WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING

Please join our March 12 (11 am ET) community call for a session on March Madness & April Olympians.

March Madness: Join the community fun as we use the newly released OHDSI Standardized Vocabularies to create and play an OHDSI-style bracket and see who will cut down the nets at the end! April Olympians: April will focus on CDM and Themis conventions and will feature different forms of activities and trainings during our monthly community calls. Melanie Philofsky and Clair Blacketer will provide an introduction to the April Olympians effort.

Everybody is invited. Calendar invites went out last week. If you did not receive one, please use this link to join the meeting. All recordings from these weekly calls are available within our Teams environment and will be posted on both our YouTube page and our OHDSI.org Community Calls page.

WEEKLY WORKING GROUP MEETINGS

Upcoming Workgroup Calls – OHDSI

OHDSI UPDATES

• The 2024 OHDSI Global Symposium will be held Oct. 22-24 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ. The tentative symposium format will feature tutorials and community collaboration on Oct. 22, plenaries and the collaborator showcase on Oct. 23, and workgroup activities on Oct. 24 along with the showcase. Registration has not opened yet.

• Registration is now OPEN for the 2024 OHDSI Europe Symposium, which will be held June 1-3 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. There will be tutorials and workshops June 1-2 at the Erasmus University Medical Center, and the main conference will be held Monday, June 3, on the Steam Ship Rotterdam. Please visit the event homepage for more information and registration details.

• Evanette Burrows shared an update about a new release to the ETL-Synthea package v2.0.0 that went live on Feb. 26. The package has been expanded to support current versions of Synthea (v3.1 and v3.2) and has a handful of other improvements and contributions from the community. Full release details are available here.

• Atif Adam announced an opportunity for collaboration around a new network study focusing on Acute ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI). The study intends to deepen the understanding of STEMI patients’ characteristics and identify incidence rates across multiple real-world data datasets. More details and information on how to get involved are available within the forum post.

• James Weaver, an Associate Director of Observational Health Data Analytics at Janssen Research and Development, will speak during a panel session on Current Approaches for Distributed Analysis on Thursday, March 14 (1 pm ET) during a Health Data Research Network Canada event. This will be a virtual conversation; more information and a registration link are available here.

• Research from the 2023 Global Symposium Collaborator Showcase can be viewed on the Global Symposium Showcase page. Research 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 — Bladder cancer – a quality benchmark utilizing FHIR and OMOP (Andries Clinckaert)

Tuesday — Using MONAI Pre-Trained Models for Colorectal Tissue Type Phenotyping: A Feasibility Study to Integrate Deep Learning Model Results using the Medical Extension OMOP CDM (Shijia Zhang)

Wednesday — A tool for empirically identifying and reviewing candidate comparators for Pharmacoepidemiological studies (Justin Bohn)

Thursday — The necessity of validity diagnostics when drawing causal inferences from observational data (James Weaver)

Friday — Identification of HIV positive individuals across multiple datasets (Craig Mayer)

Job Openings

• Alex Asiimwe shared an opening for a Director, RWE – Data Science at Gilead. As a RWE Data Scientist (OMOP/OHDSI), you will play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and maintaining healthcare data solutions using the OHDSI framework. This position offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to advancements in health informatics and research.

• Linying Zhang shared openings for both a Postdoc and a Senior Data Analyst at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Successful candidates will work on causal machine learning and responsible AI for reliable real-world evidence generation. Interested applicants should send a CV and cover letter to linyingz@wustl.edu.

• Nathan Hall introduced a summer internship at Johnson & Johnson for an Epidemiology UX/Web Design Intern. This internship provides a unique opportunity to merge design principles with epidemiological research, contributing to the advancement of real-world evidence applications. In this role, you will have the opportunity to blend your passion for user experience (UX) and web design with the field of epidemiology, contributing to impactful projects that enhance our ability to derive insights from health data. More information and an application link are available here.

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WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING

Please join our next community call on Tuesday, March 5 (11 am ET) for a session focused on the latest vocabulary release, which was shared 29Feb2024, as well as a brief wrap-up discussion around Phenotype Phebruary 2024. The main session will be driven by leaders from our vocabulary team:

• Alexander Davydov, Director, Lead of Medical Ontologies • Odysseus Data Services

• Oleg Zhuk, Vocabulary Technical Lead • Odysseus Data Services

• Anna Ostropolets, Associate Director, Observational Health Data Analytics • Janssen Research and Development

• Christian Reich, CEO • Odysseus Data Services

Everybody is invited. Calendar invites went out last week. If you did not receive one, please use this link to join the meeting. All recordings from these weekly calls are available within our Teams environment and will be posted on both our YouTube page and our OHDSI.org Community Calls page.

WEEKLY WORKING GROUP MEETINGS

Upcoming Workgroup Calls – OHDSI

OHDSI SHOUTOUTS

Congratulations to the team of Aniek F Markus, Peter R Rijnbeek, Jan A Kors, Edward Burn, Talita Duarte-Salles, Markus Haug, Chungsoo Kim, Raivo Kolde, Youngsoo Lee, Hae-Sim Park, Rae Woong Park, Daniel Prieto-Alhambra, Carlen Reyes, Jerry A Krishnan, Guy G Brusselle, and Katia MC Verhamme on the publication of Real-world treatment trajectories of adults with newly diagnosed asthma or COPD in BMJ Open Respiratory Research.

• Congratulations to the team of Behzad Naderalvojoud, Catherine Curtin, Chen Yanover, Tal El-Hay, Byungjin Choi, Rae Woong Park, Javier Gracia Tabuenca, Mary Pat Reeve, Thomas Falconer, Keith Humphreys, Steven M Asch, and Tina Hernandez-Boussard on the publication of Towards global model generalizability: independent cross-site feature evaluation for patient-level risk prediction models using the OHDSI network in JAMIA.

