Weekly OHDSI Digest-January 31, 2022

WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETINGS

Please join us Tuesday, Feb. 1 (11 am ET) for our next community call, when Patrick Ryan will introduce a community-wide activity he is calling “Phenotype Phebruary.” What’s it all about? How can you get involved? Join us Tuesday and find out!

Everybody is invited. Calendar invites for our 2022 community calls went out two weeks ago. If you did not receive one, please use this link to join the meeting. All recordings from these weekly meetings will be posted on both our main OHDSI Teams tenant and on our OHDSI.org Community Calls page.

WEEKLY WORKING GROUP CALL MEETINGS

Common Data Model WG: Tuesday, Feb 1 at 10 am ET (Meeting Link** )
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the first and third Tuesdays of each month at 10am and 1 pm ET, respectively.

Atlas WG: Wednesday, Feb. 2 at 9 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the first Wednesday of each month at 9 am ET. THIS IS NEW AND RESUMED WG FOR 2022

FHIR and OMOP WG- Digital Quality Measurements Subgroup: Wed. Feb. 2 at 10am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Wednesday at 10 am ET. NOTE: This meeting takes place on Zoom but please check the Teams Work Group for information and updates Zoom Details: Meeting ID: 836 4585 6405 Passcode: 552204

FHIR and OMOP WG – Data Model Harmonization Subgroup: Wednesday, Feb. 2 at 1 pm PST (Western Hemisphere) (Meeting Link) Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the 1st Wednesday of the month at 1 pm PST. NOTE: This meeting takes place on Zoom but please check the Teams Work Group for information and updates (Meeting ID: 912 9699 3374 Passcode: 551570)

Patient-Level Prediction/Pop. Level Estimation WG Meeting (Eastern Hemi): Wednesday, Feb. 2 at 4 pm KST (2AM ET) (Meeting Link)**Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the first Wednesday of every month at 4 pm KST.

Psychiatry WG: Thursday, Feb. 3 at 8 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Thursday at 8 am ET.

Patient-Level Prediction/Pop. Level Estimation WG Meeting (Western Hemi): Thursday, Feb. 3 at 12 pm ET (Meeting Link) Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the first Thursday of every month at 12 pm ET.

FHIR and OMOP WG-Oncology Subgroup: Thursday, Feb. 3 at 12 pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Thursday at 12pm ET

FHIR and OMOP WG-Terminologies Subgroup: Meeting: Thursday, Feb. 3 at 6pm ET (Pacific & Western Time zone participants) : (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Thursday at 6pm ET. NOTE: This meeting takes place on Zoom but please check the Teams Work Group for information and updates (Meeting ID: 685 509 3136 Passcode: 710256)

Clinical Trials WG: Friday, Feb. 4 at 10:30 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Friday at 10:30 am ET.

GIS-Geographic Information System WG GENERAL Meeting: Monday, Feb. 7 at 10 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Monday at 10 am ET.

OHDSI SHOUTOUTS

Congratulations to the team of Ross D. Williams, Aniek F. Markus, Cynthia Yang, Talita Duarte-Salles, Scott L. DuVall, Thomas Falconer, Jitendra Jonnagaddala, Chungsoo Kim, Yeunsook Rho, Andrew E. Williams, Amanda Alberga Machado, Min Ho An, María Aragón, Carlos Areia, Edward Burn, Young Hwa Choi, Iannis Drakos, Maria Tereza Fernandes Abrahão, Sergio Fernández-Bertolín, George Hripcsak, Benjamin Skov Kaas-Hansen, Prasanna L. Kandukuri, Jan A. Kors, Kristin Kostka, Siaw-Teng Liaw, Kristine E. Lynch, Gerardo Machnicki, Michael E. Matheny, Daniel Morales, Fredrik Nyberg, Rae Woong Park, Albert Prats-Uribe, Nicole Pratt, Gowtham Rao, Christian G. Reich, Marcela Rivera, Tom Seinen, Azza Shoaibi, Matthew E. Spotnitz, Ewout W. Steyerberg, Marc A. Suchard, Seng Chan You, Lin Zhang, Lili Zhou, Patrick B. Ryan, Daniel Prieto-Alhambra, Jenna M. Reps and Peter R. Rijnbeek on the publication of “Seek COVER: using a disease proxy to rapidly develop and validate a personalized risk calculator for COVID-19 outcomes in an international network” in BMC Medical Research Methodology.

• Congratulations to the team of Seung-Hwa Lee, Jungchan Park, Rae Woong Park, Seo Jeong Shin, Jinseob Kim, Ji Dong Sung, Dae Jung Kim, and Kwangmo Yang on the publication of “Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System Inhibitors and Risk of Cancer: A Population-Based Cohort Study Using a Common Data Model” in Diagnostics.

OHDSI UPDATES

The most recent Asia-Pacific (APAC) Community Call was held last week, and it featured a CDM Workshop led by Clair Blacketer. This was the first of several planned CDM Workshops for 2022, and video of this session is now available. You can also find a written Q&A from the workshop on our APAC Community page.

• The 2022 OHDSI European Symposium, which will be held at the Steam Ship Rotterdam in The Netherlands, has been moved to the new date of June 24-26. The main symposium will be June 24, and tutorials will be held June 25-26. For more information and the registration link, please visit the symposium homepage.

• The #OHDSISocialShowcase continues this week, as we highlight all the global research presented at the OHDSI Symposium. Here is a look at the research being shared this week on Twitter and LinkedIn; please check them out and share with your own networks!

Monday: Securing OHDSI on AWS for HIPAA and Research Data Management Compliance

Tuesday: Identification of treatment intent from the actual time-to-treatment distribution in prostate cancer patients

Wednesday: The concept of anchoring in observational study design and its influence

Thursday: Summarizing current evidence for the PIONEER study-a-thon: Systematic Literature Review of prostate cancer patients managed with watchful waiting

Friday: LAISDAR – A federated data network to support COVID-19 research in Rwanda
Work groups listed on the OHDSI website: To get a snapshot of the work group meetings for the month, please visit Upcoming Working Group Calls – OHDSI

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**you can also find the document on our website ohdsi.org under “Collaborate with OHDSI in MS Teams.”

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