OHDSI APAC - Our Asia-Pacific Community

OHDSI is a global, multi-stakeholder, interdisciplinary and open-science network that collaborates to bring out the value of health data through large-scale analytics. Our Asia-Pacific (APAC) community comprises seven regional chapters (Australia, China, India, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan) and has led important OHDSI initiatives around the world. 

OHDSI APAC Community in Teams
The APAC community has its own group in the OHDSI MS Teams environment to promote greater collaboration on our collaborative efforts. First, request access to our MS Teams Environment, then request access to our OHDSI APAC workgroup.

APAC Monthly Community Call
Everybody is invited to the monthly OHDSI APAC community call, which takes place the third Thursday of each month at 12 pm Korea time. These calls are meant to provide updates, share research presentations, collaborate on topics of shared interest, and plenty more. The upcoming schedule is available to the right.

Use this link to get to the bi-weekly meeting. The recordings from all 2023 calls will be posted here; recordings from both the 2021 and 2022 calls are available here.

Forthcoming OHDSI Australia Event
There will be a two-day OHDSI OMOP Melbourne Symposium hosted by the University of Melbourne, Centre for Digital Transformation of Health, on Oct. 18-19, 2023. It will be held at the Woodward Conference Centre (185 Pelham Street Carlton, VIC 3053), and you can register here (100-200 AUD). Please check out the full program agenda!

Ongoing APAC Studies
In 2021 APAC Symposium, the four studies below were selected by the community to work together.

Study documents and meeting recordings are saved under each study channel in OHDSI APAC Teams.

Study liaisons from each chapter are working closely with the study owners, and we appreciate all the help and support.

APAC Study Liaisons: Meet The Team

Past APAC Events
The 2022 APAC Symposium returned to an in-person setting at the Taipei Medical University. It included main presentations on Envisioning of OHDSI Global & OHDSI APAC; The Implication Experiences in OHDSI Region; and The Challenges of Research in OHDSI APAC. The symposium also included a full-day tutorial. All slides and recordings have been posted on the symposium homepage.

The 2021 OHDSI Symposium featured a set of presentations including the State of the Global and APAC Community, the EHDEN Consortium and the FHIR/OHDSI collaboration, study sessions, workgroup meetings and a collaborator showcase.

There was also a 2021 APAC ETL Training Tutorial, which included seven sessions: Introduction to ETL & Source Data Analysis, Vocabulary Mapping Part I, Vocabulary Mapping Part II, ETL Specification Writing, ETL Specification Review, Common Issues in ETL Conversion and OMOP ETL Development, and Data Quality Checks. You can watch all of the recordings now on the tutorial homepage.

The first OHDSI APAC Symposium provided an opportunity for our Asia-Pacific collaborators to share research, updates, and network discussions. The meeting recordings are saved in 2020 APAC Symposium Teams. 

Regional Chapters: Australia | China | India | Japan | Korea | Taiwan | Singapore

  • OHDSI News
  • Global Symposium Recap
    • From Singapore by Mukkesh Kumar and Cindy Ho
    • From Taiwan by Septi Melisa and Dian Tri Wiyanti
  • Training Session #6 by Taiwan
    • Population level estimation study: Risk of cardiovascular disease among female cancer patients using hormone therapies by Whitney Burton
    • Patient level prediction study: Prediction of dementia among patients with chronic disease by Thanh-Phuc Phan, Daniel Chris, Sunny Lin

Meeting Slides

Video Presentation

  • OHDSI News
  • Medicinal Cannabis Study Overview by Christine Hallinan
  • Data Quality of OHDSI APAC: CDM Inspection Study Update & Deep Learning Comparison Study Overview by Chungsoo Kim
  • December Meeting Preview
  • Support Areas Follow-up Survey Extension

Meeting Slides

Video Presentation

  • OHDSI News
  • Support Areas Follow-up Survey
  • Call for Volunteers: Multiple Sclerosis Study
  • Call for Collaborators: Medicinal Cannabis Study by Christine Hallinan
  • Community Contribution to the OHDSI Standardized Vocabularies (Part 2) by Anna Ostropolets

Meeting Slides

Video Presentation

  • OHDSI News
  • Training Session #5: Multiple Sclerosis
    • Characterization: incidence of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) during Multiple Sclerosis (MS) biologic exposure by Thamir M. Alshammari
    • Treatment, utilisation and safety of medicines for Multiple Sclerosis (TELEMUS) by Nicole Pratt

Meeting Slides

Video Presentation

  • Support Areas Follow-up Survey
  • OMOP CDM Survey 2023
  • Community Contribution to the OHDSI Standardized Vocabularies by Anna Ostropolets

Meeting Slides

Video Presentation

  • OHDSI News
  • India Chapter Mid-Year Update by Swetha Kiran
  • European Symposium Recap by Chungsoo Kim
  • APAC Symposium Recap by Nicole Pratt and Sujeong Eom

Meeting Slides

Video Presentation

  • OHDSI News
  • Regional Chapter Mid-Year Updates
    • Taiwan by Jason Hsu
    • China by Lei Liu
    • Australia by Nicole Pratt
    • Japan by Tatsuo Hiramatsu
    • Singapore by Mengling Feng
    • Korea by Rae Woong Park

Meeting Slides

Video Presentation

  • OHDSI News
  • Training Session #4: A*STAR Data Vault: a research platform for the Singapore ecosystem and beyond (Mukkesh Kumar and Cindy Ho)

Meeting Slides

Video Presentation

  • OHDSI News
  • Training Session #3: SOS Challenge Tutorials Recap

Meeting Slides

Video Presentation

  • OHDSI News
  • Training Session #2: Conducting comparative effectiveness study using CohortMethod Package by Seng Chan You and Subin Kim

Meeting Slides

Video Presentation

  • OHDSI News
  • Training Session #1: How to utilize CohortDiagnostics Package to evaluate cohort definitions? by Xiaoyu Lin
  • Call for Participation
Meeting Slides

Video Presentation

  • Future Directions of OHDSI
  • 2022 Goals Recap and 2023 Goals
  • Community Calls Restructure
  • APAC Scientific Forum
  • 2023 OHDSI APAC Symposium

Meeting Slides

Video Presentation

 
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