Weekly OHDSI Digest-February 7, 2022

WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETINGS

Please join us Tuesday, Feb. 8 (11 am ET) for our next OHDSI community call, which will include a trio of presentations:

• Melanie Philofsky will share an update and the 2022 OKRs (Objectives & Key Results) for the Healthcare Systems Special Interest Group (formerly the EHR Workgroup)

• Adam Black will discuss the new Open-Source Community Workgroup and its 2022 OKRs

• Patrick Ryan will provide the first update on Phenotype Phebruary, which you can join in the daily conversations at the OHDSI forums

Everybody is invited. Calendar invites for our 2022 community calls went out two weeks ago. If you did not receive one, please use this link to join the meeting. All recordings from these weekly meetings will be posted on both our main OHDSI Teams tenant and on our OHDSI.org Community Calls page.

WEEKLY WORKING GROUP CALL MEETINGS

Oncology WG on TuesdayFebruary 8, 1-2 pm EST. ( a general meeting to discuss the new WG structure and schedule according to the WG’s OKR.) link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19:239caede18574bc183f75a7a5eb9e826@thread.tacv2/1643577350270?context={“Tid”:”a30f0094-9120-4aab-ba4c-e5509023b2d5″,”Oid”:”e1d469e6-842c-445f-8391-f5ea8581ee27″}

OMOP CDM Oncology WG – Genomic Subgroup Meeting: Tuesday, Feb. 8 at 9 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month at 9 am ET (THIS IS A REVISED MEETING SCHEDULE)

Common Data Model WG – VOCABULARY Subgroup: Tuesday, Feb. 8 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 Work Group: Tuesday, Feb. 8 at 2pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Tuesday at 2pm ET.

FHIR and OMOP WG-Terminologies Subgroup: Meeting: Wednesday, Feb. 9 at 12pm ET (European & Eastern US Time zone participants): (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Wednesday at 12pm ET. NOTE: This meeting takes place on Zoom but please check the Teams Work Group for information and updates (Meeting ID: 685 509 3136 Passcode: 710256)

Natural Language Processing WG: Wednesday, Feb 9 at 2 pm ET ( Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the second Wednesday of each month at 2 pm ET.

Medical Imaging WG: Wednesday, Feb. 9 at 7 pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Wednesday alternating between 7am and 7 pm ET.

Data Quality Dashboard Development WG: Thursday, Feb 10 at 10 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Thursday at 10 am ET THIS IS A REVISED MEETING TIME

Education WG: TBD (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the second Friday of each month at 9 am ET. PLEASE CHECK WITH THE MEETING ORGANIZER FOR A REVISED SCHEDULE

Phenotype Development and Evaluation WG: Friday, Feb.11 at 10am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the second and fourth Fridays of each month at 10 am ET.

China Chapter WG: Friday, Feb 11 at 11 pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the second Friday of each month at 11 pm ET. Note: this meeting does not take place in MS Teams.

Healthcare Systems Interest Group (formerly Electronic Health Record WG): Monday, Feb. 14 at 10 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Monday at 10 am ET. (PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A REVISED MEETING DAY)

Early-Stage Researchers WG: ( Europe /East Coast /West Coast hemisphere): Monday, Feb 14 at 1pm UK time (8am ET) (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally due to be held on the second Monday of each month at 1pm UK time.

OHDSI UPDATES

Phenotype Phebruary has begun, and we have six interactive forum threads ongoing discussing different phenotypes developments & evaluation. Each daily post will be linked on this page on OHDSI.orgPhenotype Phebruary Daily Updates – OHDSI. You can find each phenotype topic and post from the last week below; please check them out and continue the conversations.

Feb. 1 • Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Feb. 2 • Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
Feb. 3 • Atrial Fibrillation
Feb. 4 • Multiple Myeloma
Feb. 5 • Alzheimer’s Disease
Feb. 6 • Hemorrhagic Events

• The February 2022 edition of The Journey newsletter is now available. If you don’t the newsletter in your email, please subscribe here. What will you find in the latest edition of The Journey?

• Community Updates

• Extracting OHDSI Concepts from Clinical Narratives for COVID Presentation

• OHDSI Goals for 2022

• Recent Publications

• MORE!

• Longtime OHDSI collaborator Jon Duke will lead a discussion on saying goodbye to manual registries with the creation of interoperable EHR based clinical registries during the next Grand Rounds at Johns Hopkins, led by Paul Nagy. This leverages the forefront of the OHDSI and FHIR communities committed to open standards and open science. This free session takes place Thursday at 12 pm ET, and you can register here.

• The 2022 OHDSI European Symposium, which will be held at the Steam Ship Rotterdam in The Netherlands, will be held June 24-26. The main symposium will be June 24, and tutorials will be held June 25-26. For more information and the registration link, please visit the symposium homepage.

• 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: Diagnostic Accuracy of Code-Based Algorithms to Identify Urinary Tract Infection in U.S. Administrative Claims Databases

Tuesday: Assessing impact on change in incidence on calibration performance across external validation

Wednesday: A journey through VA’s uptake of the OMOP common data model

Thursday: Medication dosage and exposure duration in OMOP CDM: mapping challenges

Friday: There & Back Again: Using Julia to Augment OHDSI R Packages

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