May 27, 2025
The Collaborator Showcase is a centerpiece of the OHDSI Global Symposium, celebrating the incredible range of research across our global community. With the July 1 submission deadline just over a month away, many have already begun preparing their work, so we used the May 27 community call as an opportunity to refine your ideas and provide feedback to others. This interactive session included small-group breakouts where people can brainstorm potential submissions, exchange ideas, and connect with fellow collaborators excited to share their work in the #OHDSI2025 Collaborator Showcase.
Prior to the breakouts, Amberlynn Reed, Assistant Director of the Office of Data Science and Health Informatics at the National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, joined the call to honor the winners of the “Expand OHDSI Initiative for Eye Care and Ocular Imaging Challenge,” a $1 million challenge aimed at integrating eye care and ocular imaging data into studies using large healthcare datasets in biomedical research. That video is posted below.
Community Updates
• Congratulations to the team of Sara Bachir, Abishaa Vengadeswaran, Holger Storf, and Dennis Kadioglu on the recent publication of Metadata-Driven Approach to Generalisation of Transformations in ETL Processes in Volume 327 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Intelligent Health Systems – From Technology to Data and Knowledge.
• Congratulations to the team of Elisa Henke, Michele Zoch, Yuan Peng, Mirko Gruhl, and Martin Sedlmayr on the recent publication of From Fragmentation to Integration: Challenges and Solutions for Record Linkage in OMOP CDM in Volume 327 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Intelligent Health Systems – From Technology to Data and Knowledge.
• Congratulations to the team of Alexandros Rekkas, Anastasia Farmaki, Achilleas Chytas, Antonios Lazaridis, Eugenia Gkaliagkousi, Pantelis Natsiavas on the recent publication of Preliminary Results of an OMOP-CDM Based Characterization Study for Rhabdomyolysis in Greece in Volume 327 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Intelligent Health Systems – From Technology to Data and Knowledge.
• Congratulations to the team of Adnan Jouned, Heike Düsseldorf, Florian Katsch, Maryam Jafarpour, and Georg Duftschmid on the recent publication of Comparative Study of ETL Tools for Transforming Healthcare Data to the OMOP Common Data Model (CDM) in Volume 327 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Intelligent Health Systems – From Technology to Data and Knowledge.
• Congratulations to the team of Achim Michel-Backofen, Romina Blasini, Jördis Beck, and Kurt Marquardt on the recent publication of Building a Research Infrastructure with REDCap and FHIR in Volume 327 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Intelligent Health Systems – From Technology to Data and Knowledge.
• Congratulations to the team of Prabath Jayathissa, Lukas Rohatsch, Stefan Sauermann, and Rada Hussein on the recent publication of OMOP-on-FHIR: Integrating the Clinical Data Through FHIR Bundle to OMOP CDM in Volume 327 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Intelligent Health Systems – From Technology to Data and Knowledge.
• Congratulations to the team of Seyedmostafa Sheikhalishahi, Johanna Schwinn, Matthaeus Morhart, Mathias Kaspar, and Ludwig Christian Hinske on the recent publication of Federated Learning for Predictive Analytics in Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation in Volume 327 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Intelligent Health Systems – From Technology to Data and Knowledge.
• Congratulations to the team of Hyesil Jung, Seok Kim, and Sooyoung Yoo on the recent publication of Conversion of Nursing Statements into the OMOP Common Data Model in Volume 327 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Intelligent Health Systems – From Technology to Data and Knowledge.
• Congratulations to the team of Johanna Schwinn, Seyedmostafa Sheikhalishahi, Matthaeus Morhart, Mathias Kaspar, and Ludwig Christian Hinske on the recent publication of A Federated Learning Model for the Prediction of Blood Transfusion in Intensive Care Units in Volume 327 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Intelligent Health Systems – From Technology to Data and Knowledge.
• Congratulations to the team of Angela Leis, Philippe Mortier, Franco Amigo, Madhav Bhargav, Susana Conde, Montserrat Ferrer, Oskar Flygare, Busenur Kizilaslan, Laura Latorre Moreno, Miguel-Angel Mayer, Víctor Pérez Sola, Ana Portillo van Diest, Juan Manuel Ramírez-Anguita, Ferran Sanz, Gemma Vilagut, Jordi Alonso, Lars Mehlum, Ella Arensman, Johan Bjureberg, Manuel Pastor, and Ping Qin on the recent publication of Machine Learning-Based Clinical Decision Support System for Suicide Risk Management: The PERMANENS Project in Volume 327 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Intelligent Health Systems – From Technology to Data and Knowledge.
• Congratulations to the team of Jongchan Park, Hye Jin Chang, Kyung Joo Hwang, Sun Hyung Yum, Chang Eun Park, Joo Hee Kim, and Miran Kim on the recent publication of Association of COX-2 Selectivity in Pain Medication Use with Endometriosis Incidence: Retrospective Cohort Study in the Yonsei Medical Journal.
