Weekly OHDSI Digest-July 5, 2021

WEEKLY MEETINGS

Please join us Tuesday, July 6 (11 am ET) for a “Meet + Greet” OHDSI Community Call, when collaborators can introduce themselves and share about their background, how they hope to contribute to the community, and how OHDSI can support them on their journey.

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 CALLS

OMOP CDM Oncology WG – Genomic Subgroup Meeting: Tuesday, July 6 at 9 am ET (Meeting Link) MEETING IS CANCELLED
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Tuesday at 9 am ET.

Common Data Model WG: Tuesday, July 6 at 1 pm ET: (Meeting Link )
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the first and third Tuesdays of each month at 1 pm ET.

OMOP CDM Oncology WG – Outreach/Research Subgroup Meeting: Tuesday, July 6 at 3 pm ET: (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the first and third Tuesday of each month at 3 pm ET.

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

OMOP CDM Oncology WG – CDM/Vocabulary Subgroup Meeting: Thursday, July 8 at 1 pm ET: (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Thursday at 1 pm ET.

China Chapter WG: Friday, July 9 at 10 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the second Friday of each month at 10 am ET. Note: this meeting does not take place in MS Teams.

Clinical Trials WG: Friday, July 9 at 10 am ET: (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Friday at 10 am ET.

Electronic Health Record WG: Friday, July 9 at 10 am ET: (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Friday at 10 am ET.

Phenotype Development and Evaluation WG: Friday, July 9 at 1pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the second and fourth Fridays of each month at 1 pm ET.

OHDSI SHOUTOUTS

Congratulations to the team of Christophe Gaudet-Blavignac, Jean Louis, Vasundra Touré, Sabine Österle, Katrin Crameri, and Christian Lovis on the recent study “A National, Semantic-Driven, Three-Pillar Strategy to Enable Health Data Secondary Usage Interoperability for Research Within the Swiss Personalized Health Network: Methodological Study” recently published in JMIR Medical Informatics.

Congratulations to the team of João Rafael Almeida, João Figueira Silva, Sérgio Matos, and José Luís Oliveira on the study “A Two-Stage Workflow to Extract and Harmonize Drug Mentions from Clinical Notes into Observational Databases” published last week in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics.

OHDSI UPDATES

There will be a HADES Unit-Test-A-Thon held July 14-16, which aims to increase the coverage of all HADES packages to above 80%. If you have R experience, this is a great opportunity for you to improve the reliability of HADES tools (which are critical to our community success), learn more about OHDSI software and have fun with collaborators around the world. There is more information on this forum post. If you would like to take part in this activity, please fill out this form.

The latest edition of the OHDSI newsletter is now available, and it includes information on OHDSI work around vaccine surveillance and health equity, as well as more updates around our community and links to recent publications and presentations. If you aren’t receiving our monthly newsletter, please subscribe here.

The next edition of the CBER BEST Initiative Seminar Series will be this Wednesday, July 28, at 11 am. Jessica Gronsbell (University of Toronto) will present a talk on “Statistical learning with electronic health records data.” The seminar series is open to everybody. More information and a registration link is available here.

Registration for the 2021 Global OHDSI Symposium is open! To register for the 2021 Global OHDSI Symposium, please click here

Sponsorship: All OHDSI activities depend largely on government grants and organization sponsorships; please email symposium@ohdsi.org if you would like to consider sponsorship opportunities for this year’s symposium

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

Accessing MSTeams: To join OHDSI Teams, 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 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.”

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.