WEEKLY MEETINGS
Weekly Community Call:
While our work with COVID and vaccine surveillance may be at the forefront of many minds these days, the OHDSI community continues to engage in important efforts around many key areas in healthcare.
This week’s OHDSI Community Call will feature updates from four of our community workgroups. We are fortunate to have leaders from our Medical Devices (Asiyah Lin), Oncology (Shilpa Ratwani), Psychiatry (Dmitry Dymshyts) and Natural Language Processing (Hua Xu) workgroups to provide updates on current work, and to discuss objectives and key results moving forward.
Many of you will have the calendar link in your OHDSI Teams environment. If not, you will need the specific meeting link to access the community call; it will also be posted in the main OHDSI Teams environment. As always, if you can’t make it, the recordings will be posted to both our Community Calls page and the General OHDSI Teams recordings folder.
Our third OHDSI APAC Community Call: will be this week (Wednesday at 10 pm ET), and it will feature a pair of community presentations from the 2020 APAC Symposium. Ty Stanford will present his work on “Mapping to standardised vocabularies: a process for medicine codes in Australia,” while Jason Hsu and Alex Nguyen will present “Introduction of Taipei Medical University Clinical Research Database; TMUCDR – OHDSI CDM Mapping Progress.”
These calls have been moved to our Teams environment and are available within the OHDSI APAC Team. If you don’t currently have access to this Team, you can request it here. You can also use this direct link to the call.
WEEKLY WORKING GROUP CALLS
OMOP CDM Oncology WG – Genomic Subgroup Meeting: 9 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Tuesday at 9 am ET. MEETING IS CANCELLED THIS WEEK
Natural Language Processing WG: Wednesday, March 10 at 2 pm ET ( Meeting Link )
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the second Wednesday of each month at 2 pm ET.
OMOP CDM Oncology WG – CDM/Vocabulary Subgroup Meeting: Thursday, March 11 at 1 pm ET: (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Thursday at 1 pm ET.
China Chapter WG: Friday, March 12 at 10 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the second Friday of each month at 10 am ET. Note: this meeting does not take place in MS Teams.
Phenotype Development and Evaluation WG: Friday, March 12 at 1pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the second Friday of each month at 1 pm ET.
OHDSI SHOUTOUTS
Congratulations to Jenna Reps, Chungsoo Kim, Ross Williams, Aniek Markus, Cynthia Yang, Talita Duarte-Salles, Thomas Falconer, Jitendra Jonnagaddala, Andrew Williams, Sergio Fernández-Bertolín, Scott DuVall, Kristin Kostka, Gowtham Rao, Azza Shoaibi, Anna Ostropolets, Matthew Spotnitz, Lin Zhang, Paula Casajust, Ewout Steyerberg, Fredrik Nyberg, Benjamin Skov Kaas-Hansen, Young Hwa Choi, Daniel Morales, Siaw-Teng Liaw, Maria Tereza Fernandes Abrahão, Carlos Areia, Michael E Matheny, María Aragón, Rae Woong Park, George Hripcsak, Christian Reich, Marc Suchard, Seng Chan You, Patrick Ryan, Daniel Prieto-Alhambra, and Peter Rijnbeek on this paper published by JBIR Medical Informatics: Can we trust the prediction model? Illustrating the importance of external validation by implementing the COVID-19 Vulnerability (C-19) Index across an international network of observational healthcare datasets.
Congratulations to Jingqi Wang, Noor Abu-el-Rub, Josh Gray, Huy Anh Pham, Yujia Zhou, Frank Manion, Mei Liu, Xing Song, Hua Xu, Masoud Rouhizadeh, and Yaoyun Zhang on this recent JAMIA study: COVID-19 SignSym: a fast adaptation of a general clinical NLP tool to identify and normalize COVID-19 signs and symptoms to OMOP common data model.
MORE OHDSI UPDATES
The Prostate Cancer Study-A-Thon started Monday with more than 200 registered participants. It has been a collaborative effort between PIONEER, EHDEN and the OHDSI community. You can learn more about this important effort, which will take place through Friday, here.
The OHDSI March Visualization Challenge is underway, and we already have a handful of entries. Please check out the channel within the general OHDSI page for full instructions, and to see a few of the early posts that highlight a visualization using OHDSI tools/data/results that tells the most compelling story touching on the COVID pandemic. Link to the Channel
2021 OHDSI Symposium:
Please remember to hold the dates September 12-15, 2021 for this year’s symposium!
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
Accessing MSTeams : If you attended the 2020 OHDSI Symposium, you are already in the OHDSI teams environment. If you would like to be added to the OHDSI teams environment, please fill out this form: Join OHDSI Teams
If you are already in the OHDSI teams environment and you would like to join work groups in teams, please fill out this form: Join Workgroups, Chapters, and Studies
Teams Best Practices and Guidance : For some guidance on MS Teams, please log into OHDSI Teams and check out this channel located in the OHDSI Team Teams Best Practices and Guidance
**you can also find the document on our website ohdsi.org under “Collaborate with OHDSI in MS Teams.”
Please continue to collaborate in our MS Teams environment, check out the OHDSI website and forums, and follow us on all platforms, including Twitter and LinkedIn to get continued updates and information on everything happening in our community.