• Congratulations to the team of Star Liu, Asieh Golozar, Nathan Buesgens, Jody-Ann McLeggon, Adam Black, and Paul Nagy on the publication of A framework for understanding an open scientific community using automated harvesting of public artifacts in JAMIA Open.

• Congratulations to the team of Yi Chai, Kenneth K. C. Man, Hao Luo, Carmen Olga Torre, Yun Kwok Wing, Joseph F. Hayes, David P. J. Osborn, Wing Chung Chang, Xiaoyu Lin, Can Yin, Esther W. Chan, Ivan C. H. Lam, Stephen Fortin, David M. Kern, Dong Yun Lee, Rae Woong Park, Jae-Won Jang, Jing Li, Sarah Seager, Wallis C. Y. Lau, and Ian C. K. Wong on the publication of Incidence of mental health diagnoses during the COVID-19 pandemic: a multinational network study in Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences.

• Congratulations to the team of Quentin Marcou, Laure Berti-Equille, and Noël Novelli on the publication of Creating a computer assisted ICD coding system: Performance metric choice and use of the ICD hierarchy in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics.

OHDSI UPDATES

• The 2024 OHDSI Global Symposium will be held Oct. 22-24 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ. The tentative symposium format will feature tutorials and collaboration on Oct. 22, plenaries and the collaborator showcase on Oct. 23, and workgroup activities on Oct. 24 a long with another hour of our esteemed showcase. Registration is due to open at the end of March for both the main symposium and the tutorials (separate links).

• Registration is now OPEN for the 2024 OHDSI Europe Symposium, which will be held June 1-3 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. There will be tutorials and workshops June 1-2 at the Erasmus University Medical Center, and the main conference will be held Monday, June 3, on the Steam Ship Rotterdam. Please visit the event homepage for more information and registration details.

• Ross Williams is a scientific researcher working in the group of Dr. Peter Rijnbeek at Erasmus MC, where he is part of the Health Data Science group. His main focus is creating tools and analysis methods to develop personalised medical risk prediction. His specific areas of interest are on the external validation of prediction models, net benefit assessment and techniques for temporal health data analysis. He co-leads both the Patient Level Prediction workgroup and the Early-Stage Researcher workgroup. Ross discusses his career journey, how observational data impacts prediction models, the opportunities for junior researchers in OHDSI, and plenty more in the latest edition of the Collaborator Spotlight.

• The latest edition of the OHDSI newsletter is now available. It includes links to all workgroup OKR presentations from last month, as well as updates from Phenotype Phebruary. It also includes the monthly video podcast, 11 February publications, a new Collaborator Spotlight, and more. If you don’t receive the monthly newsletter in your inbox, please subscribe here.

• James Weaver, an Associate Director of Observational Health Data Analytics at Janssen Research and Development, will speak during a panel session on Current Approaches for Distributed Analysis on Thursday, March 14 (1 pm ET) during a Health Data Research Network Canada event. This will be a virtual conversation; more information and a registration link are available here.

• Research from the 2023 Global Symposium Collaborator Showcase can be viewed on the Global Symposium Showcase page. Research 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 — Implementing a common data model in ophthalmology: Comparison of general eye examination mapping to standard OMOP concepts across two major EHR systems (Justin Quon)

Tuesday — Measuring Study Potential Through the Use of Data Diagnostics (Clair Blacketer)

Wednesday — Utilizing Graph Embeddings for Multiple Sclerosis Disease Modifying Therapy Adverse Events (Jason Patterson)

Thursday — Comorbidity Co-occurrence in Women with Endometriosis: A Retrospective Matched Cohort Study (Tamar Zelovich)

Friday — Ulysses: Introducing a workflow R package for assisting in the development of OHDSI studies (Martin Lavallee)

Job Openings

• Alex Asiimwe shared three openings at Gilead that could be of interest to OHDSI collaborators. There are openings for a Director, RWE – Data Science, a Director, Data Acquisition, and a Senior Director, Head of Data Office. You can learn more about each position and apply using the links above.

• Linying Zhang shared openings for both a Postdoc and a Senior Data Analyst at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Successful candidates will work on causal machine learning and responsible AI for reliable real-world evidence generation. Interested applicants should send a CV and cover letter to linyingz@wustl.edu.

• Nathan Hall introduced a summer internship at Johnson & Johnson for an Epidemiology UX/Web Design Intern. This internship provides a unique opportunity to merge design principles with epidemiological research, contributing to the advancement of real-world evidence applications. In this role, you will have the opportunity to blend your passion for user experience (UX) and web design with the field of epidemiology, contributing to impactful projects that enhance our ability to derive insights from health data. More information and an application link are available here.

• There is an opening for an Epidemiology Graduate Intern at Johnson & Johnson. Among the responsibilities for this remote position are assisting in managing epidemiologic studies and literature reviews to characterize incidence, prevalence, risk factors, and associated comorbidities and treatment patterns for lung, head, and neck cancers across interventional oncology, contributing to the development of protocols for analyzing real-world data cohorts, such as SEER Medicare, and conducting quantitative analyses using both public and private data sources. More information and an application link are available here.

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WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING

Please join our next community call on Tuesday, Feb. 27 (11 am ET) for our fourth set of updates from both our OHDSI workgroups and the Phenotype Phebruary leadership team. Workgroups will share their 2024 Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), and then we will hear about findings throughout Phenotype Phebruary, with an emphasis on Week 4 focused phenotype, pulmonary arterial hypertension.

The workgroups that we will hear from on Tuesday are FHIR + OMOP, Health Equity, the Africa Chapter, CDM Vocabulary, Electronic Animal Health Records, Phenotype Development & Evaluation, Dentistry, Medical Devices, Medical Imaging, GIS – Geographic Information System, and Clinical Trials.

