WEEKLY MEETINGS
Please join us Tuesday, Nov. 30 (11 am ET) for our next OHDSI community call, when the OHDSI 2021 Global Symposium Best Community Contribution Award recipients present their research. The winning showcase submissions, as voted on by the community, and presenters can be found below:
• Extending the OMOP CDM to store the output of natural language processing pipelines (Alberto Labarga)
• The concept of anchoring in observational study design and its influence (Anna Ostropolets)
• Gold or Lead? Adjudicating Differences between CDM Data and Chart Reviews (Kimberley Dickinson)
• Competing risk regression models in cohort studies with the R package Cohort Method (Kelli Li)
• Detecting PTSD and self-harm among US Veterans using positive unlabeled Learning (Christophe Lambert)
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, Nov. 30 at 9 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Tuesday at 9 am ET
Health Equity WG: Tuesday, Nov. 30 at 2 pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Tuesday at 2 pm ET.
Medical Imaging WG: Wednesday, Dec 1 at 7 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Wednesday alternating between 7am and 7 pm ET.
FHIR and OMOP WG- Digital Quality Measurements Subgroup: Wed. Dec 1 at 10am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Wednesday at 10 am ET. NOTE: This meeting takes place on Zoom but please check the Teams Work Group for information and updates Zoom Details: Meeting ID: 836 4585 6405 Passcode: 552204
OMOP CDM Oncology WG – Development Subgroup Meeting: Wednesday, Dec. 1 at 10 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Wednesday at 10 am ET.
Patient-Level Preiction/Pop. Level Estimation WG Meeting (Eastern Hemi): Wednesday, Dec. 1 at 4 pm KST (2AM ET) (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the first Wednesday of every month at 4 pm KST.
Patient-Level Prediction/Pop. Level Estimation WG Meeting (Western Hemi): Thursday, Dec. 2 at 12 pm ET (Meeting Link) Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the first Thursday of every month at 12 pm ET.
OMOP CDM Oncology WG – CDM/Vocabulary Subgroup Meeting: Thursday, Dec. 2 at 1 pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Thursday at 1 pm ET
Education WG: Friday, Dec. 3 at 9 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every four weeks on Friday at 9 am ET.
Vaccine Vocabulary WG: Friday, Dec. 3 at 9 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Friday at 9am ET.
Electronic Health Record WG: Monday, Dec. 6 at 10 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Monday at 10 am ET. (PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A REVISED MEETING DAY)
OHDSI SHOUTOUTS
Congratulations to the team of Xintong Li, Lana YH Lai, Anna Ostropolets, Faaizah Arshad, Eng Hooi Tan, Paula Casajust, Thamir M. Alshammari, Talita Duarte-Salles, Evan P. Minty, Carlos Areia, Nicole Pratt, Patrick B. Ryan, George Hripcsak, Marc A. Suchard, Martijn J. Schuemie and Daniel Prieto-Alhambra on the publication of “Bias, Precision and Timeliness of Historical (Background) Rate Comparison Methods for Vaccine Safety Monitoring: An Empirical Multi-Database Analysis” in Frontiers in Pharmacology. There was an OHDSI press release on this study, which you can read here.
OHDSI UPDATES
The next edition of the CBER Best Seminar Series will be this Wednesday, Dec. 1, at 11 am. Heather Whitaker, a senior statistician at UK Health Security Agency (formerly Public Health England), will provide a presentation on “Vaccine safety evaluation using the self-controlled case series method.” You can register for this talk now.
The #OHDSISocialShowcase continues this week, as we highlight all the global research presented at the OHDSI Symposium. Here is a look at the research being shared this week on Twitter and LinkedIn; please check them out and share with your own networks!
Monday: Bridging communities: Transforming MIMIC-IV to the OMOP CDM
Wednesday: Conversion of UK Biobank into the OMOP CDM: New Data for Inferences Between Episodic Care
Thursday: Criteria2Query 2.0: An Editable User Interface for Human-Machine Collaboration in Cohort Definition
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**you can also find the document on our website ohdsi.org under “Collaborate with OHDSI in MS Teams.”
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