Community Calls

Everybody is invited to the weekly OHDSI community call, which takes place each Tuesday at 11 am ET. These calls are meant to inform and engage our community through a variety of call formats, including community presentations, workgroup updates, breakout sessions, publication announcements, newcomer-focused sessions, and more. The upcoming schedule is available to the right.

Videos, slides and weekly updates from this year’s calls are available below. Presentations from the 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021 community calls are also available.

June 17: ATLAS Deepdive: Cohorts and Concept Sets (Knoll, Boyce)

ATLAS is a free, publicly available, web-based tool developed by the OHDSI community that facilitates the design and execution of analyses on standardized, patient-level, observational data in the OMOP CDM format. Throughout June, OHDSI community calls will focus on the capabilities of the tool, while also brainstorming the roadmap for future versions.

In this third presentation, ATLAS workgroup lead Christopher Knoll and University of Pittsburgh Associate Professor Richard Boyce discuss the concept set and cohort definition sections in the ATLAS tool. This session included a live demo and introduced the third survey to help design the roadmap for ATLAS.

You can complete Survey 3 here.

Community Updates

• Congratulations to the team of Meghan L. McCarthy, Jonah Bradenday, Elizabeth Chen, Mark R. Zonfrillo, and Indra Neil Sarkar on the recent publication of Reductions in Blood Lead Level Screening During Peak COVID-19 Restrictions and Beyond in Public Health Challenges.

• Congratulations to the team of Zhang Meng, Shen Peng, Liu Zhike, Van Zandt Mui, Li Jing, Li Chao, Sun Yexiang, Xie Junqing, Wan Eric Yuk Fai, George Hripcsak, Chen Yong, Lin Hongbo, Zhan Siyan, and Sun Feng on the recent publication of Study of application of Common Data Model of Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership in China in the Chinese Journal of Epidemiology.

• Congratulations to the team of Jacob S Zelko and Justin Manjourides on the recent publication of A Generalized Tool to Assess Algorithmic Fairness in Disease Phenotype Definitions in the Proceedings — AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science.

• Congratulations to the team of Seok Kim, Dachung Boo, Sooyoung Yoo, Borham Kim, Kyubo Kim, Kwangsoo Kim, Eunhye Song, Junmo Kim, Hyun Gee Ryoo, Jin Chul Paeng, In Young Choi, SooJeong Ko, Ie Ryung Yoo, Rae Woong Park, and Ho-Young Lee on the recent publication of Secondary Cancer Risk in Breast Cancer with and without Radiotherapy: The Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) Cohort Study in Cancer Research and Treatment.

• Congratulations to the team of Kim López-Güell, Martí Català, Daniel Dedman, Talita Duarte-Salles, Raivo Kolde, Raúl López-Blasco, Álvaro Martínez, Gregoire Mercier, Alicia Abellan, Johnmary T. Arinze, Theresa Burkard, Edward Burn, Zara Cuccu, Antonella Delmestri, Dominique Delseny, Sara Khalid, Chungsoo Kim, Ji-woo Kim, Kristin Kostka, Cora Loste, Miguel A. Mayer, Jaime Meléndez-Cardiel, Núria Mercadé-Besora, Mees Mosseveld, Akihito Nishimura, Hedvig ME. Nordeng, Jessie O. Oyinlola, Roger Paredes, Laura Pérez-Crespo, Marta Pineda-Moncusí, Juan Manuel Ramírez-Anguita, Nhung TH. Trinh, Anneli Uusküla, Bernardo Valdivieso, Daniel Prieto-Alhambra, Junqing Xie, Lourdes Mateu, and Annika M. Jödicke on the recent publication of Clusters of post-acute COVID-19 symptoms: a latent class analysis across 9 databases and 7 countries in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology.

• Two Weeks Away! The submission deadline for the 2025 Collaborator Showcase is July 1. The showcase will be accepting both posters and software demos, as well as interest in hosting lightning talks. You can submit your brief report(s) here.

• General registration for the 2025 Global Symposium is now open!

• OHDSI is now on Bluesky! You can now get updates on all community activities and see all global research through the #OHDSISocialShowcase on Bluesky.

• The agenda for the 2025 OHDSI Europe Symposium (July 5-7) is available on its main page. The main conference will be held July 7, while tutorials and workshops are set for July 5-6. Registration is open and available on the homepage.

• The Columbia Summer School on OHDSI, which will be held July 14-18 at Columbia University, 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. Registration is now open and will be capped at 30 people.

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• The 2025 OHDSI Global Symposium will be held Oct. 7-9 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Agenda and registration information will be shared when available. The submission deadline for the 2025 Collaborator Showcase is July 1. The showcase will be accepting both posters and software demos, as well as interest in hosting lightning talks. You can submit your brief report(s) here.

• The OHDSI Europe Symposium will be hosted by the OHDSI Belgium Node on 5-7 July 2025 in the “Old Prison” building of Hasselt University in Hasselt, Belgium. The agenda for all three days is available on the website.

Job Openings

• Johnson & Johnson is hiring a Manager, Observational Health Data Analytics, in its Raritan, N.J., office. This candidate will work within the Global Epidemiology Organization (GEO) and contribute to the successful delivery of observational analyses for clinical characterization, population-level effect estimation, and patient-level prediction, as well as to the design of observational database analysis, including authoring protocol and analysis plans, and other responsibilities. More details and an application link are available here.

OHDSI Social Showcase

• Research from the 2024 APAC Symposium Collaborator Showcase is also being shared daily on OHDSI’s LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Instagram and Bluesky feeds as part of the #OHDSISocialShowcase. Below are posters (with study leads) that are featured this week:

Monday — Prediction of Hyponatremia in Cancer Patients Using Machine Learning Based on Oncology CDM (Yeji Lee)
Tuesday — Trend analysis in Prevalence of Dementia Medications: a perspective from Taipei Medical University (Septi Melisa)
Wednesday — Predicting outcome in emergency room patients with Suspected Gastrointestinal Infection using OMOP-CDM (So Hee Lee)
Thursday — A Graphical Interface and Workflow Engine for OHDSI Network Study design and execution (Sivanaga Sai Krishna Santan Maddi)</strong
Friday — Explore the opinions and attitudes of the application of common data models in regional databases from the perspective of Chinese people (Yexian Yu)

Slides

ATLAS Deepdive: Cohorts and Concept Sets | Community Updates

Video Presentation

June 10: ATLAS Deepdive: Data Sources and Vocabularies, Survey #2 (Knoll, Manoylenko)

In this second presentation, ATLAS workgroup leads Christopher Knoll and Alexey Manoylenko discuss the aspects of data sources and vocabularies within ATLAS. Manoylenko led a short run-through of the data sources reports and search functions using the Atlas UI, and then he went over the Week 2 Survey questions, as the ATLAS team continues to seek global community feedback as it plans the future roadmap for ATLAS. You can complete Survey 2 here.

Community Updates

• Congratulations to the team of Justin Bohn, James Gilbert, Christopher Knoll, David Kern, and Patrick Ryan on the recent publication of Large-scale Empirical Identification of Candidate Comparators for Pharmacoepidemiological Studies in Drug Safety.

• Three Weeks Away! The submission deadline for the 2025 Collaborator Showcase is July 1. The showcase will be accepting both posters and software demos, as well as interest in hosting lightning talks. You can submit your brief report(s) here.

• General registration for the 2025 Global Symposium is now open!

• OHDSI is now on Bluesky! You can now get updates on all community activities and see all global research through the #OHDSISocialShowcase on Bluesky.

• The ATLAS working group has put together a short survey to identify how the data sources and vocabulary features in ATLAS are being used, and to measure the value of those features to the global community. Please fill out the survey by Monnday, June 16.

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Job Openings

ATLAS is a free, publicly available, web-based tool developed by the OHDSI community that facilitates the design and execution of analyses on standardized, patient-level, observational data in the OMOP CDM format. Throughout June, our community calls will focus on the capabilities of the tool, while also brainstorming the roadmap for future versions.

ATLAS workgroup lead Christopher Knoll (Director, Observational Health Data Analytics, Janssen Research and Development) opened the month with a look at ‘The Journey of Atlas.’

Community Updates

• Congratulations to the team of Kyoung Jin Kim, Dachung Boo, Jimi Choi, Hyemin Yoon, Chai Young Jung, Seong Hee Ahn, Namki Hong, Beom-Jun Kim, Ji Seon Oh, and Seng Chan You on the recent publication of Comprehensive Evaluation of Treatment Patterns in Postmenopausal Patients with Osteoporosis without Fractures: Insights from Tertiary Care Institutions and Nationwide OMOP-CDM Data in Endocrinology and Metabolism.

• The June edition of The Journey Newsletter is now available, and it includes a look ahead at the 2025 Europe Symposium, video presentations on the ongoing guideline-driven evidence studies, the monthly video podcast, a new collaborator spotlight, 16 May publications and plenty more. If you don’t receive the newsletter in your email feed, you can subscribe here.

• Liesbet M. Peeters is an assistant professor at Hasselt University, where she bridges biomedical research, data science, and policy to shape responsible, people-centered health data ecosystems. Her efforts aim to strengthen data quality, integration, and visualization across complex, multicenter real-world datasets. In the latest edition of the Collaborator Spotlight, Liesbet discusses her career journey, her work with EHDEN and the Belgium National Node, as well as what to expect from the 2025 Europe Symposium, which she will lead this summer.

• General registration for the 2025 Global Symposium is now open!

• The ATLAS working group has put together a short survey to help identify who is using ATLAS in our community. If you are not using ATLAS, please also fill in this survey to help identify any barriers for adoption in your company/institution. Additionally, this survey will ask if you’d like to be interviewed for feedback on your usage of ATLAS. Data4Life is working closely with the working group to conduct interviews (~1hr) that will help inform the future direction of the application.

• The OHDSI UK Conference will be held September 26 at the Wellcome headquarters in London. More details and registration information are available here. The deadline to submit your abstract for the conference is Friday, May 9; please use this link to submit.

• The submission deadline for the 2025 Collaborator Showcase is July 1. The showcase will be accepting both posters and software demos, as well as interest in hosting lightning talks. You can submit your brief report(s) here.

• The next seminar from the Center for Advanced Healthcare Research Informatics (CAHRI) at Tufts Medicine will be held Thursday, May 29, at 9-10 am ET. Georgie Kennedy, Senior Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales and the Ingham Institute, will provide a talk on “Learning from Real-World Cancer Data: Maturing data pipelines to support research that impacts clinical care.” Please contact Marty Alvarez at [email protected] for calendar invite or questions.