Everybody is invited. Calendar invites went out last week. If you did not receive one, please use this link to join the meeting. All recordings from these weekly calls are available within our Teams environment and will be posted on both our YouTube page and our OHDSI.org Community Calls page.

WEEKLY WORKING GROUP MEETINGS

Upcoming Workgroup Calls – OHDSI

OHDSI SHOUTOUTS

Community Updates

• Congratulations to the team of Christine Mary Hallinan, Roger Ward, Graeme K Hart, Clair Sullivan, Nicole Pratt, Ashley Ng, Daniel Capurro, Anton Van Der Vegt, Siaw-Teng Liaw, Oliver Daly, Blanca Gallego Luxan, David Bunker and Douglas Boyle on the publication of Seamless EMR data access: Integrated governance, digital health and the OMOP-CDM in BMJ Health & Care Informatics.

OHDSI UPDATES

• The 2024 OHDSI Global Symposium will be held Oct. 22-24 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ. The tentative symposium format will feature tutorials and workshops on Oct. 22, the main conference on Oct. 23, and workgroup activities on Oct. 24. Registration has not opened yet.

• Registration is now OPEN for the 2024 OHDSI Europe Symposium, which will be held June 1-3 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. There will be tutorials and workshops June 1-2 at the Erasmus University Medical Center, and the main conference will be held Monday, June 3, on the Steam Ship Rotterdam. Please visit the event homepage for more information and registration details.

• Henrik John recently announced a new network study that he is leading with Chungsoo Kim, Jenna Reps and Egill Fridgeirsson on “Deep Learning Comparison.” The aim is to assess the value of deep learning methods over conventional methods for the development of clinical prediction models. The specific diseases under consideration are dementia in individuals over titi, lung cancer in those over 4ti, and bipolar disorder in patients misdiagnosed with major depressive disorder. If you would like to join this effort, please read this forum post for more information and reach out to the study leads by March 1.

• James Weaver, an Associate Director of Observational Health Data Analytics at Janssen Research and Development, will speak during a panel session on Current Approaches for Distributed Analysis on Thursday, March 14 (1 pm ET) during a Health Data Research Network Canada event. This will be a virtual conversation; more information and a registration link are available here.

• Under the leadership of Azza Shoaibi, Anna Ostropolets, Gowtham Rao and James Weaver, Phenotype Phebruary 2024 focuses on assessing consistency in phenotype definition components, phenotype representation structure, and phenotype validation methods. The month-long activity empowers OHDSI collaborators to engage with each other while advancing the science of phenotyping and gaining education and training around phenotype development and evaluation. You can check out the event homepage here.

• Research from the 2023 Global Symposium Collaborator Showcase can be viewed on the Global Symposium Showcase page. Research 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 — Brazilian administrative data for real-world research: a deterministic linkage procedure and OMOP CDM harmonization (Jessica Mayumi Maruyama)

Tuesday — Estimating model performance on external data sources from their summary statistics: a real-world benchmark (Tal El-Hay)

Wednesday — Harmonization of OMOP vaccine-related vocabularies through the Vaccine Ontology (Yuanyi Pan)

Thursday — OHDSI on Databricks: A Complete Guide to Implementing OHDSI on Databricks (John Gresh)

Friday — Antihypertensive medication use in pregnancy: A pilot OHDSI network analysis in electronic health record data (Stephanie Leonard)

Job Openings

• Alex Asiimwe shared three openings at Gilead that could be of interest to OHDSI collaborators. There are openings for a Director, RWE – Data Science, a Director, Data Acquisition, and a Senior Director, Head of Data Office. You can learn more about each position and apply using the links above.

• Linying Zhang shared openings for both a Postdoc and a Senior Data Analyst at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Successful candidates will work on causal machine learning and responsible AI for reliable real-world evidence generation. Interested applicants should send a CV and cover letter to linyingz@wustl.edu.

• Nathan Hall introduced a summer internship at Johnson & Johnson for an Epidemiology UX/Web Design Intern. This internship provides a unique opportunity to merge design principles with epidemiological research, contributing to the advancement of real-world evidence applications. In this role, you will have the opportunity to blend your passion for user experience (UX) and web design with the field of epidemiology, contributing to impactful projects that enhance our ability to derive insights from health data. More information and an application link are available here.

• There is an opening for an Epidemiology Graduate Intern at Johnson & Johnson. Among the responsibilities for this remote position are assisting in managing epidemiologic studies and literature reviews to characterize incidence, prevalence, risk factors, and associated comorbidities and treatment patterns for lung, head, and neck cancers across interventional oncology, contributing to the development of protocols for analyzing real-world data cohorts, such as SEER Medicare, and conducting quantitative analyses using both public and private data sources. More information and an application link are available here.

• The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill CTSA is hiring a Research Informatics Specialist. This is a remote position (US only, with mostly East Coast hours). This person will join a skilled and highly collaborative team of data analysts, software developers, and data scientists within our CTSA. The core purpose of this position is to support the All of Us Center for Linkage and Acquisition of Data project. We are looking for folks with SQL and health care and/or claims data experience, especially OMOP.

• There is an opening for a Data Steward position at the EBMT. Among the responsibilities is the design, implementation and testing of new data collection processes including data collection forms (DCFs) development, as well as the mapping of new items from DCFs to the OMOP CDM.

OHDSI MSTEAMS

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Please continue to collaborate in our MS Teams environment, check out the OHDSI website and forums , and follow us on all platforms, including Twitter and LinkedIn to get continued updates and information on everything happening in our community

WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING

Please join our next community call on Tuesday, Feb. 20 (11 am ET) for our third set of updates from both our OHDSI workgroups and the Phenotype Phebruary leadership team. Workgroups will share their 2024 Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), and then we will hear about the third week of work in Phenotype Phebruary, with an emphasis on Week 3 focused phenotype, major depressive disorder.

