Feb. 10, 2026
The Feb. 10 community call provided a positive update about the recent challenges to the OHDSI email and MS Teams environment. All collaborators should have either already gotten access back to the OHDSI Teams environment, or they will shortly.
Thank you for your patience during this challenging time.
Community Updates
• Congratulations to the team of Charlotte Vercammen, Antje Heinrich, Christophe Lesimple, Alessia Paglialonga, Jan-Willem A Wasmann, and Mareike Buhl on the recent publication of Data standards in audiology: a mixed-methods exploration of community perspectives and implementation considerations in the International Journal of Audiology.
• Congratulations to the team of Hanieh Razzaghi, Kimberley Dickinson, Kaleigh Wieand, Samuel Boss, Hunter Weidlich, Yungui Huang, Keith Morse, Sujan Kumar Mutyala, Jyothi Priya Alekapatti Nandagopal, Karthik Viswanathan, Christopher B Forrest, and L Charles Bailey on the recent publication of A multifaceted approach to advancing data quality and fitness standards in multi-institutional networks in JAMIA.
• Congratulations to the team of Meredith C B Adams, Robert W Hurley, Karsten Bartels, Matthew L Perkins, Cody Hudson, Umit Topaloglu, J Perren Cobb, Karin Reuter-Rice, Jacqueline C Stocking, Ashish K Khanna on the recent publication of Extending the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP) Common Data Model for Critical Care Medicine: A Framework for Standardizing Complex ICU Data Using the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s Critical Care Data Dictionary (C2D2) in Critical Care Medicine.
• Congratulations to the team of Md Fantacher Islam, Molly Douglas, Jarrod Mosier and Vignesh Subbian on the recent publication of Standardizing Data Elements for Implementation of ICU Liberation Bundle in Applied Clinical Informatics.
• The OHDSI community has delayed the fifth edition of Phenotype Phebruary, a month-long global initiative dedicated to advancing the way we build and evaluate clinical phenotypes, until April due to the recent technical obstacles. This year’s event centers on a high-stakes community experiment: a collaborative “Phenotype Challenge” where participants will focus on a single clinical condition. Learn more about the event, along with how you can get involved!
• Registration is now OPEN for the 2026 Europe Symposium, which will be held April 18-20 in Rotterdam. There were more than 130 submissions to the 2026 Europe Collaborator Showcase. The main conference agenda has been added to the event homepage.
• The 12th annual OHDSI Global Symposium will return to the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, N.J., Oct. 20-22, 2026. All pertinent information will be added to this page when available. Currently, the OHDSI steering group is seeking proposals for both plenaries and tutorials. The deadline for both HAS BEEN EXTENDED to Feb. 20; more details are available on the event homepage.
• Konstantin Iaroshovets, in collaboration with the Vocabulary team, recently shared the OHDSI ATHENA User Survey. Please help the team learn what is requested to make Athena better by filling out this brief survey.
• Discover how the OMOP CDM powers global, large-scale health research in this new “bite-sized” video learning pathway, developed in collaboration with Prof. Daniel Prieto-Alhambra’s team at Oxford University. Designed for researchers and data holders, this course explores how a standardized infrastructure enables reproducible, federated analytics while ensuring regulatory compliance.
• Workgroups will play an important role this year in both the OHDSI community and our community calls, starting with OKR announcements during the last two February sessions. Workgroup leads, please fill out this brief form to let us know when you would like to present OKRs and when/if you plan to lead a session about your workgroup.
• There is a new tutorials homepage on OHDSI.org that hosts all tutorials from past Global/US Symposia, including all six tutorials from the recent Global Symposium.
• The latest Our Journey annual report is now on the OHDSI homepage. This 134-page PDF provides an overview of the OHDSI community, including a look at its collaborators and collaborative activities, its research areas and tools, its work with standardized data and vocabularies, and nearly 900 publications that have come from the community.
• Registration is now open for the 2026 Summer School in Observational Health Data Science & Informatics, AI, and Real World Evidence, which will be held June 22-26 at the Columbia University Department of Biomedical Informatics. Now in its second-year, the Columbia OHDSI Summer School 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.
Upcoming Events
• Registration is now OPEN for the 2026 Europe Symposium, which will be held April 18-20 in Rotterdam. There were more than 130 submissions to the 2026 Europe Collaborator Showcase. The main conference agenda has been added to the event homepage.
• The 2026 OHDSI Global Symposium will be held Oct. 20-22 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, N.J.
Social Showcase
• Research from the 2025 Global Symposium Collaborator Showcase is being shared daily on OHDSI’s LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Instagram and Bluesky social channels as part of the #OHDSISocialShowcase. Below are posters (with study leads) that are featured this week:
Monday — Patient 360: A Strategic Application for the OMOP Common Data Model (Rakesh Babu)
Tuesday — Implementation of the OMOP Common Data Model in a Multi-Site Canadian Network (Lisa Lix)
Wednesday — Prioritization of drug repurposing hypotheses through network classification and electronic health record analysis (Anjali Sivanandan)
Thursday — Demonstrating Applications of ClinicalCharacteristics 1.0.0: Improved Optionality for Enumerating Presence of Clinical Events (Casey Tilton)
Friday — Risk of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Following Maternal Exposure to either Buprenorphine or Methadone Opioid Maintenance Therapy (Elizabeth Howard)
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