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Job Openings

OHDSI Social Showcase

• Research from the 2024 APAC Symposium Collaborator Showcase is also being shared daily on OHDSI’s LinkedIn, Twitter/X and Instagram feeds as part of the #OHDSISocialShowcase. Below are posters (with study leads) that are featured this week:

Monday — Incidence, prevalence and treatment pattern of Parkinson disease from Taipei Medical University: an integration of open-software analytic tools (Phan Thanh-Phuc)
Tuesday — Enhancing Infectious Disease Data Integration and management through OMOP-CDM in South Korea (Min Ho An)
Wednesday — Enabling i2b2 on OMOP CDM Cohort Data semi-automatically by using Atlas and SQLMesh (Natpatchara Pongjirapat)
Thursday — The association between comorbid depression in type 2 diabetes to cardiovascular disease: A cohort OHDSI study (Christianus Heru Setiawan)
Friday — Atlas on Cloud: Utilizing modern cloud infrastructure for hosting OMOP tools (Natpatchara Pongjirapat)

Slides

The Journey of ATLAS | Community Updates

Video Presentation

The Journey of ATLAS

ATLAS Survey 1

May 27: Research Breakouts for OHDSI2025 Showcase

The Collaborator Showcase is a centerpiece of the OHDSI Global Symposium, celebrating the incredible range of research across our global community. With the July 1 submission deadline just over a month away, many have already begun preparing their work, so we used the May 27 community call as an opportunity to refine your ideas and provide feedback to others. This interactive session included small-group breakouts where people can brainstorm potential submissions, exchange ideas, and connect with fellow collaborators excited to share their work in the #OHDSI2025 Collaborator Showcase.

Prior to the breakouts, Amberlynn Reed, Assistant Director of the Office of Data Science and Health Informatics at the National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, joined the call to honor the winners of the “Expand OHDSI Initiative for Eye Care and Ocular Imaging Challenge,” a $1 million challenge aimed at integrating eye care and ocular imaging data into studies using large healthcare datasets in biomedical research. That video is posted below.

Community Updates

• Congratulations to the team of Sara Bachir, Abishaa Vengadeswaran, Holger Storf, and Dennis Kadioglu on the recent publication of Metadata-Driven Approach to Generalisation of Transformations in ETL Processes in Volume 327 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Intelligent Health Systems – From Technology to Data and Knowledge.

• Congratulations to the team of Elisa Henke, Michele Zoch, Yuan Peng, Mirko Gruhl, and Martin Sedlmayr on the recent publication of From Fragmentation to Integration: Challenges and Solutions for Record Linkage in OMOP CDM in Volume 327 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Intelligent Health Systems – From Technology to Data and Knowledge.

• Congratulations to the team of Alexandros Rekkas, Anastasia Farmaki, Achilleas Chytas, Antonios Lazaridis, Eugenia Gkaliagkousi, Pantelis Natsiavas on the recent publication of Preliminary Results of an OMOP-CDM Based Characterization Study for Rhabdomyolysis in Greece in Volume 327 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Intelligent Health Systems – From Technology to Data and Knowledge.

• Congratulations to the team of Adnan Jouned, Heike Düsseldorf, Florian Katsch, Maryam Jafarpour, and Georg Duftschmid on the recent publication of Comparative Study of ETL Tools for Transforming Healthcare Data to the OMOP Common Data Model (CDM) in Volume 327 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Intelligent Health Systems – From Technology to Data and Knowledge.

• Congratulations to the team of Achim Michel-Backofen, Romina Blasini, Jördis Beck, and Kurt Marquardt on the recent publication of Building a Research Infrastructure with REDCap and FHIR in Volume 327 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Intelligent Health Systems – From Technology to Data and Knowledge.

• Congratulations to the team of Prabath Jayathissa, Lukas Rohatsch, Stefan Sauermann, and Rada Hussein on the recent publication of OMOP-on-FHIR: Integrating the Clinical Data Through FHIR Bundle to OMOP CDM in Volume 327 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Intelligent Health Systems – From Technology to Data and Knowledge.

• Congratulations to the team of Seyedmostafa Sheikhalishahi, Johanna Schwinn, Matthaeus Morhart, Mathias Kaspar, and Ludwig Christian Hinske on the recent publication of Federated Learning for Predictive Analytics in Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation in Volume 327 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Intelligent Health Systems – From Technology to Data and Knowledge.

• Congratulations to the team of Hyesil Jung, Seok Kim, and Sooyoung Yoo on the recent publication of Conversion of Nursing Statements into the OMOP Common Data Model in Volume 327 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Intelligent Health Systems – From Technology to Data and Knowledge.

• Congratulations to the team of Johanna Schwinn, Seyedmostafa Sheikhalishahi, Matthaeus Morhart, Mathias Kaspar, and Ludwig Christian Hinske on the recent publication of A Federated Learning Model for the Prediction of Blood Transfusion in Intensive Care Units in Volume 327 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Intelligent Health Systems – From Technology to Data and Knowledge.

• Congratulations to the team of Angela Leis, Philippe Mortier, Franco Amigo, Madhav Bhargav, Susana Conde, Montserrat Ferrer, Oskar Flygare, Busenur Kizilaslan, Laura Latorre Moreno, Miguel-Angel Mayer, Víctor Pérez Sola, Ana Portillo van Diest, Juan Manuel Ramírez-Anguita, Ferran Sanz, Gemma Vilagut, Jordi Alonso, Lars Mehlum, Ella Arensman, Johan Bjureberg, Manuel Pastor, and Ping Qin on the recent publication of Machine Learning-Based Clinical Decision Support System for Suicide Risk Management: The PERMANENS Project in Volume 327 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Intelligent Health Systems – From Technology to Data and Knowledge.

• Congratulations to the team of Jongchan Park, Hye Jin Chang, Kyung Joo Hwang, Sun Hyung Yum, Chang Eun Park, Joo Hee Kim, and Miran Kim on the recent publication of Association of COX-2 Selectivity in Pain Medication Use with Endometriosis Incidence: Retrospective Cohort Study in the Yonsei Medical Journal.

• Congratulations to the team of Xinyu Zhou, Lovedeep Singh Dhingra, Arya Aminorroaya, Philip Adejumo, and Rohan Khera on the publication of A Novel Sentence Transformer-based Natural Language Processing Approach for Schema Mapping of Electronic Health Records to the OMOP Common Data Model in the AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings Archive.

• Congratulations to the team of Yuanzhen Yue, Ashok Khanal, Tianchu Lyu, Sharon Weissman, and Chen Liang on the publication of EHR Phenotyping Methods for Measuring Treatment Adherence Among People Living With HIV in All of Us: Towards Disparities and Inequalities in HIV Care Continuum in the AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings Archive.

• Congratulations to the team of Xiaojin Li, Yan Huang, Licong Cui, Shiqiang Tao, and Guo-Qiang Zhang on the recent publication of Optimizing Medication Querying Using Ontology-Driven Approach with OMOP: with an application to a large-scale COVID-19 EHR dataset in the AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings Archive.

• The Industry Workgroup is hosting a two-day in-person studyathon, though it may also have a virtual component, May 29-30 in the Gilead Office in Troy Hills, N.J. You can register here, and more information the event is available here.

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Job Openings

OHDSI Social Showcase

Monday — Asian and/or Pacific Islander: Unmasking health disparity within commonly aggregated diverse populations in the US Department of Veterans Affairs (Benjamin Viernes)
Tuesday — Comparative Study of Informer, Prophet, and SARIMA Time Series Forecasting Models for Predicting Pneumonia-Related Hospitalizations and Emergency Room Visits in Elderly Patients Using OMOP-CDM (Seonghwan Shin)
Wednesday — Exploring the interplay between metabolic syndrome and brain volume in depression: Basis for Phenotype-Based Classification (Sujin Gan)
Thursday — Oncology Incidence and Prevalence Trends 2005-2021 within the TMUCRD using OHDSI-validated OMOP CMD Standards (Whitney Burton)
Friday — Evaluating the Conversion of EHR data into OMOP CDM for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Cohort: Insights for Data Consistency (Burin Boonwatcharapai)

Slides

Community Updates

Video Presentation (Eye Care & Ocular Imaging Challenge)

May 20: Guideline Study Updates (Golozar, Skugarevskaya, Yanover, Mecoli, Zhuk, Kim, Han, Ostropolets, Cai, Srinivasan)

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. During our May 20 community call, 10 study leads joined to provide updates and discuss next steps and how others can collaborate. (Timestamps are for video below)

0:00 – Bladder Cancer Treatment (Asieh Golozar)
5:05 – Schizophrenia Pharmacotherapy (Tatsiana Skugarevskaya)
9:00 – Osteoporosis Management (Chen Yanover)
12:53 – Rheumatology DMARD Infection Management (Christopher Mecoli)
17:24 – Anesthesia Post-Operative Care (Oleg Zhuk)
19:37 – Obesity Management (Chungsoo Kim)
25:42 – Antithrombotic Use Post-PCI (Chang Hoon Han)
30:29 – Community Acquired Pneumonia Management. (Anna Ostropolets)
37:08 – Diabetic Retinopathy Screening (Cindy Cai)
40:58 – Pediatric Vision Screening (Gayathri Srinivasan)

Community Updates

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Job Openings

OHDSI Social Showcase

Monday — Feasibility of Integrating DICOM Headers into the OMOP Medical Imaging Common Data Model (MI-CDM): A Pilot Study Using Chest CT Data (Kyulee Jeon)
Tuesday — Risk of aortic aneurysm or dissection following use of fluoroquinolones: a multinational network cohort study (Jack L Janetzki)
Wednesday — Mapping Thai Medicine Terminology to RxNorm: Lessons Learned in Standard Vocabulary Integration (Krittaphas Chaisutyakorn)
Thursday — Enabling Genomic Data Harmonization in OMOP CDM (Erwin Tantoso)
Friday — Personalised prediction of chronic kidney disease progression in patients with chronic kidney disease stages 3-5: a multicentre study using the machine learning approach (Trung Toan Duong)

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Studies | Community Updates

Video Presentation

May 13: Maternal Health Fellowship Research Presentations (Sherwin, Howard, Murray, Stevenson)

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 joined the May 13 Community Call to share their research from the fellowship:

• Elizabeth Sherwin, Stanford University School of Medicine
Estimating the risk of severe maternal morbidity among pregnant people with congenital heart disease

• Elizabeth Howard, Ochsner Xavier Institute for Health Equity & Research
Risk of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Following Maternal Exposure to Buprenorphine vs Methadone Opioid Maintenance Therapy

• Sarah Murray, Centre for Reproductive Health, Institute for Regeneration and Repair, University of Edinburgh
Do antenatal corticosteroids (ACS) given to twins prior to planned birth (35-39 weeks’ gestation) reduce the risk of respiratory morbidity in the babies?