The workgroups that we will hear from on Tuesday are Themis, Healthcare Systems, Generative AI and Analytics in Healthcare (GAIA), NLP, Oncology, Vaccine Vocabulary, Patient-Level Prediction, ATLAS, Open Source Community, and Psychiatry.

Everybody is invited. Calendar invites went out last week. If you did not receive one, please use this link to join the meeting. All recordings from these weekly calls are available within our Teams environment and will be posted on both our YouTube page and our OHDSI.org Community Calls page.

WEEKLY WORKING GROUP MEETINGS

Upcoming Workgroup Calls – OHDSI

OHDSI SHOUTOUTS

Congratulations to the team of Martin Boeker, Daniela Zöller, Romina Blasini, Philipp Macho, Sven Helfer, Max Behrens, Hans-Ulrich Prokosch and Christian Gulden on the publication of Effectiveness of IT-supported patient recruitment: study protocol for an interrupted time series study at ten German university hospitals in Trials.

Congratulations to the team of Moshe Zisser and Dvir Aran on the publication of Transformer-based time-to-event prediction for chronic kidney disease deterioration in JAMIA.

OHDSI UPDATES

Registration is now OPEN for the 2024 OHDSI Europe Symposium, which will be held June 1-3 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. There will be tutorials and workshops June 1-2 at the Erasmus University Medical Center, and the main conference will be held Monday, June 3, on the Steam Ship Rotterdam. Please visit the event homepage for more information and registration details.

• Henrik John recently announced a new network study that he is leading with Chungsoo Kim, Jenna Reps and Egill Fridgeirsson on “Deep Learning Comparison.” The aim is to assess the value of deep learning methods over conventional methods for the development of clinical prediction models. The specific diseases under consideration are dementia in individuals over titi, lung cancer in those over 4ti, and bipolar disorder in patients misdiagnosed with major depressive disorder. If you would like to join this effort, please read this forum post for more information and reach out to the study leads by March 1.

• James Weaver, an Associate Director of Observational Health Data Analytics at Janssen Research and Development, will speak during a panel session on Current Approaches for Distributed Analysis on Thursday, March 14 (1 pm ET) during a Health Data Research Network Canada event. This will be a virtual conversation; more information and a registration link are available here.

• Under the leadership of Azza Shoaibi, Anna Ostropolets, Gowtham Rao and James Weaver, Phenotype Phebruary 2024 focuses on assessing consistency in phenotype definition components, phenotype representation structure, and phenotype validation methods. The month-long activity empowers OHDSI collaborators to engage with each other while advancing the science of phenotyping and gaining education and training around phenotype development and evaluation. You can check out the event homepage here.

• Research from the 2023 Global Symposium Collaborator Showcase can be viewed on the Global Symposium Showcase page. Research 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 — Challenges and opportunities in adopting OMOP-CDM in Brazilian healthcare: a report from Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein (Maria Abrahao)

Tuesday — Developing a pregnancy algorithm in ATLAS: Applying start date offset (Rupa Makadia)

Wednesday — Creating parsimonious patient-level prediction models using feature selection (Aniek Markus)

Thursday — From Complexity to Clarity: Reproducible and Scalable Phenotype Development and application of LLM in a support role (Asieh Golozar)

Friday — Establishing and Operating the OHDSI Dentistry Workgroup: A Model for Other Disciplines (Danielle Boyce)

Job Openings

• Alex Asiimwe shared three openings at Gilead that could be of interest to OHDSI collaborators. There are openings for a Director, RWE – Data Science, a Director, Data Acquisition, and a Senior Director, Head of Data Office. You can learn more about each position and apply using the links above.

• Linying Zhang shared openings for both a Postdoc and a Senior Data Analyst at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Successful candidates will work on causal machine learning and responsible AI for reliable real-world evidence generation. Interested applicants should send a CV and cover letter to linyingz@wustl.edu.

• Nathan Hall introduced a summer internship at Johnson & Johnson for an Epidemiology UX/Web Design Intern. This internship provides a unique opportunity to merge design principles with epidemiological research, contributing to the advancement of real-world evidence applications. In this role, you will have the opportunity to blend your passion for user experience (UX) and web design with the field of epidemiology, contributing to impactful projects that enhance our ability to derive insights from health data. More information and an application link are available here.

• There is an opening for an Epidemiology Graduate Intern at Johnson & Johnson. Among the responsibilities for this remote position are assisting in managing epidemiologic studies and literature reviews to characterize incidence, prevalence, risk factors, and associated comorbidities and treatment patterns for lung, head, and neck cancers across interventional oncology, contributing to the development of protocols for analyzing real-world data cohorts, such as SEER Medicare, and conducting quantitative analyses using both public and private data sources. More information and an application link are available here.

• The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill CTSA is hiring a Research Informatics Specialist. This is a remote position (US only, with mostly East Coast hours). This person will join a skilled and highly collaborative team of data analysts, software developers, and data scientists within our CTSA. The core purpose of this position is to support the All of Us Center for Linkage and Acquisition of Data project. We are looking for folks with SQL and health care and/or claims data experience, especially OMOP.

• There is an opening for a Data Steward position at the EBMT. Among the responsibilities is the design, implementation and testing of new data collection processes including data collection forms (DCFs) development, as well as the mapping of new items from DCFs to the OMOP CDM.

