Weekly OHDSI Digest- January 24, 2022

WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETINGS

Please join us Tuesday, Jan. 25 (11 am) for our next OHDSI Community Call, which will feature a presentation on “Extracting OHDSI Concepts from Clinical Narratives for COVID.” We are excited to have both Dr. Hongfang Liu (Mayo Clinic) and Dr. Christopher Chute (Johns Hopkins University) lead this session.

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

OMOP CDM Oncology WG – Genomic Subgroup Meeting: Tuesday, Jan 25 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)

Data Quality Dashboard Development WG: Tuesday, Jan. 25 at 10 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the third Wednesday of each month at 10 am ET THIS IS A REVISED MEETING TIME

Common Data Model WG – Vocabulary Subgroup: Tuesday, Jan. 25 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, January 25 at 2pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Tuesday at 2pm ET.

Medical Imaging WG: Wednesday, Jan. 26 at 7 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Wednesday alternating between 7am and 7 pm ET.

OMOP CDM Oncology WG – Development Subgroup Meeting: Wednesday, Jan. 26 at 10 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Wednesday at 10 am ET THIS MEETING IS CANCELLED

Latin America WG: Wednesday, Jan. 26 at 11:30 am Bogota/Lima/Quito time (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the fourth Wednesday of each month at 11:30 am Bogota/Lima/Quito time (NOTE THIS IS A REVISED MEETING SCHEDULE)

FHIR and OMOP WG-Terminologies Subgroup: Meeting: Wednesday, Jan. 26 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)

Medical Devices WG: Thursday, Jan. 27 at 10 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the fourth Thursday of each odd month at 11 am ET.

OMOP CDM Oncology WG – CDM/Vocabulary Subgroup Meeting: Thursday, Jan. 27 at 1 pm ET ( Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Thursday at 1 pm ET THIS MEETING IS CANCELLED

Phenotype Development and Evaluation WG: Friday, Jan. 28 at 10am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the second and fourth Fridays of each month at 10 am ET.

Healthcare Systems Interest Group (formerly Electronic Health Record WG): Monday, Jan. 31 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)

OHDSI SHOUTOUTS

Congratulations to co-authors ChulHyoung Park, Seng Chan You, Hokyun Jeon, Chang Won Jeong, Jin Wook Choi, and Rae Woong Park on the publication of “Development and Validation of the Radiology Common Data Model (R-CDM) for the International Standardization of Medical Imaging Data” which was recently published in the Yonsei Medical Journal.

Congratulations to co-authors Xiangmin Ji, Guimei Cui, Chengzhen Xu, Jie Hou, Yunfei Zhang, and Yan Ren on the publication of “Combining a Pharmacological Network Model with a Bayesian Signal Detection Algorithm to Improve the Detection of Adverse Drug Events” recently in Frontiers in Pharmacology.

Our friends in the EHDEN Project recently highlighted its many successes over the first three years of its five-year project, including harmonizing more than 500 million health records across 27 countries, developing 14 courses (and counting) in the EHDEN Academy, and plenty more. You can read that report here.

OHDSI UPDATES

The 2022 OHDSI European Symposium, which will be held at the Steam Ship Rotterdam in The Netherlands, has been moved to the new date of 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.

Our Janssen collaborators recently announced an opening for two summer interns for its 2022 Observational Health Data Analytics Internship Program. Learn more about this opportunity and apply using that link.

The #OHDSISocialShowcase continues on Wednesday 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: The VISIT_DETAIL: A Vehicle for Standard Visits

Tuesday: Leveraging APHRODITE to identify bias in statistical phenotyping algorithms

Wednesday: From type 2 diabetes diagnosis to developing complications: a multi-country approach to understanding patients journey

Thursday: Distributed Counterfactual Modeling Approach for Investigating Hospital-Associated Racial Disparities in COVID-19 Mortality

Friday: Design of a framework to detect temporal clinical event trajectories from health data standardized to the OMOP CDM

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.”

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