Please join us Tuesday, April 5 (11 am ET) for our next OHDSI Community Call, when Patrick Ryan leads us in the new game of “Name That Result,” where contestants will be able to showcase all the ways they can get from data to evidence using the OMOP CDM and OHDSI tools. Curious to learn more? Check out Patrick’s forum post on the activity, and how you can join the fun!
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
Common Data Model WG: Tuesday, April 5 at 10am ET (Meeting Link )
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the first and third Tuesdays of each month at 10am and 1pm ET, respectively.
Health Equity Work Group: Tuesday, April 5 at 12pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the first Tuesday of the month at 12pm ET.
Atlas WG: Wednesday, April 6 at 9am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the first Wednesday of each month at 9am ET.
Open-Source Community WG: Wednesday, April 6 at 11am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Wednesday art 11am ET.
GIS-Geographic Information System WG GENERAL Meeting: Wednesday, April 6 at 11am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Wednesday at 11am ET.
FHIR and OMOP WG-Terminologies Subgroup: Meeting: Wednesday, April 6 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)
FHIR and OMOP WG – Data Model Harmonization Subgroup: Wednesday, April 6 at 1pm PST (Western Hemisphere) (Meeting Link) Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the 1st Wednesday of the month at 1pm PST. NOTE: This meeting takes place on Zoom but please check the Teams Work Group for information and updates (Meeting ID: 912 9699 3374 Passcode: 551570)
Patient-Level Prediction/Pop. Level Estimation WG Meeting (Eastern Hemi): Wednesday, April 6 at 4pm KST (2AM ET) (Meeting Link) Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the first Wednesday of every month at 4pm KST. MEETING IS CANCELLED
Medical Imaging WG: Wednesday, April 6 at 7pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Wednesday alternating between 7am and 7pm ET.
Data Quality Dashboard Development WG: Thursday, April 7 at 10am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Thursday at 10am ET MEETING IS CANCELLED
FHIR and OMOP WG-Oncology Subgroup: Thursday, April 7 at 12pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Thursday at 12pm ET NOTE: THIS IS A REVISED SCHEDULE
Patient-Level Prediction/Pop. Level Estimation WG Meeting (Western Hemi): Thursday, April 7 at 12pm ET (Meeting Link) Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the first Thursday of every month at 12pm ET. MEETING IS CANCELLED
OMOP CDM Oncology- Vocabulary Subgroup: Thursday, April 7 at 1pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Thursday at 1pm ET
Phenotype Development and Evaluation WG: Friday, April 8 at 10am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the second and fourth Fridays of each month at 10am ET.
China Chapter WG: Friday, April 8 at 10pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the second Friday of each month at 10pm ET. Note: this meeting does not take place in MS Teams.
Healthcare Systems Interest Group (formerly Electronic Health Record WG): Monday, April 11 at 10am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Monday at 10am ET.
Early-Stage Researchers WG: ( Europe /East Coast /West Coast hemisphere): Monday, April 11 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 SHOUTOUTS
Congratulations to the team of Chongliang Luo, Md Nazmul Islam, Natalie Sheils, John Buresh, Jenna Reps, Martijn Schuemie, Patrick Ryan, Mackenzie Edmondson, Rui Duan, Jiayi Tong, Arielle Marks-Anglin, Jiang Bian, Zhaoyi Chen, Talita Duarte-Salles, Sergio Fernández-Bertolín, Thomas Falconer, Chungsoo Kim, Rae Woong Park, Stephen Pfohl, Nigam Shah, Andrew Williams, Hua Xu, Yujia Zhou, Ebbing Lautenbach, Jalpa Doshi, Rachel Werner, David Asch, and Yong Chen on the publication of DLMM as a lossless one-shot algorithm for collaborative multi-site distributed linear mixed models in Nature Communications.
Congratulations to the team of Seok Kim, Ji-In Bang, Dachung Boo, Borham Kim, In Young Choi, SooJeong Ko, Ie Ryung Yoo, Kwangsoo Kim, Junmo Kim, YoungHwan Joo, Hyun Gee Ryoo, Jin Chul Paeng, Jung Mi Park, Woncheol Jang, Byungwon Kim, Yangha Chung, Dongyoon Yang, Sooyoung Yoo, and Ho-Young Lee on the publication of Second primary malignancy risk in thyroid cancer and matched patients with and without radioiodine therapy analysis from the observational health data sciences and informatics in European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.
OHDSI UPDATES
Both the presentations and slides from the recent community call session on Reproducibility are now available here. This session was led by Anna Ostropolets, Martijn Schemie and Asieh Golozar, and focused on the OHDSI2021 Reproducibility Challenge, how to design reproducible studies, and the Reproducibility Service at the Roux Institute.
• The April edition of the OHDSI Newsletter is now available, and it includes reports on the CDM Workshop, DevCon, and the OHDSI2022 Tutorial, as well as other community updates, links to publications and presentations, and plenty more. If you aren’t already subscribing to the newsletter, you can do so here.
• The Open-Source Community is hosting the first OHDSI Dev Con on April 22 (8 am – 12 pm ET) as a way of accepting and mentoring new contributors to our environment. Organized by Paul Nagy and Adam Black on behalf of the Open-Source Community Workgroup, the event will include multiple workshops, talks and a panel discussion to both welcome and engage both current and future developers within OHDSI. You can register for the event now.
• Registration has opened for the 2022 OHDSI Symposium, which will be held Oct. 14-16 at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center. The main conference will be held Friday, Oct. 14, while a full-day tutorial (An Introductory Journey from Data to Evidence) will be held Saturday, Oct. 15. There will be several workgroup activities between Oct. 15-16 as well. Here are several important links for #OHDSI2021.
Full Symposium: Homepage | Weekend Room Block | FAQs
Oct. 14 – Main Conference: Information | Registration | Collaborator Showcase
Oct. 15 – Tutorial: Information | Registration
• The next CBER BEST Seminar will be held Wednesday, April 27, at 11 am ET. Eric Tchetgen 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.
• 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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