OHDSI MSTEAMS

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Please continue to collaborate in our MS Teams environment, check out the OHDSI website and forums , and follow us on all platforms, including Twitter and LinkedIn to get continued updates and information on everything happening in our community

WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING

Please join our next community call on Tuesday, Feb. 13 (11 am ET) for our second set of updates from both our OHDSI workgroups and the Phenotype Phebruary leadership team. Workgroups will share their 2024 Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), and then we will hear about the second week of work in Phenotype Phebruary, with an emphasis on this week’s focused phenotype, non-small cell and small cell lung cancer.

Among the workgroups that we will hear from on Tuesday are Common Data Model, Network Data Quality, Asia-Pacific (APAC), Industry, Eye Care & Vision Research, and Surgery & Perioperative Medicine.

Everybody is invited. Calendar invites went out last week. If you did not receive one, please use this link to join the meeting. All recordings from these weekly calls are available within our Teams environment and will be posted on both our YouTube page and our OHDSI.org Community Calls page.

WEEKLY WORKING GROUP MEETINGS

Upcoming Workgroup Calls – OHDSI

OHDSI SHOUTOUTS

Congratulations to the team of Woo Yeon Park, Kyulee Jeon, Teri Sippel Schmidt, Haridimos Kondylakis, Tarik Alkasab, Blake E Dewey, Seng Chan You, and Paul Nagy on the publication of Development of Medical Imaging Data Standardization for Imaging-Based Observational Research: OMOP Common Data Model Extension in the Journal of Imaging Informatics in Medicine.

Congratulations to the team of Xinyuan Zhang, Yixue Feng, Fang Li, Jin Ding, Danyal Tahseen, Ezekiel Hinojosa, Yong Chen, and Cui Tao on the publication of Evaluating MedDRA-to-ICD terminology mappings in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making.

OHDSI UPDATES

If you are interested in joining the Scientific Review Committee for the 2024 Global Symposium, you can sign up now. The deadline to sign up is Feb. 16, and the first meeting will be held March 7.

• James Weaver, an Associate Director of Observational Health Data Analytics at Janssen Research and Development, will speak during a panel session on Current Approaches for Distributed Analysis on Thursday, March 14 (1 pm ET) during a Health Data Research Network Canada event. This will be a virtual conversation; more information and a registration link are available here.

• Under the leadership of Azza Shoaibi, Anna Ostropolets, Gowtham Rao and James Weaver, Phenotype Phebruary 2024 focuses on assessing consistency in phenotype definition components, phenotype representation structure, and phenotype validation methods. The month-long activity empowers OHDSI collaborators to engage with each other while advancing the science of phenotyping and gaining education and training around phenotype development and evaluation. You can check out the event homepage here.

• Research from the 2023 Global Symposium Collaborator Showcase can be viewed on the Global Symposium Showcase page. Research 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 — Toward a General-Purpose Geography-Focused OHDSI Infrastructure (Kyle Zollo-Venecek)

Tuesday — The Development and Validation of an Individual-Level Socioeconomic Deprivation Index (ISDI) with OMOP in the NIH’s All of Us Data Network (Nripendra Acharya)

Wednesday — Incorporating measurement values into patient-level prediction with missing entries: a feasibility study (Xiaoyu Wang)

Thursday — The Use of the Julia Programming Language for Global Health Informatics and Observational Health Research (Jacob Zelko)

Friday — Analyzing a Tabloid Headline with Real-World Data: A Summer Intern’s Investigation (Delia Harms)

Job Openings

• Alex Asiimwe shared three openings at Gilead that could be of interest to OHDSI collaborators. There are openings for a Director, RWE – Data Science, a Director, Data Acquisition, and a Senior Director, Head of Data Office. You can learn more about each position and apply using the links above.

• Linying Zhang shared openings for both a Postdoc and a Senior Data Analyst at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Successful candidates will work on causal machine learning and responsible AI for reliable real-world evidence generation. Interested applicants should send a CV and cover letter to linyingz@wustl.edu.

• Nathan Hall introduced a summer internship at Johnson & Johnson for an Epidemiology UX/Web Design Intern. This internship provides a unique opportunity to merge design principles with epidemiological research, contributing to the advancement of real-world evidence applications. In this role, you will have the opportunity to blend your passion for user experience (UX) and web design with the field of epidemiology, contributing to impactful projects that enhance our ability to derive insights from health data. More information and an application link are available here.

• The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill CTSA is hiring a Research Informatics Specialist. This is a remote position (US only, with mostly East Coast hours). This person will join a skilled and highly collaborative team of data analysts, software developers, and data scientists within our CTSA. The core purpose of this position is to support the All of Us Center for Linkage and Acquisition of Data project. We are looking for folks with SQL and health care and/or claims data experience, especially OMOP.

• There is an opening for a Data Steward position at the EBMT. Among the responsibilities is the design, implementation and testing of new data collection processes including data collection forms (DCFs) development, as well as the mapping of new items from DCFs to the OMOP CDM.

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WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING

Please join our next community call on Tuesday, Feb. 6 (11 am ET) for our first set of updates from both our OHDSI workgroups and the Phenotype Phebruary leadership team. Workgroups will share their 2024 Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), and then we will hear about the first week of work in Phenotype Phebruary, with an emphasis on the first focused phenotype, Alzheimer’s.

Among the workgroups that we will hear from on Tuesday are Methods Research, HADES, Perinatal and Reproductive Health, Registry, and the Steering Group.

Everybody is invited. Calendar invites went out last week. If you did not receive one, please use this link to join the meeting. All recordings from these weekly calls are available within our Teams environment and will be posted on both our YouTube page and our OHDSI.org Community Calls page.

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OHDSI UPDATES

• If you are interested in joining the Scientific Review Committee for the 2024 Global Symposium, you can sign up now. The first meeting for the Scientific Review Committee will be held March 7.

