Oct. 15, 2024
During the final community call before the 2024 Global Symposium, several presenters for the Collaborator Showcase shared why people should visit their posters or software demos. There was also a discussion on symposium logistics; both are available in the video at the bottom of this section.
Community Updates
• Congratulations to the team of Benjamin Readhead, Eyal Klang, Undina Gisladottir, Maxence Vandromme, Li Li, Yakeel T. Quiroz, Joseph F. Arboleda-Velasquez, Joel T. Dudley, Nicholas P. Tatonetti, Benjamin S. Glicksberg and Eric M. Reiman on the recent publication of Heparin treatment is associated with a delayed diagnosis of Alzheimer’s dementia in electronic health records from two large United States health systems in Molecular Psychology.
• The NEI (National Eye Institute) Office of Data Science and Health Informatics is leading a session Oct. 30 at 12 pm highlighting research opportunities through the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) program. Michelle Hribar and Cindy Cai will present their research conducted using the OHDSI network and lead a discussion on future research opportunities it offers for the vision health community. Patrick Ryan will present on the network’s potential for expanding research collaborations. More details and a registration link are available on the event homepage.
• The University of Nottingham is hosting a workshop on “How to be FAIR with Data Standards” Nov. 26-27 in the Nottingham Council House. More information, the two-day agenda and a registration link is available here.
• Registration is now OPEN for the 2024 OHDSI Asia-Pacific (APAC) Symposium, which will be held December 4-8 in Singapore. Regional co-chairs Mengling ‘Mornin’ Feng and Ngial Kee Yuan will lead this event, which has a theme of “When OHDSI Meets with AI.” Please visit the event homepage to register for the main conference and/or the datathon.
2024 Global Symposium
• Registration is open for the 2024 Global Symposium, which will be held Oct. 22-24 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, N.J., USA. The three-day event will feature tutorials on Day 1, plenaries and the collaborator showcase on Day 2, and workgroup activities on Day 3.
OHDSI Social Showcase
• Research from the 2024 Europe 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 — DATOS-CAT: Leveraging OMOP CDM for the standardization, integration and analysis of population-based biomedical data in Catalonia (Judith Martinez-Gonzalez)
Tuesday — Expanding the Episode concept in the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership Common Data Model (OMOP CDM) Oncology Module: drug Order, Cycle, Course, Regimen and Line of Treatment (Andreas Henriksen)
Wednesday — Is it necessary to include SNOMED CT national extensions in ATHENA? Struggling with adaptation from BIFAP data model to OMOP CDM (Juan Ignacio Díaz-Hernández)
Thursday — Deployment approach for first phase of OMOP CDM harmonization and network study participation at CuSL (Lars Halvorsen)
Friday — Trends over time in medicines with suggested shortages in Europe (Marta Pineda-Moncusi)
