Weekly OHDSI Digest-March 7, 2022

WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETINGS

Please join us Tuesday, March 8 (11 am ET) for our next OHDSI community call, which will be Part 1 of our two-week OMOP CDM Workshop. We are excited to have four representatives from our Common Data Model Workgroup lead this session:

• Clair Blacketer, Associate Director, Janssen Research & Development

• Frank DeFalco, Director, Observational Health Data Analytics, Janssen Research & Development

• Kristin Kostka, Director of the OHDSI Center, Roux Institute, Northeastern University

• Maxim Moinat , Data Engineer/Software Developer, The Hyve

Everybody is invited. Calendar invites for our 2022 community calls go out each Friday. 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, March 8 at 9 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month at 9 am ET

Common Data Model WG – VOCABULARY Subgroup: Tuesday, March 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, March 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, March 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, March 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, March 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, March 10 at 10 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Thursday at 10 am ET

OMOP CDM Oncology- Vocabulary Subgroup: Thursday, March 10 at 1 pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Thursday at 1 pm ET

Phenotype Development and Evaluation WG: Friday, March 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, March 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, March 14 at 10 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Monday at 10 am ET.

Early-Stage Researchers WG: ( Europe /East Coast /West Coast hemisphere): Monday, March 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

The 2022 OHDSI Symposium will be held Oct. 14-16 at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center in Bethesda, Md. The main symposium will be held Friday, Oct. 14, while the next two days will include community activities. More information about the weekend, including registration and the collaborator showcase, will be shared when available.

The latest edition of The Journey newsletter is now available(Phenotype Phebruary, DARWIN EU & More • OHDSI Newsletter). This edition includes a full review of Phenotype Phebruary, a look at the DARWIN EU announcement by the European Medicines Agency, publications and presentations, and much more. If you don’t get The Journey in your email, please subscribe here.

2021 OHDSI Titan Award winner Maxim Moinat was profiled in our latest Collaborator Spotlight. Learn more about Maxim’s background, his work with open-source tools, EHDEN, the upcoming DARWIN EU initiative, and much more.

The next CBER BEST Seminar will be held Wednesday, April 27, at 11 am ET.Eric Tchetgen (Luddy Family President’s Distinguished Professor, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania) will present his work on “Addressing Selection and Confounding Bias in Test-Negative Study Designs for Flu and COVID-19 Monitoring.” You can register for this seminar here.

If you missed Nicole Pratt’s CBER BEST Seminar on “Evaluating Use of Methods for Adverse Event Under Surveillance for Vaccines,” you can watch it now.

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.

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