WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING
Please join our Feb. 17 OHDSI Community Call (11 am ET) to hear about the Objectives and Key Results for some of our OHDSI workgroups, as well to join a mini-journal club session on this recent Lancet publication.
ATTENTION: NEW LINK
Due to ongoing technical issues within the OHDSI tenant, we have generated a new temporary link for our upcoming sessions.
- Action Required: Please ignore the original series invite on your calendar and use the link below to join.
- Update: We will provide a brief status update on these technical issues at the start of the call. We apologize for the inconvenience!
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.
WEEKLY WORKING GROUP MEETINGS (PLEASE NOTE TEMPORARY MEETING LINKS WHERE NOTED)
[Upcoming Workgroup Calls – OHDSI](Upcoming Workgroup Calls – OHDSIworking-group-calls/)
OHDSI SHOUTOUTS
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.
OHDSI UPDATES
Registration is now OPEN for the 2026 Europe Symposium, which will be held April 18-20 in Rotterdam. Submissions for the collaborator showcase are due Feb. 6. 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.
• 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 first 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.
OHDSI 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 F
UPCOMING OHDSI EVENTS
The 2026 OHDSI Europe Symposium will be held April 18-20 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. While registration has not opened yet, the deadline for abstract submissions is Feb. 6, 2026.
• The 2026 OHDSI Global Symposium will be held Oct. 20-22 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, N.J.
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