• Congratulations to the team of Xinyu Zhou, Lovedeep Singh Dhingra, Arya Aminorroaya, Philip Adejumo, and Rohan Khera on the publication of A Novel Sentence Transformer-based Natural Language Processing Approach for Schema Mapping of Electronic Health Records to the OMOP Common Data Model in the AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings Archive.
• Congratulations to the team of Yuanzhen Yue, Ashok Khanal, Tianchu Lyu, Sharon Weissman, and Chen Liang on the publication of EHR Phenotyping Methods for Measuring Treatment Adherence Among People Living With HIV in All of Us: Towards Disparities and Inequalities in HIV Care Continuum in the AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings Archive.
• Congratulations to the team of Xiaojin Li, Yan Huang, Licong Cui, Shiqiang Tao, and Guo-Qiang Zhang on the recent publication of Optimizing Medication Querying Using Ontology-Driven Approach with OMOP: with an application to a large-scale COVID-19 EHR dataset in the AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings Archive.
• The Industry Workgroup is hosting a two-day in-person studyathon, though it may also have a virtual component, May 29-30 in the Gilead Office in Troy Hills, N.J. You can register here, and more information the event is available here.
• The agenda for the 2025 OHDSI Europe Symposium (July 5-7) is available on its main page. The main conference will be held July 7, while tutorials and workshops are set for July 5-6. Registration is open and available on the homepage.
• The ATLAS working group has put together a short survey to help identify who is using ATLAS in our community. If you are not using ATLAS, please also fill in this survey to help identify any barriers for adoption in your company/institution. Additionally, this survey will ask if you’d like to be interviewed for feedback on your usage of ATLAS. Data4Life is working closely with the working group to conduct interviews (~1hr) that will help inform the future direction of the application.
• The OHDSI UK Conference will be held September 26 at the Wellcome headquarters in London. More details and registration information are available here. The deadline to submit your abstract for the conference is Friday, May 9; please use this link to submit.
• The submission deadline for the 2025 Collaborator Showcase is July 1. The showcase will be accepting both posters and software demos, as well as interest in hosting lightning talks. You can submit your brief report(s) here.
• The Columbia Summer School on OHDSI, which will be held July 14-18 at Columbia University, 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. Registration is now open and will be capped at 30 people.
• The next seminar from the Center for Advanced Healthcare Research Informatics (CAHRI) at Tufts Medicine will be held Thursday, May 29, at 9-10 am ET. Georgie Kennedy, Senior Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales and the Ingham Institute, will provide a talk on “Learning from Real-World Cancer Data: Maturing data pipelines to support research that impacts clinical care.” Please contact Marty Alvarez at [email protected] for calendar invite or questions.
Save The Dates
• The 2025 OHDSI Global Symposium will be held Oct. 7-9 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Agenda and registration information will be shared when available. The submission deadline for the 2025 Collaborator Showcase is July 1. The showcase will be accepting both posters and software demos, as well as interest in hosting lightning talks. You can submit your brief report(s) here.
• The OHDSI Europe Symposium will be hosted by the OHDSI Belgium Node on 5-7 July 2025 in the “Old Prison” building of Hasselt University in Hasselt, Belgium. The agenda for all three days is available on the website.
Job Openings
• Johnson & Johnson is hiring a Manager, Observational Health Data Analytics, in its Raritan, N.J., office. This candidate will work within the Global Epidemiology Organization (GEO) and contribute to the successful delivery of observational analyses for clinical characterization, population-level effect estimation, and patient-level prediction, as well as to the design of observational database analysis, including authoring protocol and analysis plans, and other responsibilities. More details and an application link are available here.
OHDSI Social Showcase
• Research from the 2024 APAC 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 — Asian and/or Pacific Islander: Unmasking health disparity within commonly aggregated diverse populations in the US Department of Veterans Affairs (Benjamin Viernes)
Tuesday — Comparative Study of Informer, Prophet, and SARIMA Time Series Forecasting Models for Predicting Pneumonia-Related Hospitalizations and Emergency Room Visits in Elderly Patients Using OMOP-CDM (Seonghwan Shin)
Wednesday — Exploring the interplay between metabolic syndrome and brain volume in depression: Basis for Phenotype-Based Classification (Sujin Gan)
Thursday — Oncology Incidence and Prevalence Trends 2005-2021 within the TMUCRD using OHDSI-validated OMOP CMD Standards (Whitney Burton)
Friday — Evaluating the Conversion of EHR data into OMOP CDM for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Cohort: Insights for Data Consistency (Burin Boonwatcharapai)
Slides
Video Presentation (Eye Care & Ocular Imaging Challenge)