• Shannon Stevenson, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University
Healthcare Utilization Within the First 12 Weeks Postpartum

Community Updates

• Congratulations to the team of David Sarrat-González, Xavier Escribà-Montagut, Jared Houghtaling, and Juan González on the recent publication of dsOMOP: Bridging OMOP CDM and DataSHIELD for Secure Federated Analysis of Standardized Clinical Data in Bioinformatics.

• Andromeda 1.0.0 has been released. This is a major update, where we switch the backend from SQLite to DuckDB for greatly improved performance and smaller file sizes.

• Gabriel Maeztu is a medical doctor and mathematician revolutionizing healthcare with artificial intelligence. As the co-founder of IOMED, he has led the development of cutting-edge AI models, processing over 300 million medical records. Gabriel’s team served as a small-to-medium enterprise (SME) in the EHDEN project and engaged in building the diverse data network in Europe. He has presented posters at multiple OHDSI events, including one focused on NLP-derived OMOP results last year. In the latest edition of the collaborator spotlight, Gabriel discusses his career journey, how IOMED is impacting healthcare research, what he learned through his work with EHDEN, the critical value of advanced analytics, and plenty more.

• The latest edition of the OHDSI newsletter is now available. This issue includes details on the open-source ecosystem, including all videos from DevCon 2025, community updates, 14 April publications, the latest collaborator spotlight, our May podcast, and plenty more. If you don’t receive the newsletter monthly, you can find it on the website or subscribe here.

• The Women of OHDSI host a monthly AMA (Ask Me Anything) within their Teams environment. Mui Van Zandt will be the May focus person; please join here and ask questions about Mui’s OHDSI journey, research, work with data, and more.

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OHDSI Social Showcase

• Research from the 2024 Global Symposium Collaborator Showcase is also being shared daily on OHDSI’s LinkedIn, Twitter/X and Instagram feeds as part of the #OHDSISocialShowcase. Below are posters (with study leads) that are featured this week:

Monday — Bridging the Language Gap: Generative Models for Efficient Medical Concept Discovery (Alvaro Alvarez)

Slides

Overview | Sherwin | Howard | Stevenson | Community Updates

Video Presentations

Estimating the risk of severe maternal morbidity among pregnant people with congenital heart disease

Risk of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Following Maternal Exposure to Buprenorphine vs Methadone Opioid Maintenance Therapy

Does antenatal corticosteroids (ACS) given to twins prior to planned birth (35-39 weeks gestation) reduce the risk of respiratory morbidity in the babies?

Healthcare Utilization Within the First 12 Weeks Postpartum

May 6: Unlock Causal Insights with Evidence Synthesis (Schuemie, Chen)

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 continued with our May 6 community call, when a pair of Titan Award honorees present the Evidence Synthesis tool:

• Martijn Schuemie, Research Fellow, Global Epidemiology Organization, Johnson & Johnson
• Yong Chen, Professor of Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania

Community Updates

Save The Dates

• The OHDSI Europe Symposium will be hosted by the OHDSI Belgium Node on 5-7 July 2025 in the “Old Prison” building of Hasselt University in Hasselt, Belgium.

OHDSI Social Showcase

Monday — Leveraging the Power of OMOP for an Academic Medical Research Institution (Melanie Philofsky)</strong
Tuesday — Characterizing the Temporality of OMOP CDM Concepts in a Mastectomy Phenotype (Matthew Spotnitz)
Wednesday — Comparative Safety of Second-line Antihyperglycemic Agents in Older Adults with Diabetes: Insights from the LEGEND-T2DM study (Chungsoo Kim)
Thursday — The Impact of Evolving Diagnostic Guidelines on Clinical Characterization of Endometriosis (Harry Reyes Nieva)
Friday — The missing link: Cross-species EHR data linkage offers new opportunities for improving One Health (Kathleen Mullen)

Slides

Evidence Synthesis | Community Updates

Video Presentation

Apr. 29: DevCon 2025 - Our Open-Source Ecosystem (Nagy, Houghtaling, Sadowski, Fridgeirsson)

The OHDSI community hosted DevCon 2025, the fourth annual gathering dedicated to advancing open-source development and collaboration, on April 25. This event brought together developers and innovators to explore the latest tools, technologies, and strategies shaping the future of open-source software in healthcare and data science. The event kicked off with an exciting series of talks showcasing cutting-edge OHDSI projects, including updates on core infrastructure, cohort construction, and novel integrations with modern data platforms.

That session followed with a dynamic developer dialogue on key topics such as DevOps, DBT, and the growing role of large language models in open-source development. This interactive session provided insights from industry leaders on emerging trends, challenges, and opportunities in the evolving open-source landscape. It concluded with a panel on building sustainable open-source ecosystems, where experts shared their experiences in fostering long-term collaboration, innovation, and community-driven development. As the open-source movement continues to grow, understanding sustainable models becomes more critical than ever. Four members of the session joined the April 29 community call to provides talks and reflections on the event.

Introduction – Paul Nagy (Associate Professor of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University)
CustomVocabularyBuilder – Jared Houghtaling (Assistant Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine)
Takeaways from the Developer Dialogue – Katy Sadowski (Senior Associate Director – Real World Evidence Analytics, Boehringer Ingelheim)
PLP Demo – Egill Fridgeirsson (Scientific Researcher / Postdoc, Erasmus MC)

Community Updates

• Congratulations to the team of Klaus Donsa, Patrick Mangesius, Aaron Lauschensky, Martin Baumgartner, Nikola Tanjga, Stefan Beyer, Günter Schreier, and Karl Kreiner on the recent publication of FOX BOXes as Fundamental Enablers for EHR-Standardised Data Sharing – Building the Austrian Health Data Donation Space in Volume 324 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: dHealth 2025.

• Congratulations to the team of Jakob Thiel, Martin Sedlmayr, and Elisa Henke on the recent publication of Standardizing Heat-Related Diagnoses for Predictive Modeling in Healthcare in Volume 324 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: dHealth 2025.

• Congratulations to the team of Jin Ge, Albert Lee, Oksana Gologorskaya, Aryana Far, Asal Bastani, Chiung-Yu Huang, Mark J Pletcher, and Jennifer C Lai on the recent publication of Characterizing practice variations in the care of hospitalized patients with cirrhosis across the University of California Health in Liver Transplantation.

• Our fourth annual DevCon was held April 25. This event brought together developers and innovators to explore the latest tools, technologies, and strategies shaping the future of open-source software in healthcare and data science. All three sessions, as well as the introductory talk by Paul Nagy, are all available on the DevCon event page.

• The submission deadline for the 2025 Collaborator Showcase is July 1. The showcase will be accepting both posters and software demos, as well as interest in hosting lightning talks. More information on the symposium, including abstract submission and registration links, will be available soon.

• Christian Reich and Sarah Seager are leading an effort to publish a second edition of the Book of OHDSI, which will include updates to previous text and new paragraphs/chapters. This work is taking place within the Education workgroup; if you would like to join this effort, please sign up here.

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• The OHDSI Global Symposium will be held Oct. 7-9 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Agenda and registration information will be shared when available.

• The OHDSI Europe Symposium will be hosted by the OHDSI Belgium Node on 5-7 July 2025 in the “Old Prison” building of Hasselt University in Hasselt, Belgium.

OHDSI Social Showcase

Monday — Enhancing Local Vocabulary into OMOP Vocabulary based on the Semi-Automated Framework: Korean EDI Case Study (Yilu Park)
Tuesday — Scaling the OHDSI Common Data Model into Large Enterprises – Insights from the DoD Military Health System (Jesus Caban)
Wednesday — Race and ethnicity biases introduced by filtering electronic health records for patients with “complete data” (Yasaman Fatapour)
Thursday — Implementation and Evaluation of the Prevalence of Low-Value Care Procedures Using the OHDSI Network: A Case Study of Early Peripheral Vascular Interventions for Claudication (Chen Dun)
Friday — Accelerating FHIR to OMOP conversions on IQVIA Health Data Transformation Platform (Jonathan Cook)

Slides

DevCon Review | Community Updates

Video Presentation

Apr. 22: Current Practices in Estimation, Prediction (Hripcsak, Suchard, Williams, Fridgeirsson)

Two core pillars of OHDSI research—estimation and prediction—took center stage during our April 22 community call. As part of our Analysis April theme, this session highlighted the progress we’re making in real-world evidence generation and showcases the tools and methods driving this work forward.

We were excited to welcome leading voices from both research areas to share updates on current practices and discuss cutting-edge tools developed within the OHDSI community:

George Hripcsak, Vivian Beaumont Allen Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University
Marc Suchard, Professor of Biostatistics, Biomathematics, & Human Genetics, UCLA
Ross Williams, Assistant Professor, Erasmus University Medical Centre
Egill Fridgeirsson, Scientific Researcher/Postdoc, Erasmus University Medical Centre
Jenna Reps, Associate Director, Observational Health Data Analytics, Johnson & Johnson

Community Updates

• Congratulations to the team of Daniel Kapitan, Femke Heddema, André Dekker, Melle Sieswerda, Bart-Jan Verhoeff, and Matt Berg on the recent publication of Data Interoperability in Context: The Importance of Open-Source Implementations When Choosing Open Standards in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.

• Congratulations to the team of Young Hwa Lee, Young June Choe, Yoon Sun Yoon, Ji Young Park, Yun-Kyung Kim, Hyung Joon Joo, Sujin Choi, Hyun Jung Kim and Lorenzo Bertizzolo on the recent publication of Predicting ICU Admission Risk in Children with Respiratory Syncytial Virus in Infectious Diseases and Therapy.

• Congratulations to the team of Jenna Reps, Peter Rijnbeek and Patrick Ryan on the recent publication of Can we develop real-world prognostic models using observational healthcare data? Large-scale experiment to investigate model sensitivity to database and phenotypes in Diagnostic and Prognostic Research.

• Our fourth annual DevCon will be held Friday, April 25, from 9 am – 2 pm ET. This virtual session continues to connect our global open-source community so that we can learn about recent updates and discuss ways to continue enhancing the future of OHDSI open-source software.

Save The Dates

• The OHDSI Global Symposium will be held Oct. 7-9 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Agenda and registration information will be shared when available.

• The OHDSI Europe Symposium will be hosted by the OHDSI Belgium Node on 5-7 July 2025 in the “Old Prison” building of Hasselt University in Hasselt, Belgium.

