WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING
OHDSI Teams/Email Outage Update; Feb. 3 Community Call Will Be Cancelled
As many of you have experienced, there were two instances in January when a significant portion of the community lost access to both our MS Teams environment and their OHDSI emails. While we continue to work with Microsoft on this issue, the process has taken longer than anticipated.
We recognize this has severely impacted our ability to collaborate. As such, we are going to postpone the Feb. 3 community call to focus on workgroup OKRs because we know many of you were unable to have your latest meetings.
Also, we have extended the deadline for both the plenary and tutorial proposals until Feb. 13. Details on these proposals, as well as the submission links, are available here on the symposium homepage.
WEEKLY WORKING GROUP MEETINGS
Upcoming Workgroup Calls – OHDSI
OHDSI SHOUTOUTS
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.
OHDSI UPDATES
The OHDSI community is launching the fifth edition of Phenotype Phebruary, a month-long global initiative dedicated to advancing the way we build and evaluate clinical phenotypes. This year’s event centers on a high-stakes community experiment: a collaborative “Phenotype Challenge” where participants will focus on a single clinical condition. The goal is to move through an end-to-end, iterative development cycle that combines human expertise with cutting-edge tools to establish a gold standard for phenotype definitions within the OMOP Common Data Model. 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. Submissions for the collaborator showcase are due Feb. 6. 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. 13; more details are available on the event homepage.
• 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 first 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.
OHDSI 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)
• The 2026 OHDSI Global Symposium will be held Oct. 20-22 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, N.J.
UPCOMING OHDSI EVENTS
The 2026 OHDSI Europe Symposium will be held April 18-20 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. While registration has not opened yet, the deadline for abstract submissions is Feb. 6, 2026.
• The 2026 OHDSI Global Symposium will be held Oct. 20-22 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, N.J.
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