OHDSI Europe Community Calls

Welcome to the OHDSI Europe community call, a new meeting that will be held the second Thursday of each month at 1 pm CET. These calls will provide updates around OHDSI Europe, as well as research presentations, community updates, brainstorm sessions, networking opportunities, and plenty more. Newcomers and veterans alike are all invited to this get-together for the OHDSI Europe community.

During the July 2026 Community Call, we completed our OH!-Factor series with the winning pitch from the OHDSI Europe Symposium: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗜𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲: 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗢𝗠𝗢𝗣 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲, presented by Renske Los. Renske challenged us to think beyond the clinical encounter. 𝘞𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘖𝘔𝘖𝘗 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘴 𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴, 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘴? 𝘗𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵-𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴, 𝘴𝘺𝘮𝘱𝘵𝘰𝘮 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘯, 𝘥𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘧𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘳𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘢. Her vision was inspired by several outstanding Collaborator Showcase contributions, and three of those authors joined this Europe Community Call:

📌 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝟰𝟴 – From Lived Experience to Longitudinal Evidence: Designing an OMOP-Compatible Export Layer for Prospective Cancer Patient-Reported Outcomes in Sweden (Máté Horváth) https://lnkd.in/eRWPSt4g

📌 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝟲𝟭 – Experiences with OMOPping Rehabilitation Data: A Unified ETL Strategy for Nine Distinct Clinical Datasets (Themistocles Roustanis) https://lnkd.in/euUJqTtF

📌 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝟵𝟰 – PREPARE for Precision: Patient-level prediction models for nonsurgical thumb base osteoarthritis treatment (Krijn Polder) https://lnkd.in/ev7-88Qt

 

The June 2026 OHDSI Europe community focused on oncological studies. It also provided updates and recent publications from the OHDSI Europe community.

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The May 2026 OHDSI community reflected back on the 2026 Symposium and also provided newcomers an overview on the OHDSI community. It also provided updates and recent publications from the OHDSI Europe community.

Slides
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The 2026 OHDSI Europe Symposium will be held April 18-20 in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and the April Europe Community Call served as a preview of the event. It also provided updates and recent publications from the OHDSI Europe community.

Peter Rijnbeek leads the March 2026 Europe Community Call for a presentation on Operationalizing the European Health Data Space (EDHS): The role of OMOP & OHDSI in secondary use of health data.
 

The first Europe community call of 2026 focuses on TeamPerMed and Umbrella & PREPARE, current European projects using OMOP.

Call Report and Key Takeaways

The Dec. 2025 Europe Community Calls focused on a trio of vocabulary initiatives:

  • Semiautomatic mapping of a national drug terminology to standardised OMOP drug concepts using publicly available supplementary information (Agota Meszaros)
  • Introducing the Belgian vocabulary team (Freija Descamps)
  • On RxNorm Extension and how to a vocab in it (Anna Ostropolets)

Call Report and Key Takeaways

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The Nov. 13 Europe Community Call focused on Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs). It also highlighted recent publications and other updates.

Watch: https://youtu.be/32uPzi2p2YI.

The Oct. 9, 2025, Europe Community Call introduced the newest National Nodes to the community. It also highlighted recent publications, Titan Award winners, and more.

Watch: https://youtu.be/Uo-NX-RTlG8

The Sept. 11, 2025, Europe Community Call featured updates on the DARWIN EU Initiative, highlighted recent publications, and introduced the goal for the monthly Europe Community Call.