Weekly OHDSI Digest-February 15, 2021

WEEKLY MEETINGS

Weekly Community Call:
This week’s OHDSI Community Call will focus on the European Health Data & Evidence Network (EHDEN). You can expect to hear about all about this exciting partner of the OHDSI community, including its growing data network, the EHDEN Academy, 2021 goals and plenty more from EHDEN leaders Peter Rijnbeek and Nigel Hughes.

As you may have noticed last week, we are continuing to test different methods for setting up and inviting to this meeting. This week, you will need the specific meeting link to access the community call. 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.

Thanks to everybody who joined last week’s call, where we tried to help newcomers begin their OHDSI journey. There were several questions we couldn’t get during the Q&A session, so those have been answered in this forum post. Links to the video tours of OHDSI.org, our Teams environment, and more are also available there.

WEEKLY WORKING GROUP CALLS

OMOP CDM Oncology WG – Genomic Subgroup Meeting: Tuesday, Feb 16. at 9 am ET
THIS MEETING IS CANCELLED FOR FEB. 16 (Meeting Link)

Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Tuesday at 9 am ET.

Common Data Model WG: Tuesday, Feb. 16 at 1 pm ET: (Meeting Link )
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the first and third Tuesdays of each month at 1 pm ET.

Women of OHDSI WG: Tuesday, Feb. 16 at 2 pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the third Tuesday of each month at 2 pm ET.

OMOP CDM Oncology WG – Outreach/Research Subgroup Meeting: Tuesday, Feb. 16 at 3 pm ET: (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the first and third Tuesday of each month at 3 pm ET.

OMOP CDM Oncology WG – Development Subgroup Meeting: Wednesday, Feb. 17 at 10 am ET: (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Wednesday at 10 am ET.

OMOP CDM Oncology WG – CDM/Vocabulary Subgroup Meeting: Thursday, Feb. 18 at 1 pm ET: (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Thursday at 1 pm ET.

Data Quality Dashboard Development WG: Wednesday, Feb. 17 at 1 pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the third Wednesday of each month at 1 pm ET.

GIS-Geographic Information System WG Meeting: Wednesday, Feb. 17 at 2 pm ET: (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Wednesday at 2 pm ET.

Psychiatry WG: Thursday, Feb. 18 at 8 am ET: (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Thursday at 8 am ET.

HADES WG: Thursday, Feb. 18 at 12 pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the third Thursday of each month at 12 pm ET.

Clinical Trials WG: Friday, Feb. 19 at 10 am ET: (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Friday at 10 am ET.

Electronic Health Record WG: Friday, Feb. 19 at 10 am ET: (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Friday at 10 am ET.

UK BioBank WG: Friday, Feb. 19 at 3 pm GMT (10AM ET) (Meeting Link )
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the third Friday of each month at 3 pm GMT. Note: this is a new meeting link that takes places in Teams.

Pharmacovigilance Evidence Investigation (PEI) WG: Monday, Feb.22 at 11:30 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the last Monday of each month at 11:30am ET.

OHDSI SHOUTOUTS

Congratulations to the team of Yeonchan Seong, Seng Chan You, Anna Ostropolets, Yeunsook Rho, Jimyung Park, Jaehyeong Cho, Dmitry Dymshyts, Christian G. Reich, Yunjung Heo, and Rae Woong Park for this study: Incorporation of Korean Electronic Data Interchange Vocabulary into Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership Vocabulary, published in Healthcare Informatics Research.

Also, congratulations to the team of Anna Ostropolets, Pierre A. Elias, Michael V. Reyes, Elaine Y. Wan, Utpal B. Pajvani, George Hripcsak, and John P. Morrow for this study: Metformin Is Associated with a Lower Risk of Atrial Fibrillation and Ventricular Arrhythmias Compared to Sulfonylureas: An Observational Study, published in Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology.

MORE OHDSI UPDATES

2021 OHDSI SYMPOSIUM:
We are excited to announce that the 2021 OHDSI Symposium dates will be September 12-15, 2021. Please hold the date and stay tuned for more information and updates as we plan for another rewarding symposium!

Deadlines:
• Deadline for abstracts for ICPE 2021 has passed, but scholarship applications are accepted until March 1 . More information is available here.

• Drug Safety invites the submission of original research articles (up to 6000 words) on the Role of Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning in Pharmacovigilance for a themed issue of the journal to be published in 2021. Please submit an abstract describing your proposed paper by April 30 to nitin.joshi@springer.com. Full papers will be invited by May 30 and manuscripts due by August 31 . More information is available here.

Work groups listed on the OHDSI website: OHDSI work groups and meeting links have been added to our website and the page is updated on Mondays. To get a snapshot of the work group meetings for the month, please visit Upcoming Working Group Calls – OHDSI

Accessing MSTeams : OHDSI work group meetings have transitioned to MSTeams. If you attended the 2020 OHDSI Symposium, you are already in the OHDSI teams environment. If you would like to be added to the OHDSI teams environment, please fill out this form: Join OHDSI Teams

If you are already in the OHDSI teams environment and you would like to join work groups in teams, please fill out this form: Join Workgroups, Chapters, and Studies

Teams Best Practices and Guidance: For some guidance on MS Teams, please log into OHDSI Teams and check out this channel located in the OHDSI Team Teams Best Practices and Guidance
**you can also find the document on our website ohdsi.org under “Collaborate with OHDSI in MS Teams.”

2020 OHDSI Symposium: To access the 2020 OHDSI Symposium on our website, please click: 2020 OHDSI Global Symposium – OHDSI

2020 APAC Symposium : to access the 2020 APAC Symposium, please click here:
2020 OHDSI APAC Symposium – OHDSI

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.