Oct. 8, 2024
The Oct. 8 community call featured talks on recent advances in methodological research in the OHDSI community, as well as an update on the 2024-25 Vocabulary Roadmap. We were excited to welcome three community leaders to share presentations on methods research:
Negative controls in vaccine research • Yong Chen, Professor of Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvani
New diagnostics for covariate balance in small samples • George Hripcsak, Vivian Beaumont Allen Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University
Performance of the concurrent comparator design • Shounak Chattopadhyay, Postdoctoral Scholar, UCLA
Community Updates
• During the Oct. 15 community call, Collaborator Showcase presenters can use 60 seconds to share why OHDSI Symposium attendees should visit their poster or software demo. We want to hear from you; please sign up using this brief form or volunteer during the Oct. 15 call.
• 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.
• The latest edition of the Collaborator Spotlight features Yong Chen, Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania. Yong, who has been leading methodological work within the OHDSI community for several years, earned the 2021 OHDSI Titan Award for Methodological Research. He discusses his career journey, recent advances in methods research, how his students use OHDSI in their research, and more.
• The October OHDSI newsletter is now available; it includes community updates and publications links, information on three upcoming in-person events in October, the latest video podcast, and plenty more.
• The 2024 EHDEN Symposium will be held Oct. 10 in Barcelona, and it will include sessions on EHDEN and both Real-World Data and Real-World Evidence, as well as the EHDEN impact on regulatory decision making and the medical product industry. The full agenda is now available.
• 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 — Improving completeness in mapping population based cancer registry data to OMOP CDM by using alternative source fields (Tapio Niemi)
Tuesday — Exploring Embedding Representations for Structured Data in the OMOP CDM (Jorge Cerejo)
Wednesday — Harmonization to the OMOIP CDM of cancer patient data at the Modena Oncology Center (Enrico Calanchi)
Thursday — Developing a Clinical Decision Support System Software Prototype that Assists in the Management of Patients with Self-Harm based on the Use of National Registries Harmonized in OMOP CDM: the PERMANENS Project (Angela Leis)
Friday — Automation of STCM Vocabularies Review for OMOP CDM (Wai Yi Man)
Slides
Chen | Hripcsak | Chattopadhyay | Community Updates
Video Presentations
Negative Controls in Vaccine Research
New Diagnostics for Covariate Balance in Small Samples
Performance of the Concurrent Comparator Design
Vocabulary Roadmap