OHDSI Social Showcase

Monday — PHederation – the federated network of Pulmonary Hypertension registries (Eva-Maria Didden)
Tuesday — Gap Analysis of Static Automated Perimetry Concept Representation in OMOP CDM (Shahin Hallaj)
Wednesday — Enhancing Cardiovascular Adverse Event Detection in ICI-Treated Cancer Patients: Lessons Learned from Natural Language Processing Integration with OMOP CDM (Clara L. Oeste)
Thursday — Electrocardiogram-Based Identification of Acute Heart Failure in Chronic Heart Failure: A MIMIC-IV and OMOP-CDM Standardized Approach (Seung Wook Lee)
Friday — OHDSI AI: Generative AI-powered Knowledge Translation of OHDSI Research Literature and Singapore’s Cardiovascular Research (Maisie Ng)

Slides

Estimation | Prediction | Community Updates

Videos

Recent Advances in Estimation (Hripcsak, Suchard)

Recent Advances in Prediction (Williams, Fridgeirsson)

Apr. 15: Introduction to the HADES TreatmentPatterns Package (van Kessel)

The April 15 community call 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. We were happy to welcome Maarten van Kessel, a software developer at Erasmus MC, to lead this session.

Learn more about this package here.

Community Updates

• Congratulations to the team of Shahin Hallaj, William Halfpenny, Niloofar Radgoudarzi, Michael V Boland, Swarup S Swaminathan, Sophia Y Wang, Benjamin Y Xu, Dilru C Amarasekera, Brian Stagg, Aiyin Chen, Michelle Hribar, Kaveri A Thakoor, Kerry E Goetz, Jonathan S Myers, Aaron Y Lee, Mark A Christopher, Linda M Zangwill, Robert N Weinreb, and Sally L Baxter on the recent publication of Gap Analysis of Standard Automated Perimetry Concept Representation in Medical Terminologies in the Journal of Glaucoma.

• Congratulations to the team of Elisa Henke, Stephan Lorenz, Michele Zoch, Martin Sedlmayr, and Yuan Peng on the recent publication of Mapping National Vocabularies to International Standards Using OHDSI Standardized Vocabularies in Volume 323 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics.

• Congratulations to the team of Yuan Peng, Elisa Henke, and Martin Sedlmayr on the recent publication of From Heterogeneity to Uniformity: A Metadata-Driven ETL Process for Transforming FHIR Data into OMOP CDM in Volume 323 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics.

• The Columbia OHDSI Summer School, which will be held July 14-18 at Columbia University, 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. Registration is now open and will be capped at 30 people.

Save The Dates

• The OHDSI Global Symposium will be held Oct. 7-9 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Agenda and registration information will be shared when available.

• The OHDSI Europe Symposium will be hosted by the OHDSI Belgium Node on 5-7 July 2025 in the “Old Prison” building of Hasselt University in Hasselt, Belgium.

OHDSI Social Showcase

Monday — Classification of RxNorm and RxNorm Extension Vaccine-related Terms in the Vaccine Ontology (Jie Zheng, Xingxian Li)
Tuesday — Common Data Elements for Maternal Health Research: An OMOP-CDM Concept Mapping Study (Andreea Creanga)
Wednesday — Design of Feedback Reports for Evaluating Data Fitness for Use in the Bridge2AI For Clinical Care Research Consortium (Jared Houghtaling)
Thursday — OHDSI in Africa and Partnerships with European Institutions (Cynthia Sung)
Friday — Comorbidities among patients with Severe Maternal Morbidity: A comparison of conditions identified through active hospital-based surveillance versus OMOP CDM (Carrie Wolfson)

Slides

Treatment Patterns | Community Updates

Videos

Introduction to the HADES TreatmentPatterns Package (van Kessel)

Apr. 8: Get Study-Ready with Strategus and HADES (Sena)

During the April 8 Community Call, HADES lead and Strategus maintainer Anthony Sena provided a quick overview of both the Strategus package and HADES modules. He walked through the OHDSI Strategus study template and show how it supports designing and running network studies—including the sample study that sites are being asked to run to prepare for upcoming OHDSI research. There was also a section dedicated to helping you design your own network study with Strategus and HADES.

Community Updates

• Congratulations to the team of Patricia Pedregal-Pascual, Carlos Guarner-Argente, Eng Hooi Tan, Asieh Golozar, Talita Duarte-Salles, Andreas Weinberger Rosen, Antonella Delmestri, Wai Yi Man, Edward Burn, Daniel Prieto-Alhambra, and Danielle Newby on the recent publication of Incidence and survival of colorectal cancer in the United Kingdom from 2000-2021: a population-based cohort study in The American Journal of Gastroenterology.

• Congratulations to the team of Minwoo Lee, Kyung Joo Lee, Jinseob Kim, Dong Yun Lee, Rae Woong Park, Sang Youl Rhee, Jae Myung Cha, Hyeon-Jong Yang, Jae-Won Jang, Seunguk Jung, Jeeun Lee, Sang-Hwa Lee, Chulho Kim, Jong-Seok Bae, Yeo Jin Kim, Ju-Hun Lee, Hyoeun Bae, and Yerim Kim on the recent publication of Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels and risk of incident dementia: a distributed network analysis using common data models in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry.

• Congratulations to Ferran Sanz on the recent publication of Integrative Data Science in Drug Safety Research: Experiences, Challenges, and Perspectives in the Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science.

• Congratulations to the team of Samuel Cox, Erum Masood, Vasiliki Panagi, Calum Macdonald, Gordon Milligan, Scott Horban, Roberto Santos, Chris Hall, Daniel Lea, Simon Tarr, Shahzad Mumtaz, Emeka Akashili, Andy Rae, Esmond Urwin, Christian Cole, Aziz Sheikh, Emily Jefferson, Philip Roy Quinlan on the recent publication of Conversion of Sensitive Data to the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership Common Data Model: Protocol for the Development and Use of Carrot in JMIR Research Protocols.

• Congratulations to the team of E. Claire Newbern, Azza Shoaibi, Kevin Haynes, Clair Blacketer, Corinne Willame, Frank DeFalco, Gowtham A. Rao, Kourtney Davis, Luis Anaya Velarde, Nicolas Praet, Rupa Makadia, Yimei Xu, Patrick Ryan, and Martijn Schuemie on the recent publication of A rapid cycle analytics framework for vaccine safety surveillance within a real-world data network: Experience with enhanced surveillance of the Janssen COVID-19 vaccine in Vaccine.

• Congratulations to the team of Liwei Wang, Andrew Wen, Sunyang Fu, Xiaoyang Ruan, Ming Huang, Rui Li, Qiuhao Lu, Heather Lyu, Andrew E. Williams & Hongfang Liu on the publication of A scoping review of OMOP CDM adoption for cancer research using real world data in NPJ Digital Medicine.

• The April edition of the OHDSI newsletter is now available. It includes community updates, details on the latest vocabularies refresh and community work around data, the monthly OHDSI podcast, recent publications and presentations, and plenty more.

• Daniel Morales is a General Practitioner and Epidemiologist affiliated with the Division of Population Health and Genomics at the University of Dundee. His research primarily focuses on the safety and effectiveness of medicines, leveraging his clinical and regulatory experience to inform epidemiological studies. Beyond his academic role, Daniel contributes to regulatory science as a Senior Clinical Epidemiologist within the Data Analytics Taskforce at the European Medicines Agency (EMA). In the latest edition of the Collaborator Spotlight, Daniel discusses his career journey, the progression of both EHDEN and DARWIN EU, how OHDSI can inform regulatory decision-making, and plenty more.

• The R/Medicine virtual conference provides a forum for sharing R based tools and approaches used to analyze and gain insights from health data. The call for proposals (talks, demos and workshops) is open through Friday, April 11.

Save The Dates

• The OHDSI Global Symposium will be held Oct. 7-9 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Agenda and registration information will be shared when available.

• The OHDSI Europe Symposium will be hosted by the OHDSI Belgium Node on 5-7 July 2025 in the “Old Prison” building of Hasselt University in Hasselt, Belgium.

OHDSI Social Showcase

Monday — Streamlining Research Data Standardization: AI-READI Survey Instrument Data Elements and MoCA Measurement Data Elements are curated and mapped utilizing a Standardized Value Set Mapping Table for transformation into the OMOP Common Data Model (Stephanie S. Hong)
Tuesday — Constructing an Enriched Clinical Knowledge Graph: Transforming EHR Data to OMOP and Modeling in Neo4j Graph Database (Thejas Bharadwaj)
Wednesday — Evaluation of PLIP model performance using pathology images and notes based on OMOP-CDM (Harrin Kim)
Thursday — Trends in Hospitalization Among Patients with Cardiovascular, Immunological, and neurological Illnesses: Findings from HowOften (Azza AS Shoaibi)
Friday — CohortContrast: Universal Patient Trajectory Extraction from OMOP CDM (Markus Haug)

Slides

Strategus | Community Updates

Videos

Strategus and HADES (Sena)

Apr. 1: OHDSI/OMOPResearch Spotlight (Cai, Yanover, Conover, Tong, Jing, Yi)

Our community has published more than 800 studies related to OHDSI or OMOP, and five lead authors joined our April 1 community call to present their recently published research.

Cindy Cai • Johns Hopkins University
Semaglutide and Nonarteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy • JAMA Ophthalmology

Chen Yanover • KI Research Institute
Characteristics and Outcomes of Over a Million Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Seven Countries: Multinational Cohort Study and Open Data Resource • Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Mitchell Conover • Janssen Research and Development
Objective study validity diagnostics: a framework requiring pre-specified, empirical verification to increase trust in the reliability of real-world evidence • JAMIA

Jiayi Tong • Johns Hopkins University
DisC2o-HD: Distributed causal inference with covariates shift for analyzing real-world high-dimensional data • Journal of Machine Learning Research

Naimin Jing, Yiwen Lu • University of Pennsylvania
Evaluating the Bias, type I error and statistical power of the prior Knowledge-Guided integrated likelihood estimation (PIE) for bias reduction in EHR based association studies • Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Community Updates

• Congratulations to the team of Eizen Kimura, Yukinobu Kawakami, Shingo Inoue, and Ai Okajima on the recent publication of A dataset for mapping the Japanese drugs to RxNorm standard concepts in Data in Brief.

• Congratulations to the team of Florian Katsch, Rada Hussein, Tanja Stamm, and Georg Duftschmid on the recent publication of Converting Health Level 7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) documents to Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership Common Data Model (OMOP CDM) by leveraging CDA Template definitions in JAMIA Open.

• Congratulations to the team of Meredith C B Adams, Matthew L Perkins, Cody Hudson, Vithal Madhira, Oguz Akbilgic, Da Ma, Robert W Hurley, and Umit Topaloglu on the recent publication of Breaking Digital Health Barriers: Development and Validation of an LLM-Based Tool for Automated OMOP Mapping in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.