• Collaborators from both the Columbia University Department of Biomedical Informatics and the Johnson & Johnson Observational Health Data Analytics held a three-day studyathon this past weekend with a focus on women’s health initiatives, specifically endometriosis and polycystic ovary syndrome.

• Kerry Goetz is the Associate Director for the National Eye Institute’s Office of Data Science and Health Informatics at the US National Institutes of Health. In this capacity she is responsible for advancing data management and sharing strategies to make NEI data FAIR (Fully AI-Ready & Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable). Kerry co-leads the Eye Care and Vision Research Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics Working Group. She discusses her career journey, evidence gaps around vision research, how OHDSI impacts her PhD journey, and more in the latest collaborator spotlight.

• The latest edition of The Journey newsletter is now available. It includes details on Phenotype Phebruary, reflections on where OHDSI can go together in 2024, the latest OHDSI videocast, and more community updates. It also includes links to 17 published studies that came out of the OHDSI community in January. If you don’t receive the monthly newsletter in your email, you can subscribe here.

• February community calls will focus on both Phenotype Phebruary updates and 2024 OKR announcements by our various workgroups. All workgroup leads/representatives should sign up for one of the upcoming community calls using this link.

• Research from the 2023 Global Symposium Collaborator Showcase can be viewed on the Global Symposium Showcase page. Research 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 — FinOMOP – a population-based data network (Javier Gracia-Tabuenca)

Tuesday — Operational Definition of Adrenal diseases: Enhancing Precision and Reproducibility in Observational Data (Suhyun Kim)

Wednesday — Impact of concomitant use of proton pump inhibitors and clopidogrel on cardiovascular adverse outcomes – A multicenter study using common data model (Seonji Kim)

Thursday — Leveraging the OMOP Common Data Model to Support Distributed Health Equity Research (Sarah Gasman)

Friday — Validating a clinical informatics consulting service using negative control reference sets (Michael Jackson)

HADES Development Updates

• Martijn Schuemie announced the release of CohortMethod 5.2.1. The most important changes are updating the Capr function calls in the vignettes (the old code was no longer working), and CohortMethod now asks if you want to delete old files when you call runCmAnalyses() using an existing folder but different analysis settings than before.

• Ger Inberg announced the release of FeatureExtraction 3.4.0. It contains mainly bugfixes and furthermore the ‘cohortId’ argument in exported functions has been deprecated, one should use ‘cohortIds’ instead.

Job Openings

• Alex Asiimwe shared three openings at Gilead that could be of interest to OHDSI collaborators. There are openings for a Director, RWE – Data Science, a Director, Data Acquisition, and a Senior Director, Head of Data Office. You can learn more about each position and apply using the links above.

• Linying Zhang shared openings for both a Postdoc and a Senior Data Analyst at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Successful candidates will work on causal machine learning and responsible AI for reliable real-world evidence generation. Interested applicants should send a CV and cover letter to linyingz@wustl.edu.

• Nathan Hall introduced a summer internship at Johnson & Johnson for an Epidemiology UX/Web Design Intern. This internship provides a unique opportunity to merge design principles with epidemiological research, contributing to the advancement of real-world evidence applications. In this role, you will have the opportunity to blend your passion for user experience (UX) and web design with the field of epidemiology, contributing to impactful projects that enhance our ability to derive insights from health data. More information and an application link are available here.

• The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill CTSA is hiring a Research Informatics Specialist. This is a remote position (US only, with mostly East Coast hours). This person will join a skilled and highly collaborative team of data analysts, software developers, and data scientists within our CTSA. The core purpose of this position is to support the All of Us Center for Linkage and Acquisition of Data project. We are looking for folks with SQL and health care and/or claims data experience, especially OMOP.

• There is an opening for a Data Steward position at the EBMT. Among the responsibilities is the design, implementation and testing of new data collection processes including data collection forms (DCFs) development, as well as the mapping of new items from DCFs to the OMOP CDM.

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WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING

Please join our next community call on Tuesday, Jan. 30 (11 am ET) for the Introduction to Phenotype Phebruary, a community-wide initiative to both develop and evaluate phenotypes for health outcomes that could be investigated by the community. This will be the third Phenotype Phebruary for OHDSI, and you can check out the results from both our 2022 and 2023 efforts.

We will hear from leaders from the Study-A-Thon during the call:

• Azza Shoaibi – Director, Observational Health Data Analytics, Janssen Research and Development

• Anna Ostropolets – Associate Director, Observational Health Data Analytics, Janssen Research and Development

• Jamie Weaver – Associate Director, Observational Health Data Analytics, Janssen Research and Development

Everybody is invited. Calendar invites went out last week. If you did not receive one, please use this link to join the meeting. All recordings from these weekly calls are available within our Teams environment and will be posted on both our YouTube page and our OHDSI.org Community Calls page.

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OHDSI SHOUTOUTS

• Congratulations to the team of Soobeen Seol, Jimyung Park, Chungsoo Kim, Dong Yun Lee and Rae Woong Park on the publication of RHEA: Real-World Observational Health Data Exploration Application in Volume 310 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics.

• Congratulations to the team of Sujin Gan, Chungsoo Kim, Dong Yun Lee, and Rae Woong Park on the publication of Prediction Models for Readmission Using Home Healthcare Notes and OMOP-CDM in Volume 310 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics.

• Congratulations to the team of Scott L. DuVall, Craig G. Parker, Amanda R. Shields, Patrick R. Alba, Julie A. Lynch, Michael E. Matheny, and Aaron W.C. Kamauu on the publication of Toward Real-World Reproducibility: Verifying Value Sets for Clinical Research in Volume 310 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics.

