Feb. 17, 2026
The Feb. 17 community call featured a session of workgroup OKRs for 2026 and a mini-journal club session on this recent Lancet publication.
Workgroup OKRs: Finding Your “Home” in OHDSI
With nearly 40 workgroups driving our mission forward, it can be hard to know where to dive in. Over the next few weeks, we are highlighting the Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) for various teams. Whether you are a veteran collaborator or a newcomer, this is the perfect opportunity to align your talents with our 2026 research goals.
Mini-Journal Club: Statin Adverse Events
We will also discuss this recent Lancet publication that examines labeled adverse events for statins.
- The Finding: Of 66 labeled events, the study found that only 4 had significant associations in randomized clinical trials.
- The Impact: This connects to the OHDSI goal of ‘one drug-by-all outcomes’ and potentially motivates the need, both because many labeled events may not be real, but also because some of what has been shown from the trials may not have sufficient statistical power.
Community Updates
• Congratulations to the team of Ryuji Hamamoto, Takafumi Koyama, Satoshi Takahashi, Tomohiro Yasuda, Kazuma Kobayashi, Yu Akagi, Nobuji Kouno, Kazuki Sudo, Makoto Hirata, Kuniko Sunami, Takashi Kubo, Hiroshi Katayama, Atsuo Takashima, Tomonori Taniguchi, Hiromi Matsumoto, Ryota Shibaki, Ken Asada, Masaaki Komatsu, Syuzo Kaneko, Masayoshi Yamada, Hidehito Horinouchi, Katsuya Tanaka, Yasushi Goto, Ken Kato, Yutaka Saito, Kenichi Nakamura & Noboru Yamamoto on the recent publication of Implementing generative artificial intelligence in precision oncology: safety, governance, and significance in the Journal of Hematology & Oncology.
• The Scientific Review Committee serves a critical role in ensuring the quality of our Global Symposium, especially the collaborator showcase. While a sign-up form will go out soon, this forum post includes all the pertinent information.
• Registration is now OPEN for the 2026 Europe Symposium, which will be held April 18-20 in Rotterdam. There were more than 130 submissions to the 2026 Europe Collaborator Showcase. The main conference agenda has been added to the event homepage.
• The 12th annual OHDSI Global Symposium will return to the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, N.J., Oct. 20-22, 2026. All pertinent information will be added to this page when available. Currently, the OHDSI steering group is seeking proposals for both plenaries and tutorials. The deadline for both HAS BEEN EXTENDED to Feb. 20; more details are available on the event homepage.
• The OHDSI community has delayed the fifth edition of Phenotype Phebruary, a month-long global initiative dedicated to advancing the way we build and evaluate clinical phenotypes, until April due to the recent technical obstacles. This year’s event centers on a high-stakes community experiment: a collaborative “Phenotype Challenge” where participants will focus on a single clinical condition. Learn more about the event, along with how you can get involved!
• Konstantin Iaroshovets, in collaboration with the Vocabulary team, recently shared the OHDSI ATHENA User Survey. Please help the team learn what is requested to make Athena better by filling out this brief survey.
• Discover how the OMOP CDM powers global, large-scale health research in this new “bite-sized” video learning pathway, developed in collaboration with Prof. Daniel Prieto-Alhambra’s team at Oxford University. Designed for researchers and data holders, this course explores how a standardized infrastructure enables reproducible, federated analytics while ensuring regulatory compliance.
• Workgroups will play an important role this year in both the OHDSI community and our community calls, starting with OKR announcements during the last two February sessions. Workgroup leads, please fill out this brief form to let us know when you would like to present OKRs and when/if you plan to lead a session about your workgroup.
• There is a new tutorials homepage on OHDSI.org that hosts all tutorials from past Global/US Symposia, including all six tutorials from the recent Global Symposium.
• The latest Our Journey annual report is now on the OHDSI homepage. This 134-page PDF provides an overview of the OHDSI community, including a look at its collaborators and collaborative activities, its research areas and tools, its work with standardized data and vocabularies, and nearly 900 publications that have come from the community.
• Registration is now open for the 2026 Summer School in Observational Health Data Science & Informatics, AI, and Real World Evidence, which will be held June 22-26 at the Columbia University Department of Biomedical Informatics. Now in its second-year, the Columbia OHDSI Summer School 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.
Upcoming Events
• Registration is now OPEN for the 2026 Europe Symposium, which will be held April 18-20 in Rotterdam. There were more than 130 submissions to the 2026 Europe Collaborator Showcase. The main conference agenda has been added to the event homepage.
• The 2026 OHDSI Global Symposium will be held Oct. 20-22 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, N.J.
Social Showcase
• Research from the 2025 Global Symposium Collaborator Showcase is being shared daily on OHDSI’s LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Instagram and Bluesky social channels as part of the #OHDSISocialShowcase. Below are posters (with study leads) that are featured this week:
Monday — Data Coordinating Center for the OHDSI Ophthalmic Network: A Proposal for the NEI OHDSI Challenge (Michelle Hribar)
Tuesday — Standardizing the Combat Trauma Registry Insights and Lessons Learned (Darshan Thota)
Wednesday — Standardizing Time Toxicity Metrics for Tracheostomy Patients Across Health Systems Using OMOP-CDM (Benjamin Martin)
Thursday — Impact of Comorbid Depression on Insulin Initiation and Cardiovascular Events Among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Multinational Cohort Study (Christianus Heru Setiawan)
Friday — PandemicPrediction: three-year temporal validation of SEEK-Cover models during the Covid pandemic (Egill Fridgeirsson)
Slides
Workgroup OKRs | Journal Club | Community Updates
Video Presentation
Workgroup OKRs (CDM, Data Quality, Evidence Network, Eye Care and Vision Research, HADES, Medical Imaging, Education, Health Systems, APAC)
Journal Club: Lancet Statin Adverse Events Study
