Weekly OHDSI Digest- April 12, 2021

WEEKLY MEETINGS Weekly Community Call: Please join us for our next OHDSI Community Call on Tuesday, April 13 at 11 am ET for a session of 10-minute tutorials on open-source tools that can aid your research. We are thrilled to welcome Michael Kallfelz (ATHENA/Vocabulary), Asieh Golozar (Creating Cohort Definitions in ATLAS), Frank DeFalco (ACHILLES) and Maxim Moinat (USAGI) to share their expertise with the community. […]

Weekly OHDSI Digest-April 5, 2021

WEEKLY MEETINGS Weekly Community Call: Please join us for the next OHDSI Community Call (Tuesday, April 6, 11 am ET) for an update on OHDSI Network Studies. We will have overview presentations from six community collaborators. • Seng Chan You: Cancer Risk Between H2 Blockers • Jenny Lane: MSKAI- Musculoskeletal adverse events following hormonal treatment for breast cancer: […]

Weekly OHDSI Digest- March 29, 2021

WEEKLY MEETINGS Weekly Community Call: Please join us for the next OHDSI Community Call (Tuesday, March 30, 11 am ET) for our March Data Visualization Challenge session. We’ll discuss data visualizations in general, and then several community collaborators will share and discuss their own submissions to our challenge, which highlighted how visualizations using OHDSI tools/data/results could […]

Weekly OHDSI Digest- March 22, 2021

WEEKLY MEETINGS Weekly Community Call: Please join us for the next OHDSI Community Call (Tuesday, March 23, 11 am ET) for a presentation on OHDSI’s work with the FDA BEST program to support its mission to conduct safety and effectiveness surveillance of biologic products (vaccines, blood and blood products, tissues and advanced therapeutics). Presentations will include: […]

Weekly OHDSI Digest-March 15, 2021

WEEKLY MEETINGS Weekly Community Call: Join us for the next OHDSI Community Call (Tuesday, March 16, 11 am ET) for a trio of research presentations on advances in patient-level prediction . • Jenna Reps will present “Best Practices for Prediction Using Observational Data” • Henrik John will present “External Validation of Existing Dementia Prediction Models on Observational Health Data” • Ross Williams will […]

Weekly OHDSI Digest- March 1, 2021

WEEKLY MEETINGS Weekly Community Call: This week’s OHDSI Community Call will feature breakout sessions on some important tools/processes for collaborative research: ETL, ATLAS and HADES. We’re thrilled to have some wonderful community leaders moderating these discussions. Clair Blacketer and Melanie Philofsky will lead our ETL conversation, Greg Klebanov and Anthony Sena will lead the ATLAS discussion, and Adam Black and Marc Suchard will lead the HADES discussion. […]

Weekly OHDSI Digest- February 22, 2021

WEEKLY MEETINGS Weekly Community Call: This week’s OHDSI Community Call will focus on ongoing COVID-19 research throughout the OHDSI community. We’re very excited to have a trio of community leaders to present Tuesday at 11 am ET: Kristin Kostka will discuss CHARYBDIS 2.0, Daniel Prieto-Alhambra will share recent SCYLLA results, and George Hripcsak will present on the ongoing Vaccine AESI Incidence Characterization […]

Weekly OHDSI Digest-February 15, 2021

WEEKLY MEETINGS Weekly Community Call: This week’s OHDSI Community Call will focus on the European Health Data & Evidence Network (EHDEN). You can expect to hear about all about this exciting partner of the OHDSI community, including its growing data network, the EHDEN Academy, 2021 goals and plenty more from EHDEN leaders Peter Rijnbeek and […]

Weekly OHDSI Digest-February 8, 2021

WEEKLY MEETINGS Weekly Community Call: We are very excited about tomorrow’s OHDSI Community Call (11 am ET), with a focus on “Welcome To The Journey.” While we think it will be useful for everybody, our major goal is to help some of you who are just learning about our community get started on the path […]

Weekly OHDSI Digest-February 1, 2021

WEEKLY MEETINGS Weekly Community Call: It continues to be exciting to see so many people join our Tuesday Community Calls at 11 am ET on MSTeams. This Tuesday will focus on open-source tools for cohort definition. We are excited to hear from Christopher Knoll , who will update the community on the recently released ATLAS 2.8, and Martin Lavallee , […]