WEEKLY MEETINGS
Weekly Community Call:
Join us for the next OHDSI Community Call (Tuesday, March 16, 11 am ET) for a trio of research presentations on advances in patient-level prediction .
• Jenna Reps will present “Best Practices for Prediction Using Observational Data”
• Henrik John will present “External Validation of Existing Dementia Prediction Models on Observational Health Data”
• Ross Williams will present “The Prediction Model Library”
(Please note that the U.S. observed daylight saving this past weekend, so please check the meeting time if you live elsewhere!)
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, March 16 at 9 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Tuesday at 9 am ET.
Common Data Model WG: Tuesday, March 16 at 1 pm ET: (Meeting Link )
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the first and third Tuesdays of each month at 1 pm ET.
Women of OHDSI WG: Tuesday, March 16 at 2 pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the third Tuesday of each month at 2 pm ET.
OMOP CDM Oncology WG – Outreach/Research Subgroup Meeting: Tuesday, March 16 at 3 pm ET: (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the first and third Tuesday of each month at 3 pm ET.
OMOP CDM Oncology WG – Development Subgroup Meeting: Wednesday, March 17 at 10 am ET: (Meeting Link) Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Wednesday at 10 am ET.
Data Quality Dashboard Development WG: Wednesday, March 17 at 1 pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the third Wednesday of each month at 1 pm ET.
GIS-Geographic Information System WG Meeting: Wednesday, March 17 at 2 pm ET: (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Wednesday at 2 pm ET.
Psychiatry WG: Thursday, March 18 at 8 am ET: (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Thursday at 8 am ET.
HADES WG: Thursday, March 18 at 12 pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the third Thursday of each month at 12 pm ET.
OMOP CDM Oncology WG – CDM/Vocabulary Subgroup Meeting: Thursday, March 18 at 1 pm ET: (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Thursday at 1 pm ET.
Clinical Trials WG: Friday, March 19 at 10 am ET: (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Friday at 10 am ET.
Electronic Health Record WG: Friday, March 19 at 10 am ET: (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Friday at 10 am ET.
UK BioBank WG: Friday, March 19 at 3 pm GMT (10AM ET) (Meeting Link )
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the third Friday of each month at 3 pm GMT.
OHDSI SHOUTOUTS
Congratulations to Alison Callahan, Vladimir Polony, José Posada, Juan Banda, Saurabh Gombar, and Nigam Shah on publication of the study “ACE: the Advanced Cohort Engine for searching longitudinal patient records” in JAMIA.
Two leaders in the OHDSI community recently achieved professional milestones. Hua Xu , who leads our NLP and China workgroups, was recently named Associate Dean for Innovation at UTHealth, while Seng Chan You, a leader in our Asia-Pacific community, recently started a new position as Research Assistant Professor in Severance Hospital in Seoul, South Korea. Congratulations to both Hua and Chan!
Chan announced that the Yonsei University Hospital System will join OHDSI as an active collaborator as part of the most recent OHDSI collaborator spotlight. In this Q&A, Chan also discusses his new role, OHDSI’s growth in the Asia-Pacific region, leading the COVID-19 data sharing efforts, and plenty more.
MORE OHDSI UPDATES
The OHDSI APAC webpage is now live: https://www.ohdsi.org/apac/. This page will include recordings from all APAC community calls, which are held bi-weekly on Wednesday at 10 pm ET. It also includes information about upcoming calls, the different APAC regional chapters, how to engage with the APAC community, and more.
The Pioneer/EHDEN/OHDSI study-a-thon was a terrific success last week, with more than 200 participants joining the important effort. We look forward to having representatives from the study-a-thon present on the research and findings in a future community call!
EHDEN opened its third open call for SMEs to apply for training and certification to convert health data from various forms to the OMOP common data model. This call will run from March 15 through April 12. EHDEN currently has 26 SMEs to support mapping and sustainability for a network currently including 60 data partners (there will be two more data partner calls in 2021). Check out this recent update on EHDEN, which came from a February community call presentation.
The OHDSI March Visualization Challenge is underway, and we already have a handful of entries. Please check out the channel within the general OHDSI page for full instructions, and to see a few of the early posts that highlight a visualization using OHDSI tools/data/results that tells the most compelling story touching on the COVID pandemic.
2021 OHDSI Symposium:
Please remember to hold the dates September 12-15, 2021 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 : If you attended the 2020 OHDSI Symposium, you are already in the OHDSI teams environment. If you would like to be added to the OHDSI teams environment, 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 some 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.