• Congratulations to the team of Michelle Hribar, Cindy X Cai, Kerry E. Goetz, and George Hripcsak on the recent publication of The OHDSI Network in Ophthalmology-The Promise of Observational Health Data in JAMA Ophthalmology.

Save The Dates

• The OHDSI Global Symposium will be held Oct. 7-9 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Agenda and registration information will be shared when available.

• The OHDSI Europe Symposium will be hosted by the OHDSI Belgium Node on 5-7 July 2025 in the “Old Prison” building of Hasselt University in Hasselt, Belgium.

OHDSI Social Showcase

Monday — Enhancing Infectious Disease Data Integration and management through OMOP-CDM in South Korea (Min Ho An)
Tuesday — Towards automated phenotype definition extraction using large language models (Ramya Tekumalla)
Wednesday — Can we combine propensity score modeling and patient level prediction to make counterfactual predictions? (Jenna Reps)
Thursday — Real-world Effectiveness of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (RWE-MOUD) (Ruochong Fan)
Friday — Health Trends Across Communities in Minnesota: a Statewide Dashboard Leveraging the OMOP CDM to Monitor the Prevalence of Health Conditions (Samuel Patnoe)

Slides

Cai | Yanover | Conover | Jing/Lu | Community Updates

Videos

Semaglutide and Nonarteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy (Cai)

Characteristics and Outcomes of Over a Million Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Seven Countries: Multinational Cohort Study and Open Data Resource (Yanover)

Objective study validity diagnostics: a framework requiring pre-specified, empirical verification to increase trust in the reliability of real-world evidence (Conover)

DisC2o-HD: Distributed causal inference with covariates shift for analyzing real-world high-dimensional data (Tong)

Evaluating the Bias, type I error and statistical power of the prior Knowledge-Guided integrated likelihood estimation (PIE) for bias reduction in EHR based association studies (Jing/Lu)

Mar. 25: Ensuring Data Fitness for Oncology Research (Golozar)

Asieh Golozar, lead of the OHDSI Oncology workgroup, led the March 25 community call session focused on “Ensuring Data Fitness for Oncology Research.” This explored why high-quality data is essential for reliable cancer research and covered key aspects of data accuracy, completeness, and consistency to help researchers identify and address common issues. Asieh shared strategies to improve data reliability, making studies more reproducible and impactful.

Community Updates

• Congratulations to the team of Britt A.E. Dhaenens, Maxim Moinat, Eva-Maria Didden, Nadir Ammour, Rianne Oostenbrink, and Peter Rijnbeek on the recent publication of Identifying patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 related optic pathway glioma using the OMOP CDM in the European Journal of Medical Genetics.

• Congratulations to the team of Boris Delange, Benjamin Popoff, Thibault Séité. Antoine Lamer, and Adrien Parrot on the recent publication of LinkR: An open source, low-code and collaborative data science platform for healthcare data analysis and visualization in the International Journal of Medical Informatics.

• The collaborator showcase deadline for the 2025 OHDSI Europe Symposium is less than one week away. All submissions must be completed by March 31, 2025. More information on the Europe Symposium, which will be held July 5-7 in Belgium, is available here.

• Jodi Segal, Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, expressed her interest — and sought collaboration — in forming a workgroup around the overuse of healthcare. The workgroup mission would be to efficiently generate evidence about the effectiveness of interventions that reduce low value care delivery. Both the slides and the video are available; you can express interest at this forum post.

• Hongfang Liu will lead a talk on ‘A Translational Science Framework in Advancing Healthcare AI’ on March 27 at 11 am ET as part of The Center for Advanced Healthcare Research Informatics (CAHRI) at Tufts Medicine seminar series. Please contact Marty Alvarez at [email protected] for calendar invite or questions.

• Leaders from over 30+ workgroups presented opportunities for all community members to find a home for their talents and passions. Newcomers and veterans can both make meaningful contributions to our community by collaborating in workgroups. Throughout February, workgroup representatives shared the mission, recent achievements and 2025 goals. You can find those presentations and see if there is a home for you on our workgroups homepage.

Save The Dates

• The OHDSI Global Symposium will be held Oct. 7-9 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Agenda and registration information will be shared when available.

• The OHDSI Europe Symposium will be hosted by the OHDSI Belgium Node on 5-7 July 2025 in the “Old Prison” building of Hasselt University in Hasselt, Belgium. Registration is open and abstracts are due by March 31.

OHDSI Social Showcase

Monday — A Collaborative Analytic Enclave for the Metabolic Dysregulation and Obesity Cancer Risk Program (MeDOC) Consortium: Extensions of the OMOP Common Data Model for Translational Research (Madhan Subramanian)
Tuesday — A Systematic and Sustainable Solution for Assessing Network Data Quality (Kimberley Dickinson)
Wednesday — An Augmented Method for Empirical p-value Calibration in Observational Studies (Huiyuan Wang)
Thursday — A Oneshot and Lossless Federated Generalized Linear Mixed Effect Model (Jiayi Tong)
Friday — Polites: A Tool for the Automation of OHDSI Implementations (John Gresh)

Slides

Ensuring Data Fitness for Oncology Research | Community Updates

Videos

Ensuring Data Fitness for Oncology Research

Mar. 18: Evidence Network & Data Diagnostics Tool (Blacketer)

Clair Blacketer, lead of the OMOP Common Data Model workgroup, led this March 18 community call focused on Data Fitness for Use. She provided an update on the rapidly growing Evidence Network, and then she went through the Data Diagnostics tool to show how to ensure real-world data is able to be used for network studies.

Community Updates

• The Dutch and Oxford ISPE Student Chapters are hosting a webinar on various career paths in pharmacoepidemiology this Wednesday, March 19th, 3-4 pm CET (2-3 pm GMT). This webinar will include four speakers who will discuss their careers and provide tips on getting started: Daniala Weir, assistant professor at Utrecht University, Romin Pajouheshnia, Research Epidemiologist at RTI-Health Solutions, Anna Menacher, Medical innovation scientist at Novo Nordisk, and Andrei Barbulescu, Pharmacoepidemiologist and data analyst at EMA. This webinar is open to all students (and former students) interested in European careers in pharmacoepidemiology. Use this link to sign up! https://lnkd.in/eu_Jvqaf.

• Congratulations to Patrick Ryan, who was honored as the Best Male Ally in the 2025 Women of Pharma Role Model Awards. He was nominated by Sarah Seager.

• Asieh Golozar announced that the iCAN mNSCLC Studyathon 2025 will be held March 25-28 I Helsinki, Finlad, and the focus is “Exploring the Real-World Treatment Landscape of mNSCLC.” The event will focus on characterizing real-world treatment patterns of metastatic NSCLC, with a focus on the adoption and impact of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) across different regions. Reach out to Asieh Golozar ([email protected]) for more information or if you wish to contribute.

Save The Dates

• The OHDSI Global Symposium will be held Oct. 7-9 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Agenda and registration information will be shared when available.

OHDSI Social Showcase

Monday — Towards Reproducible Imaging Research: Implementation of DICOM to OMOP CDM (Woo Yeon Park)
Tuesday — Using Vaccine Ontology to Analyze and Integrate Vaccine Terms in N3C Dataset (Yuanyi Pan)
Wednesday — Building OHDSI with Privacy Computing in Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University (Changran Wang)
Thursday — Collaborative Population-adjusted Indirect Comparison with Multiple Single-arm Data Sources (Yuru Zhu)
Friday — Visual Acuity: A Case Study for a Complex Clinical Concept (Michelle Hribar)

Slides

Evidence Network & Data Diagnostics | Community Updates

Videos

Evidence Network & Data Diagnostics

Mar. 11: Book of OHDSI 2.0 Discussion (Reich)

The Book of OHDSI, published in 2019, has been one of the most widely accessed educational tools within the community. It was recently announced that Christian Reich and Sarah Seager are leading an initiative to publish a second edition of the Book of OHDSI, featuring updated content and new chapters. The March 11 community call featured a discussion on what might be included in the second edition, and how it will need to come together prior to the 2025 Global Symposium.

If you are interested in joining this collaborative community effort, please sign up for the Education WG. Conversations and activities around the Book of OHDSI will take place within that workgroup.

Community Updates

• Congratulations to the team of Inessa Cohen, Zihan Diao, Pawan Goyal, Aarti Gupta, Kathryn Hawk, Bill Malcom, Caitlin Malicki, Dhruv Sharma, Brian Sweeney, Scott Weiner, Arjun Venkatesh, and Andrew Taylor on the recent publication of Mapping Emergency Medicine Data to the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership Common Data Model: A Gap Analysis of the American College of Emergency Physicians Clinical Emergency Data Registry in the Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open.

• Congratulations to the team of Yi Chai, Ivan C. H. Lam, Kenneth K. C. Man, Joseph F. Hayes, Eric Y. F. Wan, Xue Li, Celine S. L. Chui, Wallis C. Y. Lau, Xiaoyu Lin, Can Yin, Min Fan, Esther W. Chan, Ian C. K. Wong & Hao Luo on the recent publication of Psychiatric and neuropsychiatric sequelae of COVID-19 within 2 years: a multinational cohort study in BMC Medicine.

• The Industry WG is hosting an industry specific studaython (potential dates are May or June) and is looking for input on who might be interested and what dates work best. If you are a member of the Industry WG or are considering joining the team, please fill out this survey by the end of this week.

• Christian Reich and Sarah Seager are leading an effort to publish a second edition of the Book of OHDSI, which will include updates to previous text and new paragraphs/chapters. This work is taking place within the Education workgroup; if you would like to join this effort, please sign up here.

• Asieh Golozar announced that the iCAN mNSCLC Studyathon 2025 will be held March 25-28 I Helsinki, Finlad, and the focus is “Exploring the Real-World Treatment Landscape of mNSCLC.” The event will focus on characterizing real-world treatment patterns of metastatic NSCLC, with a focus on the adoption and impact of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) across different regions. Reach out to Asieh Golozar ([email protected]) for more information or if you wish to contribute.

Save The Dates

• The OHDSI Global Symposium will be held Oct. 7-9 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Agenda and registration information will be shared when available.

