WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING
Please join our April 15 community call (11 am ET) for a session focused on the HADES TreatmentPatterns package. The tool both develops and analyzes treatment patterns, and it can formally define and implement the process of constructing treatment pathways. Learn more about this tool from this publication. We are happy to welcome Maarten van Kessel, a software developer at Erasmus MC, to lead this session.
Everybody is invited. If you do not have a calendar invite, 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 Shahin Hallaj, William Halfpenny, Niloofar Radgoudarzi, Michael V Boland, Swarup S Swaminathan, Sophia Y Wang, Benjamin Y Xu, Dilru C Amarasekera, Brian Stagg, Aiyin Chen, Michelle Hribar, Kaveri A Thakoor, Kerry E Goetz, Jonathan S Myers, Aaron Y Lee, Mark A Christopher, Linda M Zangwill, Robert N Weinreb, and Sally L Baxter on the recent publication of Gap Analysis of Standard Automated Perimetry Concept Representation in Medical Terminologies in the Journal of Glaucoma.
• Congratulations to the team of Elisa Henke, Stephan Lorenz, Michele Zoch, Martin Sedlmayr, and Yuan Peng on the recent publication of Mapping National Vocabularies to International Standards Using OHDSI Standardized Vocabularies in Volume 323 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics.
• Congratulations to the team of Yuan Peng, Elisa Henke, and Martin Sedlmayr on the recent publication of From Heterogeneity to Uniformity: A Metadata-Driven ETL Process for Transforming FHIR Data into OMOP CDM in Volume 323 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics.
OHDSI UPDATES
The submission deadline for the 2025 Collaborator Showcase is July 1. The showcase will be accepting both posters and software demos, as well as interest in hosting lightning talks. More information on the symposium, including abstract submission and registration links, will be available soon.
• Our fourth annual DevCon will be held Friday, April 25, from 9 am – 2 pm ET. This virtual session continues to connect our global open-source community so that we can learn about recent updates and discuss ways to continue enhancing the future of OHDSI open-source software.
• The Columbia OHDSI Summer School, which will be held July 14-18 at Columbia University, provides health professionals, researchers, and industry practitioners with an immersive, hands-on training to working with real-world health data and generating real-world evidence (RWE). Participants will explore the types of healthcare data captured during routine clinical care—such as electronic health records and administrative claims—and learn how to standardize these data using the OMOP Common Data Model to support collaborative, distributed research as part of a data network. Registration is now open and will be capped at 30 people.
• Christian Reich and Sarah Seager are leading an effort to publish a second edition of the Book of OHDSI, which will include updates to previous text and new paragraphs/chapters. This work is taking place within the Education workgroup; if you would like to join this effort, please sign up here.
Save The Dates
• The OHDSI Global Symposium will be held Oct. 7-9 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Agenda and registration information will be shared when available.
• Registration is open for the Europe Symposium, which will be held July 5-7 in the “Old Prison” building of Hasselt University in Hasselt, Belgium.
OHDSI Social Showcase
• Research from the 2024 Global Symposium Collaborator Showcase is also being shared daily on OHDSI’s LinkedIn, Twitter/X and Instagram feeds as part of the #OHDSISocialShowcase. Below are posters (with study leads) that are featured this week:
Monday — Classification of RxNorm and RxNorm Extension Vaccine-related Terms in the Vaccine Ontology (Jie Zheng, Xingxian Li)
Tuesday — Common Data Elements for Maternal Health Research: An OMOP-CDM Concept Mapping Study (Andreea Creanga)
Wednesday — Design of Feedback Reports for Evaluating Data Fitness for Use in the Bridge2AI For Clinical Care Research Consortium (Jared Houghtaling)
Thursday — OHDSI in Africa and Partnerships with European Institutions (Cynthia Sung)
Friday — Comorbidities among patients with Severe Maternal Morbidity: A comparison of conditions identified through active hospital-based surveillance versus OMOP CDM (Carrie Wolfson)
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