WEEKLY MEETINGS
Please join us Tuesday, May 11 (11 am ET) for our next community call, which will feature two debates surrounding our efforts to efficiently and reliably generate robust real-world evidence across multiple data sources. The topics and debaters will be:
Debate 1: Observational studies are best conducted as a distributed network analysis and not a centralized data repository. (Debaters: Kristin Kostka and Andrew Williams)
Debate 2: It is more important to keep OHDSI standardized vocabularies up-to-date in content through a continuous release lifecycle than to align the OHDSI network on a common vocabulary version. (Debaters: Christian Reich and Peter Rijnbeek)
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
GIS-Geographic Information System WG Meeting: Monday, May 10 at 10 am ET: (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Monday at 10 am ET.
OMOP CDM Oncology WG – Genomic Subgroup Meeting: Tuesday, May 11 at 9 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Tuesday at 9 am ET.
OMOP CDM Oncology WG – Development Subgroup Meeting: Wednesday, May 12 at 10 am ET: (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Wednesday at 10 am ET.
Natural Language Processing WG: Wednesday, May 12 at 2 pm ET ( Meeting Link )
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the second Wednesday of each month at 2 pm ET.
Early Stage Researchers WG:( East Coast /West Coast/Asia hemisphere): Wednesday, May 12 at 4pm GMT+9 time: (Meeting Link) Meetings are traditionally due to be held on the second Wednesday of each month at 4pm GMT time.
Psychiatry WG: Thursday, May 13 at 8 am ET: (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Thursday at 8 am ET.
OMOP CDM Oncology WG – CDM/Vocabulary Subgroup Meeting: Thursday, May 13 at 1 pm ET: (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Thursday at 1 pm ET.
China Chapter WG: Friday, May 14 at 10 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the second Friday of each month at 10 am ET. Note: this meeting does not take place in MS Teams.
Clinical Trials WG: Friday, May 14 at 10 am ET: (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Friday at 10 am ET.
Electronic Health Record WG: Friday, May 14 at 10 am ET: (Meeting Link) THIS MEETING WILL JOIN WITH CLINICAL TRIALS ABOVE
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Friday at 10 am ET.
Phenotype Development and Evaluation WG: Friday, May 14 at 1pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the second and fourth Fridays of each month at 1 pm ET.
OHDSI SHOUTOUTS
Congratulations to the team of R P Vogelsang, R D Bojesen, E R Hoelmich, A Orhan, F Buzquurz, L Cai, C Grube, J A Zahid, E Allakhverdiiev, H H Raskov, I Drakos, N Derian, P B Ryan, P R Rijnbeek, I Gögenur for the study “Prediction of 90-day mortality after surgery for colorectal cancer using standardized nationwide quality-assurance data” published recently by BJS Open.
OHDSI UPDATES
Registration for the 2021 Global OHDSI Symposium is open! To register for the 2021 Global OHDSI Symposium, please click here
Sponsorship: All OHDSI activities depend largely on government grants and organization sponsorships; please email symposium@ohdsi.org if you would like to consider sponsorship opportunities for this year’s symposium
We are just over one month away from the June 18 deadline for submissions [for the 2021 Collaborator Showcase](https://www.ohdsi.org/2021-collaborator-showcase/). We are accepting submissions for posters, oral presentations and software demos. We will share more information during the May 18 community call, or you can use this link to learn more.
Call for Collaboration: Seng Chan You is seeking collaborators to join in the following OHDSI Network Study: CEEAMOS (Comparative Estimation of the Effects of Anti-hypertensive Medications on the Occurrence of Schizophrenia). More information, as well as the link to the study package, is available on this forum post.
The second seminar from the CBER Best Initiative Series, which featured Ben Goldstein’s discussion on “Understanding Informed Presence in Electronic Health Records Data,” was held last Wednesday. If you missed it, or want to watch it again, the recording is available here.
EHDEN’s 4th open call for data partners will conclude this Thursday, May 13, at 17:00 CET. If you have any questions about the project, Jenny Lane provided a presentation that is now available on the EHDEN web site.
We had a terrific APAC Community Call last week. Anton van der Vegt discussed the Australian real-world research infrastructure pilot, while Mui Van Zandt presented on OHDSI CDM 5.4 changes. Next week’s call is scheduled to focus on 10-minute tutorials, and all past recordings are available on our APAC homepage on OHDSI.org.
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 : To join OHDSI Teams, 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 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.