OHDSI Social Showcase

Monday — Adopting the OMOP Oncology CDM at the Helsinki University Hospital (Valtteri Nieminen)
Tuesday — ETIng from your OMOP CDM to your OMOP CDM? An efficient solution to vocabulary migration (Clair Blacketer)
Wednesday — Comparative Analysis of OMOP CDM Database Profiles Across Institutions and Future Research Implications (Haeun Lee)
Thursday — Atlas2AoU: Enabling Comparison of OHDSI Phenotype Library Phenomic Profiles in All of Us and the UK Biobank (Abigail Newbury)
Friday — Measuring Severe Maternal Morbidity: A Pilot OHDSI Electronic Health Record Network Study (Stephanie Leonard)

Slides

Book of OHDSI | Community Updates

Videos

Book of OHDSI 2.0

Mar. 4: Vocabulary Winter 2025 Refresh + Phenotype Phebruary Review (Ostropolets, Shoaibi, Zhuk, Korsik)

The Winter 2025 vocabulary refresh was released last week and includes several domain changes, newly added concepts, concept changes and more. Please join our March 4 community call (11 am ET) for a full update on this recent refresh, led by

• Anna Ostropolets, Associate Director, Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia University
• Oleg Zhuk, Manager, Data Analytics Consulting, EPAM Systems
• Vlad Korsik, Vocabulary Technical Lead, EPAM Systems
• Masha Khitrun, Senior Scientific Curation Specialist, EPAM Systems

This session also included a Phenotype Phebruary review from two members of our leadership team: Anna Ostropolets and Azza Shoaibi.

Community Updates

• Congratulations to the team of Seonji Kim, Subin Kim, Chungsoo Kim, Junhyuk Chang, Rae Woong Park, Kyung Won Kim, and Seng Chan You on the publication of Utility of Treatment Pattern Analysis Using a Common Data Model: A Scoping Review in Healthcare Informatics Research.

• The latest edition of The Journey Newsletter is now available, and it includes reviews of Phenotype Phebruary and workgroup updates, recent community updates, publications and presentations from February, and plenty more.

• Please consider joining the Scientific Review Committee for the 2025 OHDSI Global Symposium, which will be held Oct. 7-9. Please fill out this form by March 4 if you are interested or want to learn more.

Save The Dates

• The OHDSI Global Symposium will be held Oct. 7-9 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Agenda and registration information will be shared when available.

• The OHDSI Europe Symposium will be hosted by the OHDSI Belgium Node on 5-7 July 2025 in the “Old Prison” building of Hasselt University in Hasselt, Belgium. Agenda and registration information will be shared when available.

OHDSI Social Showcase

Monday — Inclusion of intraocular pressure data into the University of California Health Data Warehouse (William Halfpenny and Shahin Hallaj)
Tuesday — Hierarchical Algorithms for Querying Physiologically Distinct Groups in Adult Congenital Heart Disease Using OMOP CDM (Seohu Lee)
Wednesday — Vasculitis without phlebitis phenotype development using real-world data: development and evaluation study (Jill Hardin)
Thursday — Using OHDSI Standards and Tools to Train the Next Generation of Researchers (Jonah Bradenday)
Friday — Comparing probabilistic and rule-based phenotype algorithms for hypotension and angioedema to the experience observed in randomized clinical trials (Joel Swerdel)

Job Postings

• Monica Gerber shared a job opening for an Analytics Engineer at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington. As an Analytics Engineer, you will collaborate with our data science team to design, build, and maintain multi-modal data models that integrate various data sources. Your work will support AI-driven research and translational data science use cases, helping to advance our scientific and technological goals. More information and an application link are available here.

Slides

Vocabulary Refresh | Phenotype Phebruary | Community Updates

Videos

Winter 2025 Vocabulary Refresh

Phenotype Phebruary Review

Feb. 25: Phenotype Phebruary + Workgroup OKRs, Week 4

Week 4 of Phenotype Phebruary is dedicated to iterating on cohort definitions & evaluating with additional OHDSI tools for the phenotypes that will be used in the guideline-driven evidence opportunities presented last month. Oleg Zhuk provided a tutorial on Cohort Diagnostics, while Anna Ostropolets and Azza Shoaibi discussed the progress of Phenotype Phebruary.

OHDSI workgroups present opportunities for all community members to find a home for their talents and passions, and make meaningful contributions. Each year, workgroups discuss their mission, objectives and key results (OKRs) during February community calls. This video includes presentations by the Africa Chapter, Rare Diseases, Surgery & Perioperative Medicine, GIS, Natural Language Processing, Medical Devices, Oncology, Themis and CDM Survey workgroups.

Videos for both parts of the Feb. 25 community call are available below.

Community Updates

• Congratulations to the team of Jiyong An, Jiyun Kim, Leonard Sunwoo, Hyunyoung Baek, Sooyoung Yoo & Seunggeun Lee on the recent publication of De-identification of clinical notes with pseudo-labeling using regular expression rules and pre-trained BERT in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making.

• Congratulations to the team of Eun-Gee Park, Min Jung Kim, Jinseo Kim, Kichul Shin, and Borim Ryu on the publication of Utility of Treatment Pattern Analysis Using a Common Data Model: A Scoping Review in Healthcare Informatics Research.

• Congratulations to the team of Chen Yanover, Ramit Magen-Rimon, Erica A. Voss, Joel Swerdel, Anna Sheahan, Nathan Hall, Jimyung Park, Rae Woong Park, Kwang Jae Lee, Sung Jae Shin, Seung In Seo, Kyung-Joo Lee, Thomas Falconer, Leonard Haas, Paul Nagy, Mary Grace Bowring, Michael Cook, Steven Miller, Tal El-Hay, Maytal Bivas-Benita, Pinchas Akiva, Yehuda Chowers & Roni Weisshof on the recent publication of Characteristics and Outcomes of Over a Million Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Seven Countries: Multinational Cohort Study and Open Data Resource in Digestive Diseases and Sciences.

• Congratulations to the team of Cindy X. Cai Michelle Hribar, Sally Baxter, Kerry Goetz, Swarup S. Swaminathan, Alexis Flowers, Eric N. Brown, Brian Toy, Benjamin Xu, John Chen, Aiyin Chen, Sophia Wang, Cecilia Lee, Theodore Leng, Joshua R. Ehrlich, Andrew Barkmeier, Karen R. Armbrust, Michael V. Boland, David Dorr, Danielle Boyce, Thamir Alshammari, Joel Swerdel, Marc A. Suchard, Martijn Schuemie, Fan Bu, Anthony G. Sena, George Hripcsak, Akihiko Nishimura, Paul Nagy, Thomas Falconer, Scott L. DuVall, Michael Matheny, Benjamin Viernes, William O’Brien, Linying Zhang, Benjamin Martin, Erik Westlund, Nestoras Mathioudakis, Ruochong Fan, Adam Wilcox, Albert Lai, Jacqueline C. Stocking, Sahar Takkouche, Lok Hin Lee, Yangyiran Xie, Izabelle Humes, David B. McCoy, Mohammad Adibuzzaman, Raymond G. Areaux Jr, William Rojas-Carabali, James Brash, David A. Lee, Nicole G. Weiskopf, Louise Mawn, Rupesh Agrawal, Hannah Morgan-Cooper, Priya Desai, and Patrick B. Ryan on the recent publication of Semaglutide and Nonarteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy in JAMA Ophthalmology.

• Congratulations to the team of ChulHyoung Park, So Hee Lee, Da Yun Lee, Seoyoon Choi, Seng Chan You, Ja Young Jeon, Sang Jun Park, and Rae Woong Park on the publication of Analysis of Retinal Thickness in Patients With Chronic Diseases Using Standardized Optical Coherence Tomography Data: Database Study Based on the Radiology Common Data Model in JMIR Medical Informatics.

• Please consider joining the Scientific Review Committee for the 2025 OHDSI Global Symposium, which will be held Oct. 7-9. Please fill out this form by March 3 if you are interested or want to learn more.

Save The Dates

• The OHDSI Global Symposium will be held Oct. 7-9 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Agenda and registration information will be shared when available.

OHDSI Social Showcase

Monday — Standardizing Rare Disease Patient Registry data to the OMOP-CDM (Parag Shiralkar)
Tuesday — Who Wants To Be A 2Billionaire? – A methodology for migrating from STCM to C/CR (Roger Carlson)
Wednesday — Leveraging the active comparator new user design to identify potential unknown benefits of canagliflozin (Justin Bohn)
Thursday — Does the SARS-CoV-2 Infection Increase the Onset of New Mental Health Disorder? Findings from Difference-in-Differences Analyses Using an EHR-Based Cohort from the RECOVER Program (Yiwen Lu)
Friday — dbt for OMOP Phase I: dbt-synthea (Katy Sadowski)

Job Postings

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Phenotype Phebruary, Week 4

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Feb. 18: Phenotype Phebruary + Workgroup OKRs, Week 3

Week 3 of Phenotype Phebruary is dedicated to evaluating cohorts using CohortDiagnostics for the phenotypes that will be used in the guideline-driven evidence opportunities presented last month, and our leads will discuss next steps in this process.

OHDSI workgroups present opportunities for all community members to find a home for their talents and passions, and make meaningful contributions. Each year, workgroups discuss their mission, objectives and key results (OKRs) during February community calls. This video includes presentations by the OHDSI APAC, Generative AI and Foundational Models in Healthcare (GenAI), HADES, Eye Care and Vision Research, Latin America, Transplant, Databricks, Medical Imaging, and Psychiatry workgroups.

Videos for both parts of the Feb. 18 community call are available below.

Community Updates

• Congratulations to the team of Alicia Abellan, Edward Burn, Nhung T. H. Trinh, Theresa Burkard, Alison Callahan, Sergio Fernández-Bertolín, Eimir Hurley, Clara Rodriguez, Elena Segundo, Daniel R. Morales, Hedvig M. E. Nordeng, and Talita Duarte-Salles on the recent publication of Expanding the OMOP Common Data Model to Support Perinatal Research in Network Studies in Pharmacoepidemiology & Drug Safety.

• Congratulations to the team of Aurora Quaye, John DiPalazzo, Kristin Kostka, Janelle Richard, Blaire Beers-Mulroy, Meredith Peck, Robert Krulee, and Yi Zhang on the publication of Harmonizing population health data into OMOP common data model: a demonstration using COVID-19 sero-surveillance data from Nairobi Urban Health and Demographic Surveillance System in Frontiers in Digital Health.

• Phenotype Phebruary continues this week, with a focus on evaluating cohorts using CohortDiagnostics for the phenotypes that will be used in the guideline-driven evidence opportunities presented last month. You can follow everything going on in Phenotype Phebruary and contribute wherever you can.

• The goal of the OHDSI Rare Disease Working Group is to advance the understanding and treatment of rare diseases by leveraging real-world data, uniting multidisciplinary experts, and developing innovative methodologies to improve patient outcomes and inform clinical decision-making. The workgroup has posted a brief interest survey to help shape a productive and collaborative community. Please fill out this survey by Tuesday, Feb. 18.

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• The OHDSI Global Symposium will be held Oct. 7-9 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Agenda and registration information will be shared when available.

