machine Learning Methods to Account for Confounding Under Various Treatment and Outcome Prevalence Scenarios

Work groups listed on the OHDSI website: To get a snapshot of the work group meetings for the month, please visit Upcoming Working Group Calls – OHDSI

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**you can also find the document on our website ohdsi.org under “Collaborate with OHDSI in MS Teams.”

Please continue to collaborate in our MS Teams environment, check out the OHDSI website and forums, and follow us on all platforms, including Twitter and LinkedIn to get continued updates and information on everything happening in our community