Weekly OHDSI Digest – November 25, 2024

WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING

Please join our Nov. 26 (11 am ET) community call for a session focused on our OHDSI2024 Collaborator Showcase honorees. Following the 2024 Global Symposium, five posters or demos were selected as Best Community Contribution honorees, and the leads of each will join our next community call to present their research. The posters and presenters can be seen below:

Observational Data Standards and Management : Gap Analysis of Static Automated Perimetry Concept Representation in OMOP CDM (Shahin Hallaj)

Methodological Research: Towards automated phenotype definition extraction using large language models (Ramya Tekumalla)

Open-Source Analytics Development: Bridging the Language Gap: Generative Models for Efficient Medical Concept Discovery (Alvaro Alvarez)

Clinical Applications: Health Trends Across Communities in Minnesota: a Statewide Dashboard Leveraging the OMOP CDM to Monitor the Prevalence of Health Conditions (Samuel Patnoe)

Community: Improving Team Science Through “Thons” Reflections on the April Olympians Community Event (Clair Blacketer)

Everybody is invited. Calendar invites went out last week. If you did not receive one, please use this link to join the meeting. All recordings from these weekly calls are available within our Teams environment and will be posted on both our YouTube page and our OHDSI.org Community Calls page.

WEEKLY WORKING GROUP MEETINGS

Upcoming Workgroup Calls – OHDSI

OHDSI SHOUTOUTS

• Congratulations to the team of George Datseris and Jacob Zelko on the publication of Physiological signal analysis and open science using the Julia language and associated software in Frontiers in Network Physiology.

• Congratulations to the team of Aurora Quaye, John DiPalazzo, Kristin Kostka, Janelle M Richard, Blaire Beers-Mulroy, Meredith Peck, Robert Krulee, and Yi Zhang on the publication of Identifying factors associated with persistent opioid use after total joint arthroplasty: A retrospective review in Pain Medicine.

• Congratulations to the team of Haeun Lee, Seok Kim, Hui-Woun Moon, Ho-Young Lee, Kwangsoo Kim, Se Young Jung, and Sooyoung Yoo on the publication of Hospital Length of Stay Prediction for Planned Admissions Using Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership Common Data Model: Retrospective Study in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.

• Congratulations to the team of Milla Kurtz, Alfred Winter, and Matthias Löbe on the publication of Suitability of the OMOP Common Data Model for Mapping Datasets of Medical Research Studies Using the Example of a Multicenter Registry in Volume 321 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics.

OHDSI UPDATES

• The latest edition of “Our Journey: Where the OHDSI Community Has Been, and Where We Are Going” was distributed at the Global Symposium, and the online version is available on the OHDSI website.

• The 2024 OHDSI Asia-Pacific (APAC) Symposium will be held December 4-8 in Singapore. Regional co-chairs Mengling ‘Mornin’ Feng and Ngial Kee Yuan will lead this event, which has a theme of “When OHDSI Meets with AI.” Registration is open!

• All videos and slides from the main conference of the 2024 OHDSI Global Symposium are now available on the event homepage. You can also find the 136 posters and software demos from our collaborator showcase. The tutorials will be posted to the homepage when available.

OHDSI Social Showcase

• Research from the 2024 Global Symposium Collaborator Showcase is also being shared daily on OHDSI’s LinkedInTwitter/X and Instagram feeds as part of the #OHDSISocialShowcase. Below are posters (with study leads) that are featured this week:

Monday — Expanding the OMOP Common Data Model to support Extracorporeal Life Support research (Clemens Reider)

Tuesday — Causal Learning with Large-Scale Propensity Scores to Predict Treatment Outcomes: A Study of Arrhythmia in Adolescents with Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (Junhyuk Chang)

Wednesday — Predicting outcome in emergency room patients with suspected gastrointestinal infection using OMOP-CDM (So Hee Lee)

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