• Congratulations to the team of Piper Ranallo, Bronwyn Southwell, Christopher Tignanelli, Steven G. Johnson, Richard Krueger, Tess Sevareid-Groth, Adam Carvel, and Genevieve B. Melton on the publication of Promoting Learning Health System Cycles by Optimizing EHR Data Clinical Concept Encoding Processes in Volume 310 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics.

• Congratulations to the team of ChulHyoung Park, Sang Jun Park, Da Yun Lee, Seng Chan You, Kihwang Lee, and Rae Woong Park on the publication of Multi-Institutional Collaborative Research Using Ophthalmic Medical Image Data Standardized by Radiology Common Data Model (R-CDM) in Volume 310 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics.

• Congratulations to the team of Seol Whan Oh, Soo Jeong Ko, Yun Seon Im, Surin Jung, Bo Yeon Choi, Jae Yoon Kim, Sunghyeon Park, Wona Choi, and In Young Choi on the publication of Development of Integrated Data Quality Management System for Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership Common Data Model in Volume 310 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics.

• Congratulations to the team of Martijn Schuemie, Jenna Reps, Adam Black, Frank Defalco, Lee Evans, Egill Fridgeirsson, James P. Gilbert, Chris Knoll, Martin Lavallee, Gowtham A. Rao, Peter Rijnbeek, Katy Sadowski, Anthony Sena, Joel Swerdel, Ross D. Williams, and Marc Suchard on the publication of Health-Analytics Data to Evidence Suite (HADES): Open-Source Software for Observational Research in Volume 310 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics.

• Congratulations to the team of Jiyun Cha, Eun Kyoung Ahn, Young-Heum Yoon, and Man Young Park on the publication of Feasibility of Applying the OMOP Common Data Model to Traditional Eastern Asian Medicine Dataset in Volume 310 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics.

• Congratulations to the team of Najia Ahmadi, Quang Vu Nguyen, Martin Sedlmayr, and Markus Wolfien on the publication of A comparative patient-level prediction study in OMOP CDM: applicative potential and insights from synthetic data in Scientific Reports.

OHDSI UPDATES

• February community calls will focus on both Phenotype Phebruary updates and 2024 OKR announcements by our various workgroups. All workgroup leads/representatives should sign up for one of the upcoming community calls using this link.

• Research from the 2023 Global Symposium Collaborator Showcase can be viewed on the Global Symposium Showcase page. Research 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 — Transforming the Optum® Enriched Oncology module to OMOP CDM (Dmitry Dymshyts)

Tuesday — Community Contribution to the OHDSI Vocabularies: moving towards collaborative shared resource (Oleg Zhuk)

Wednesday — Evaluating confounding adjustment when sample size is small (Martijn Schuemie)

Thursday — Using a Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Approach for Gap Analysis of OHDSI/ATLAS as An Enterprise Self-Service Analytics Platform by Academic Medical Centers (Selvin Soby)

Friday — Risk of aortic aneurysm or dissection following exposure to fluoroquinolone antibiotics (Jack Jenetzki)

HADES Development Updates

• Martijn Schuemie announced the release of SelfControlledCaseSeries 5.1.1. This contains a fix of a minor bug introduced in 5.1.0.

Job Openings

• Linying Zhang shared openings for both a Postdoc and a Senior Data Analyst at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Successful candidates will work on causal machine learning and responsible AI for reliable real-world evidence generation. Interested applicants should send a CV and cover letter to linyingz@wustl.edu.

• The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill CTSA is hiring a Research Informatics Specialist. This is a remote position (US only, with mostly East Coast hours). This person will join a skilled and highly collaborative team of data analysts, software developers, and data scientists within our CTSA. The core purpose of this position is to support the All of Us Center for Linkage and Acquisition of Data project. We are looking for folks with SQL and health care and/or claims data experience, especially OMOP.

• There is an opening for a Data Steward position at the EBMT. Among the responsibilities is the design, implementation and testing of new data collection processes including data collection forms (DCFs) development, as well as the mapping of new items from DCFs to the OM

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WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING

Please join our next community call on Tuesday, Jan. 23 (11 am ET) for a session focused on the recent UK Study-A-Thon, held last November at Saint Hilda’s College. The event focused on use of fluoroquinolones across geographies and over time, as well as on the epidemiology and characterization of rectal prolapse and rectopexy. At the end of an intense week, the team generated three draft manuscripts almost ready for submission, and at least four conference abstracts were in the making.

We will hear from leaders from the Study-A-Thon during the call:

• Daniel Prieto-Alhambra – Professor of Pharmaco- and Device Epidemiology,

University of Oxford

• Katherine Donegan – Head of Epidemiology, MHRA

• Jennifer Lane – NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery, Barts Bone and Joint Health, Queen Mary University of London

• Annika Jodicke – Senior Researcher in Pharmacoepidemiology, University of Oxford

Everybody is invited. Calendar invites went out last week. If you did not receive one, please use this link to join the meeting. All recordings from these weekly calls are available within our Teams environment and will be posted on both our YouTube page and our OHDSI.org Community Calls page.

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OHDSI SHOUTOUTS

• Congratulations to the team of Xu Zuo, Yujia Zhou, Jon Duke, George Hripcsak, Nigam Shah, Juan Banda, Ruth Reeves, Timothy Miller, Lemuel Waitman, Karthik Natarajan, and Hua Xu on the publication of Standardizing Multi-site Clinical Note Titles to LOINC Document Ontology: A Transformer-based Approach in the AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings.

• Congratulations to the team of Huzaifa Khan, Abu Saleh Mohammad Mosa, Vyshnavi Paka, Md Kamruz Zaman Rana, Vasanthi Mandhadi, Soliman Islam, Hua Xu, James C McClay, Sraboni Sarker, Praveen Rao, and Lemuel Waitman on the publication of Mapping Clinical Documents to the Logical Observation Identifiers, Names and Codes (LOINC) Document Ontology using Electronic Health Record Systems Structured Metadata in the AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings.