OHDSI Social Showcase

Monday — Going global, redeeming the local: an innovative approach to implement the OMOP CDM in two countries of the Global South (Valentina Martufi)
Tuesday — A Computable Phenotype for HSV Anterior Uveitis: Operationalizing the SUN Classification Criteria (Brian Toy)
Wednesday — Comparative Evaluation of Methods for Defining Observation Periods in Healthcare Databases and Their Impact on Incidence Rate Estimates (Clair Blacketer)
Thursday — How Often: Large Scale Incidence Rate Calculation of Health Outcomes for Drugs Nested by Indication (Hsin Yi Chen)
Friday — FinOMOP Swarm Learning – Deep learning for patient-specific modelling of Acute Myeloid Leukemia (Salma Rachidi)

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Phenotype Phebruary, Week 3

Workgroup OKRs, Week 3

Feb. 11: Phenotype Phebruary + Workgroup OKRs, Week 2

Week 2 of Phenotype Phebruary is dedicated to developing concept sets and constructing logical frameworks for the phenotypes that will be used in the guideline-driven evidence opportunities presented last month, and our leads will discuss next steps in this process.

OHDSI workgroups present opportunities for all community members to find a home for their talents and passions, and make meaningful contributions. Each year, workgroups discuss their mission, objectives and key results (OKRs) during February community calls. This video includes presentations by the Methods Research, Common Data Model, Evidence Network, Patient-Level Prediction (PLP), Early-Stage Researchers, Women of OHDSI, and ATLAS workgroups.

Videos for both parts of the Feb. 11 community call are available below.

Community Updates

• Congratulations to the team of Justin Quon, Christopher Long, William Halfpenny, Amy Chuang, Cindy Cai, Sally Baxter, Vamsi Daketi, Amanda Schmitz, Neil Bahroos, Benjamin Xu, and Brian Toy on the recent publication of Implementing a Common Data Model in Ophthalmology: Mapping Structured Electronic Health Record Ophthalmic Examination Data to Standard Vocabularies in Ophthalmology Science.

• Congratulations to the team of Aurora Quaye, John DiPalazzo, Kristin Kostka, Janelle Richard, Blaire Beers-Mulroy, Meredith Peck, Robert Krulee, and Yi Zhang on the publication of Identifying factors associated with persistent opioid use after total joint arthroplasty: a retrospective review in Pain Medicine.

• Congratulations to the team of Kevin Ouazzani, Xavier Ansolabehere, Florence Journeau, Alexandre Vidal, Nicolas Jaubourg, Maxime Doublet, Raphael Thollot, Arnaud Fabre, and Nicolas Glatt on the recent publication of Project Victoria: A pragmatic data model to automate RWE generation from the national French claims database in the Health Informatics Journal.

• Fourteen OHDSI collaborators provided presentations about guideline-driven evidence opportunities for community network studies. You can see those talks here, and share what studies you would like to join.

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• The OHDSI Global Symposium will be held Oct. 7-9 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Agenda and registration information will be shared when available.

OHDSI Social Showcase

Monday — Evaluating the impact of different vocabulary versions on cohort definitions and CDM (Dmitry Dymshyts)
Tuesday — The state of federated health data networks globally in 2024 (Michael Briganti)
Wednesday — Comparison of Deep Learning and Conventional Strategies for Disease Onset Prediction: An OHDSI Network Study (Henrik John)
Thursday — Prediction of Severe Respiratory Infections in Patients with Diabetes (Nguyen Thi Kim Hien)
Friday — Visualising OMOP concept relationships with omopcept (Andy South)

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Phenotype Phebruary, Week 2 (tutorial breakouts below)

Workgroup OKRs, Week 2

Tutorial: Concept Set Creation (Tatiana Skugarevskaya)

Tutorial: Cohort Definition Creation (Kevin Haynes)

Feb. 4: Phenotype Phebruary + Workgroup OKRs, Week 1

Welcome to Phenotype Phebruary 2025! Now in its fourth year, Phenotype Phebruary focuses on building upon the guideline-driven evidence opportunities presented last month, and the first week will focus on creating clinical descriptions for cohorts that may be used in these studies. This community call highlighted how and where this work can be done, and why it will provide the foundation for future work done in these network studies. You can follow updates on Phenotype Phebruary on this forum thread, and you can share your interest in joining the collaboration via this form.

OHDSI workgroups present opportunities for all community members to find a home for their talents and passions, and make meaningful contributions. Each year, workgroups discuss their mission, objectives and key results (OKRs) during February community calls. This session included presentations by the Health Systems Interest Group, Vocabulary, Rehabilitation, Perinatal and Reproductive Health, and the Steering Group.

Videos for both presentations are available below.

Community Updates

• Congratulations to the team of Gyubeom Hwang, So Hee Lee, Dong Yun Lee, ChulHyoung Park, Hyun Woong Roh, Sang Joon Son, and Rae Woong Park on the recent publication of Age-related eye diseases and subsequent risk of mental disorders in older adults: A real-world multicenter study in the Journal of Affective Disorders.

• Congratulations to the team of Noah Jones, Ming-Chieh Shih, Elizabeth Healey, Chen Wen Zhai, Sonali Advani, Aaron Smith-McLallen, David Sontag, and Sanjat Kanjilal on the publication of Use of Machine Learning to Assess the Management of Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infection in JAMA Network Open.

• Congratulations to the team of Seok Jun Park, Seungwon Yang, Suhyun Lee, Sung Hwan Joo, Taemin Park, Dong Hyun Kim, Hyeonji Kim, Soyun Park, Jung-Tae Kim, Won Gun Kwack, Sung Wook Kang, Yun-Kyoung Song, Jae Myung Cha, Sang Youl Rhee, and Eun Kyoung Chung on the recent publication of Machine-Learning Parsimonious Prediction Model for Diagnostic Screening of Severe Hematological Adverse Events in Cancer Patients Treated with PD-1/PD-L1 Inhibitors: Retrospective Observational Study by Using the Common Data Model in Diagnostics.

• The latest OHDSI newsletter is now available. It includes information about the 14 guideline-driven evidence opportunities presented in January, the monthly podcast, community updates, the latest collaborator spotlight, recent publications and presentations, and plenty more. If you don’t receive the newsletter each month, you can subscribe here.

• Dr. Cynthia Sung is an Adjunct Associate Professor for the Centre of Regulatory Excellence at Duke-National University of Singapore Medical School, teaching and developing curricula for the Graduate Certificate in Health Products Regulation. She is an active member of the OHDSI Community, primarily as co-lead for the OHDSI Africa Chapter and also participating in working groups for Clinical Trials and Pregnancy and Reproductive Health. She was honored with the 2023 Titan Award for Community Collaboration. In the latest collaborator spotlight, Cynthia discusses a career journey that has taken her around the world, the need for FAIR data in less-represented populations, exciting developments within Africa, and more.

Save The Dates

• The OHDSI Global Symposium will be held Oct. 7-9 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Agenda and registration information will be shared when available.

OHDSI Social Showcase

Monday — SMEs optimization with high precision data ingestion of CAPriCORN CDM onto OMOP at AllianceChicago (Andrew Hamilton)
Tuesday — Automating data standardization through ad hoc SNOMED modeling with LLM: proof of concept (Eduard Korchmar)
Wednesday — Is the Observed Protection of COVID-19 Vaccines Against Infection within 14 days Real or an Artifact? A Negative Control Outcomes-Based Investigation Using Real-World Data (Bingyu Zhang)
Thursday — Risk of Dysmetabolic Syndrome in Post-Acute COVID-19 Among Children and Adolescents: An EHR Cohort Study from the RECOVER Initiative (Yuqing Lei)
Friday — Advancing the OHDSI Analysis Viewer: Enhanced Performance, Integration, and User Experience (Nathan Hall)

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Phenotype Phebruary, Week 1

Workgroup OKRs, Week 1

Jan. 28: Clinical Guideline Review, Sssion II (Han, Golozar, Mecoli, Zhuk, Skugarevskaya, Khitru, Korsik, Cai, Yanover/Rouach, Khilchevski, Hribar)

One proposed focus for the OHDSI community is around guideline-driven evidence generation, and collaborators have started to share potential opportunities in this forum post. We heard more the following guideline-focused opportunities during our Jan. 28 community call. 1) Antithrombotic use post-PCI (Chang Hoon Han & Seng Chan You)
2) Bladder cancer treatment (Asieh Golozar)
3) Rheumatology DMARD infection management (Christopher Mecoli)
4) Anesthesia post-operative care (Oleg Zhuk)
5) Schizophrenia pharmacotherapy (Tatiana Skugarevskaya)
6) Post-herpetic neuralgia management (Masha Khitrun)
7) TPO-RA to manage cytopenias in solid tumors (Vlad Korsik)
8) Diabetic retinopathy screening (Cindy Cai)
9) Osteoporosis management (Chen Yanover and Vanessa Rouach)
10) Melanoma PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor therapy (Bohdan Khilchevskyi)
11) Pediatric vision screening (Michelle Hribar)

Please use this form to share which guideline-driven evidence opportunities you would like to contribute to, and how you plan to contribute to the evidence generation process.

Community Updates

• Each year, workgroup representatives join a February community call to present the mission, objectives and key results for their respective groups. These 2-4 minute presentations are recorded and posted on the Workgroups homepage on OHDSI.org. Please choose a date to sign up for a February date; once a date has at least 10 workgroups, it will be closed.

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OHDSI Social Showcase

Monday — NCO-Calibrated DID Analysis: Addressing Unmeasured Confounding in Difference-in-Differences Analyses Using Negative Control Outcomes Experiments (Dazheng Zhang)
Tuesday — Improving Team Science Through “Thons” Reflections on the April Olympians Community Event (Clair Blacketer, Melanie Philofsky)
Wednesday — Clinically validated line of therapy (LoT) algorithm for patients with metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (mNSCLC) can be implemented using systemic anti-cancer therapy (SACT) in Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP) database (Joana Moreira)
Thursday — Impact of phenotype error adjustment on background incidence of COVID19 vaccine adverse events of special interest (James Weaver)
Friday — End-to-End Implementation of a Workflow for Validating Semantic Mappings and Constructing Ontology Extensions (Jared Houghtaling)

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Clinical Guideline Review

Jan. 21: Clinical Guideline Review/Bridge Training Program Introduction (Kim, Ostropolets, Haynes, Twagirumukiza)

One proposed focus for the OHDSI community is around guideline-driven evidence generation, and collaborators have started to share potential opportunities in this forum post. We heard more about some of these guideline-focused opportunities (obesity, pneumonia, time varying treatment pathways) during our Jan. 21 community call, and we also learned about the BRIDGE Training Program from Marc Twagirumukiza.

