Weekly OHDSI Digest – June 16, 2025
WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING ATLAS month continues with our June 17 OHDSI Community Call (11 am ET) when we will focus on the concept set and cohort definition sections in the Atlas tool. Christopher Knoll (Director, Observational Health Data Analytics, Janssen Research and Development) and Richard Boyce (Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of […]
Weekly OHDSI Digest – May 19, 2025
WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING Clinical guidelines don’t just recommend treatments—they reveal where evidence is missing. In 2025, OHDSI launched an initiative to turn those gaps into research questions, driving real-world studies across the OHDSI Evidence Network. Join us during our next community call (May 20, 11 am ET) to hear updates from study leads, explore […]
OHDSI Weekly Digest – May 12, 2025
WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING The first OHDSI Maternal Health Fellowship was designed to empower early-stage clinical investigators to leverage emerging technologies for improved maternal and neonatal care while reducing morbidity and mortality. Fellows leveraged the NIH Maternal Health OHDSI Data Partner Network, comprised of seven US-based Academic Medical Centers. Four members of the program will […]
Weekly OHDSI Digest – May 5, 2025
WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING Evidence Synthesis is an R package for combining causal effect estimates without sharing individual person data. This includes functions for performing meta-analysis and forest plots. Our look at open-source tools to aid the research journey continues with our May 6 community call (11 am ET), when a pair of Titan Award […]
Weekly OHDSI Digest – April 28, 2025
WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING OHDSI hosted its fourth annual DevCon on April 25, and our upcoming April 29 community call will provide a recap on the event. DevCon included a series of lightning talks focusing on different tools and projects within the community’s open-source ecosystem, a conversation between developers around “Dev ops, DBT and, of course, LLMs” […]
Weekly OHDSI Digest – April 21, 2025
WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING Two core pillars of OHDSI research—estimation and prediction—will take center stage during our upcoming April 22 community call (11 am ET). As part of our Analysis April theme, this session highlights the progress we’re making in real-world evidence generation and showcases the tools and methods driving this work forward. We’re excited to […]
Weekly OHDSI Digest – April 14, 2025
WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING Please join our April 15 community call (11 am ET) for a session focused on the HADES TreatmentPatterns package. The tool both develops and analyzes treatment patterns, and it can formally define and implement the process of constructing treatment pathways. Learn more about this tool from this publication. We are happy to welcome Maarten […]
Weekly OHDSI Digest – April 7, 2025
WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING Please join our April 8 community call (11 am ET) for a quick overview of the Strategus package and HADES modules. We’ll walk through the OHDSI Strategus study template and show how it supports designing and running network studies—including the sample study we’re asking sites to run to prep for upcoming OHDSI research. […]
Weekly OHDSI Digest – March 31, 2025
WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING Our community has published more than 800 studies related to OHDSI or OMOP, and five lead authors will join our April 1 community call (11 am ET) to present their recently published research.s Cindy Cai • Johns Hopkins University Semaglutide and Nonarteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy • JAMA Ophthalmology Chen Yanover • KI Research Institute […]
Weekly OHDSI Digest – March 17, 2025
WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING Please join our March 18 community call (11 am ET) for a data-focused session, which will include an update on the OHDSI Evidence Network and its role in our guideline-driven evidence studies, as well as an overview of the Data Diagnostics tool. Evidence Network leads Clair Blacketer and Paul Nagy will lead this […]