• Congratulations to the team of Joel Swerdel and Mitchell Conover on the publication of Comparing broad and narrow phenotype algorithms: differences in performance characteristics and immortal time incurred in the Journal of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences.

OHDSI UPDATES

Registration is open for the 2024 Oxford Summer School: Real world evidence using the OMOP Common Data Model, which will be held June 17-21, 2024 at the University of Oxford. The Real World Evidence Summer School will provide participants with the tools and concepts necessary to plan and execute Real World Evidence studies, with a focus on the use of the OMOP common data model. Learn more about the program here.

• Research from the 2023 Global Symposium Collaborator Showcase can be viewed on the Global Symposium Showcase page. Research 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 — Mapping of Critical Care EHR Flowsheet data to the OMOP CDM via SSSOM (Polina Talapova)

Tuesday — Paving the way to estimate daily dose in OMOP CDM for Drug Utilisation Studies in DARWIN EU® (Theresa Burkard)

Wednesday — Generating Synthetic Electronic Health Records in OMOP using GPT (Chao Peng)

Thursday — Comparing concepts extracted from clinical Dutch text to conditions in the structured data (Tom Seinen)

Friday — Finding a constrained number of predictor phenotypes for multiple outcome prediction (Jenna Repa)

Job Openings

There is an opening for a Data Steward position** at the EBMT. Among the responsibilities is the design, implementation and testing of new data collection processes including data collection forms (DCFs) development, as well as the mapping of new items from DCFs to the OMOP CDM.

The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill CTSA are hiring a Research Informatics Specialist! This is a remote position (US only, with mostly East Coast hours).
This person will join a skilled and highly collaborative team of data analysts, software developers, and data scientists within our CTSA. The core purpose of this position is to support the All of Us Center for Linkage and Acquisition of Data project. We are looking for folks with SQL and health care and/or claims data experience, especially OMOP.

Apply here: https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/272920

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WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING

Please join our next community call on Tuesday, Jan. 16 (11 am ET) for a session focused on Connections for Collaborations. Working together is the most efficient way for us to achieve the OHDSI mission, and we will try to facilitate connections — both new and established — with a set of breakout sessions to allow you to discuss your current research, hear about other work happening in the community, and potentially find opportunities to collaborate in the future.

Everybody is invited. Calendar invites went out last week. If you did not receive one, please use this link to join the meeting. All recordings from these weekly calls are available within our Teams environment and will be posted on both our YouTube page and our OHDSI.org Community Calls page.

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OHDSI SHOUTOUTS

Congratulations to the team of Qiong Wu, Jiayi Tong, Bingyu Zhang, Dazheng Zhang, Jiajie Chen, Yuqing Lei, Yiwen Lu, Yudong Wang, Lu Li, Yishan Shen, Jie Xu, L. Charles Bailey, Jiang Bian, Dimitri A. Christakis, Megan L. Fitzgerald, Kathryn Hirabayashi, Ravi Jhaveri, Alka Khaitan, Tianchen Lyu, Suchitra Rao, Hanieh Razzaghi, Hayden T. Schwenk, Fei Wang, Margot I. Gage Witvliet, Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen, Jeffrey S. Morris, Christopher B. Forrest, and Yong Chen on the publication of Real-World Effectiveness of BNT162b2 Against Infection and Severe Diseases in Children and Adolescents in Annals of Internal Medicine.

• Congratulations to the team of Martí Català, Núria Mercadé-Besora, Raivo Kolde, Nhung T H Trinh, Elena Roel, Edward Burn, Trishna Rathod-Mistry, Kristin Kostka, Wai Yi Man, Antonella Delmestri, Prof Hedvig M E Nordeng, Anneli Uusküla, Talita Duarte-Salles, Daniel Prieto-Alhambra, and Annika M Jödicke on the publication of The effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines to prevent long COVID symptoms: staggered cohort study of data from the UK, Spain, and Estonia in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine.

OHDSI UPDATES

• Chungsoo Kim is a PhD candidate in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Ajou University College of Medicine. Since joining OHDSI in 2019, he has participated in and led several research projects at OHDSI. He currently participates in OHDSI working groups, including PatientLevelPrediction and the APAC group. He also served as a tutorial instructor for the 2019 OHDSI Korea International Symposium. Chungsoo discusses his research focuses, his involvement in the OHDSI community, the growth of OHDSI around the Asia-Pacific region, and plenty more in the latest Collaborator Spotlight.

• The latest edition of the OHDSI newsletter is now available, and it includes the December video presentations of the year in review and OHDSI’s first 10 years. It also features community updates, December publications and presentations, and plenty more.

• Research from the 2023 Global Symposium Collaborator Showcase can be viewed on the Global Symposium Showcase page. Research 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 — Development of psychiatric common data model (P-CDM) leveraging psychiatric scales (Dong Yun Lee)

Tuesday — Integrating large language models and real-world evidence into an automated drug indication taxonomy development workflow (Yilu Fang)

Wednesday — Making OHDSI Tooling accessible to Researchers and Students in a HIPAA Compliant Platform (Hannah Morgan-Cooper)

Thursday — Trend in Prescription Pattern in Heart Failure Medications (Septi Melisa)

Friday — PheMIME: An Interactive Web App and Knowledge Base for Phenome-Wide Multi-Institutional Multimorbidity Analysis (Siwei Zhang)

Job Openings

• There is an opening for a Data Steward position at the EBMT. Among the responsibilities is the design, implementation and testing of new data collection processes including data collection forms (DCFs) development, as well as the mapping of new items from DCFs to the OMOP CDM.

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