Community Updates

• Congratulations to the team of Mitchell Conover, Yasser Albogami, Jill Hardin, Christian Reich, Anna Ostropolets, Patrick Ryan, and the OHDSI Research Network on the recent publication of Glucagon-Like Peptide 1 Receptor Agonists and Chronic Lower Respiratory Disease Among Type 2 Diabetes Patients: Replication and Reliability Assessment Across a Research Network in Pharmacoepidemiology & Drug Safety.

• Congratulations to the team of Karamarie Fecho, Juan J. Garcia, Hong Yi, Griffin Roupe and Ashok Krishnamurthy on the recent publication of FHIR PIT: a geospatial and spatiotemporal data integration pipeline to support subject-level clinical research in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making.

• Congratulations to the team of Gowtham Rao, Azza Shoaibi, Rupa Makadia, Jill Hardin, Joel Swerdel, James Weaver, Erica Voss, Mitchell Conover, Stephen Fortin, Anthony Sena, Chris Knoll, Nigel Hughes, James Gilbert, Clair Blacketer, Alan Andryc, Frank DeFalco, Anthony Molinaro, Jenna Reps, Martijn Schuemie, and Patrick Ryan on the recent publication of CohortDiagnostics: Phenotype evaluation across a network of observational data sources using population-level characterization in PLOS One.

• The CDM Survey subgroup invites colleagues who have or are going to design, develop, and/or implement research surveys and use them with the OMOP CDM to share information about those efforts by completing this survey. Your completion of this 10-15 minute survey will provide information to the CDM workgroup about OMOP utilization among survey research teams. The CDM Survey subgroup is a collaborative effort, led by a team at the National Cancer Institute, to develop standardized approaches and best practices for helping research teams better integrate survey data elements into the OMOP common data model. The survey will remain open through mid-January.

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OHDSI Social Showcase

Monday — Leveraging UDI for Advanced Medical Device Tracking in OMOP-CDM (Seojeong Shin)
Tuesday — OMOP on a Data Lake: Addressing the Critical Need for Scalable Solutions in Healthcare Data Management with OHDSI Tools and AWS Services (Lance Eighme)
Wednesday — Generalizable Approaches for Medical Term Normalization (Jacob Berkowitz)
Thursday — Exploring the interplay between metabolic syndrome and brain volume in depression: Basis for Phenotype-Based Classification (Sujin Gan)
Friday — Quantifying the opioid use disorder crisis: PULSNAR finds nearly 3/4 undiagnosed (Praveen Kumar)

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Bridge Training Program | Community Updates

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Bridge Training Program (Marc Twagirumukiza)

Clinical Guideline Review (Chungsoo Kim, Anna Ostropolets, Kevin Haynes)

Jan. 14: Collaborations for Future Connections

We shared some potential focuses for 2025 during the Jan. 7 community call, and they each require collaboration within the community. During this call, we provided a forum to discuss opportunities, meet new potential collaborators and ideally build connections that can spark this work.

Community Updates

• Congratulations to the team of Melissa Finster, Maxim Moinat and Elham Taghizadeh on the recent publication of ETL: From the German Health Data Lab data formats to the OMOP Common Data Model in PLOS One.

• Congratulations to the team of Martijn Schuemie, Anna Ostropolets, Aleh Zhuk, Uladzislau Korsik, Seung In Seo, Marc Suchard, George Hripcsak and Patrick Ryan on the recent publication of Standardized patient profile review using large language models for case adjudication in observational research in NPJ Digital Medicine.

• Congratulations to the team of Noah Hong, Yeh-Hee Ko, Jeong Hyun Park, Eun Jin Ha, Sung Ho Lee, Kang Min Kim, Hyun-Seung Kang, Jeong Eun Kim, Kwangsoo Kim, and Won-Sang Cho on the recent publication of A common data model for oral anticoagulants-related risk of spontaneous intracranial hemorrhage in the Journal of Clinical Neuroscience.

• Congratulations to the team of Young-Eun Kwon, Shin-Young Ahn, Gang-Jee Ko, Young-Joo Kwon and Ji-Eun Kim on the recent publication of Impact of Uric Acid Levels on Mortality and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Relation to Kidney Function in the Journal of Clinical Medicine.

• Congratulations to the team of Mitchell Conover, Patrick Ryan, Yong Chen, Marc Suchard, George Hripcsak, and Martijn Schuemie on the recent publication of Objective study validity diagnostics: a framework requiring pre-specified, empirical verification to increase trust in the reliability of real-world evidence in JAMIA.

• The next edition of the CBER BEST Seminar Series will be Jan. 15, 2025 at 11 am ET. We are happy to welcome Sonia Hernández-Díaz, MD, DrPH, Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, who will provide a talk on “Emulation of Target Trial on Vaccinations During Pregnancy.” More information and the meeting link are available on the CBER BEST series homepage.

• All videos and slides from the main conference of the 2024 OHDSI Global Symposium are now available on the event homepage. You can also find the 136 posters and software demos from our collaborator showcase. Videos of all the tutorials have also been posted.

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OHDSI Social Showcase

Monday — Lessons from mapping cancer information from European hospitals to ICD-O-3 conditions in OMOP (Lars Halvorsen)
Tuesday — Jackalope Plus Performance: Benchmarking and Competitors (Denys Kaduk)
Wednesday — Trade-offs in the design of explainable prediction models for health care (Aniek Markus)
Thursday — An interactive approach for data exploration and phenotyping in the Data2Evidence platform (Satish Anbazhagan)
Friday — An Active Safety Surveillance Using Real-World Evidence (ASSURE) Approach to Pharmacovigilance Signal Evaluation: The case of infliximab and alternative autoimmune conditions (Kevin Haynes)

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Where Can OHDSI Go In 2025? | Community Updates

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Jan. 7: What Can OHDSI Do Together in 2025? (Ryan)

OHDSI kicked off its 2025 community calls with a session focused on where we can go together over the next 12 months. Patrick Ryan highlighted four focus areas for the community: guideline-driven evidence generation, evidence-driven data standardization, evidence-driven open-source development, and evidence-driven collaborative education. There were details about monthly events, and upcoming clinical/scientific conferences over the next 18 months that can be end goals for dissemination.

Community Updates

• Congratulations to the team of Shuxin Zhang, Ronald Cornet and Nirupama Benis on the recent publication of Cross-Standard Health Data Harmonization using Semantics of Data Elements in Scientific Data.

• Congratulations to the team of Tobias Freyberg Justesen, Adile Orhan, Andreas Weinberger Rosen, Mikail Gögenur, and Ismail Gögenur on the recent publication of Mismatch Repair Status and Surgical Outcomes in Localized Colorectal Cancer: A Nationwide Cohort Study in Annals of Surgery Open.

• Congratulations to the team of Rowdy de Groot, Frank van der Graaff, Daniël van der Doelen, Michiel Luijten, Ronald De Meyer, Hekmat Alrouh, Hedy van Oers, Jacintha Tieskens, Josjan Zijlmans, Meike Bartels, Arne Popma, Nicolette de Keizer, Ronald Cornet, and Tinca Polderman on the recent publication of Implementing Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable (FAIR) Principles in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Research: Mixed Methods Approach in JMIR Mental Health.

• Congratulations to the team of Chen Yanover, Ramit Magen-Rimon, Erica A. Voss, Joel Swerdel, Anna Sheahan, Nathan Hall, Jimyung Park, Rae Woong Park, Kwang Jae Lee, Sung Jae Shin, Seung In Seo, Kyung-Joo Lee, Thomas Falconer, Leonard Haas, Paul Nagy, Mary Grace Bowring, Michael Cook, Steven Miller, Tal El-Hay, Maytal Bivas-Benita, Pinchas Akiva, Yehuda Chowers and Roni Weisshof on the recent publication of Characteristics and Outcomes of Over a Million Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Seven Countries: Multinational Cohort Study and Open Data Resource in Digestive Diseases & Sciences.

• Congratulations to the team of Yu Jeong Lee, Jinmi Kim, Dong Han Yu, Nam Kyung Je and Harin Rhee on the recent publication of Long-term use of proton pump inhibitors was associated with rapid progression to end stage kidney disease in a Korean nationwide study in Scientific Reports.

• Congratulations to the team of Harry-Anton Talvik, Marek Oja, Sirli Tamm, Kerli Mooses, Dage Särg, Marcus Lõo, Õie Renata Siimon, Hendrik Šuvalov, Raivo Kolde, Jaak Vilo, Sulev Reisberg, and Sven Laur on the recent publication of Repeatable process for extracting health data from HL7 CDA documents in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics.

• Congratulations to the team of Anna O. Basile, Anurag Verma, Leigh Anne Tang, Marina Serper, Andrew Scanga, Ava Farrell, Brittney Destin, Rotonya M. Carr, Anuli Anyanwu-Ofili, Gunaretnam Rajagopal, Abraham Krikhely, Marc Bessler, Muredach P. Reilly, Marylyn D. Ritchie, Nicholas P. Tatonetti, and Julia Wattacheril on the recent publication of Rapid identification and phenotyping of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease patients using a machine-based approach in diverse healthcare systems in Clinical and Translational Science.

• Congratulations to the team of Rowdy de Groot, Savannah Glaser, Alexandra Kogan, Stephanie Medlock, Anna Alloni, Matteo Gabetta, Szymon Wilk, Nicolette de Keizer, and Ronald Cornet on the recent publication of ATC-to-RxNorm mappings – A comparison between OHDSI Standardized Vocabularies and UMLS Metathesaurus in the International Journal of Medical Informatics.

• Save The Date! The OHDSI Europe Symposium will be hosted by the OHDSI Belgium Node on 5-7 July 2025 in the “Old Prison” building of Hasselt University in Hasselt, Belgium. Agenda and registration information will be shared when available.

• The latest edition of The Journey Newsletter is now available. The latest edition reflects back on 2024, highlights 10 recent published studies, and includes community updates, the latest collaborator spotlight, OHDSI presentations, and more.

OHDSI Social Showcase

Monday — Institutionalizing data interoperability and the application of common data models in a health data and research center: CIDACS’ experience in Brazil (Valentina Martufi)
Tuesday —Characterizing Phenotype Descriptions in All of Us Publications (Emily Clark)
Wednesday — Fine-Tuning Foundational AI Models to Code Diagnoses from Veterinary Health Records (Mayla R. Boguslav)
Thursday — Brain-penetrant calcium channel blockers for psychiatric use: revisiting the evidence for benefit (David Kern)
Friday —CohortOperations: A Modular Web Tool for Enhanced Cohort Analysis on the OMOP-CDM (Javier Gracia-Tabuenca)

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Where Can OHDSI Go In 2025? | Community Updates