WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETINGS
Please join us Tuesday, August 7 (11 am ET) for our next OHDSI community call, which will be our annual “Newcomer Introductions” session. OHDSI is all about the collaboration within our community, and we are always looking to make new connections. If you are new to the community, or even if you’ve been around for a while and feel ready to get more involved, we would love to hear from you!
We will give you the floor to introduce yourself, share a bit about your background, say why you have joined OHDSI and perhaps how OHDSI can help you. To facilitate the call, we ask interested people to register here to ensure you are part of the session. You can also simply join the call and raise your hand to join.
Everybody is invited. Calendar invites went out last week. If you did not receive one, please use this link to join the meeting. All recordings from these weekly calls are available within our Teams environment and will be posted on both our YouTube page and our OHDSI.org Community Calls page.
WEEKLY WORKING GROUP MEETINGS
Upcoming Workgroup Calls – OHDSI
OHDSI UPDATES
• Research from the 2023 Europe Symposium is now available on OHDSI.org. Posters from the recent Collaborator Showcase in Rotterdam can now be viewed on the Europe Symposium Showcase homepage. Research is also being shared daily on OHDSI’s LinkedIn and Twitter feeds as part of the #OHDSISocialShowcase. Below are posters (with study leads) featured this week:
Monday – ARACHNE Execution Engine – Next Generation: Adaptive runtime environment to run federated studies (Sergey Suvorov)
Tuesday – Oslo University Hospital Participation in a European Cancer OMOP Network (Olivier Bouissou)
Wednesday – Development of an OMOP Ontology Application – PROSA – for creation and maintenance of highly granular source concepts within the OMOP vocabulary structure (Jared Houghtaling)
Thursday – Facilitating Global Understanding of Tixagevimab/Cilgavimab Use: Leveraging OMOP Common Data Model for Harmonized Data Extraction and Federated Network Creation (Yuval Koren)
Friday – Deep Learning Comparison (LH John)
• Titan Award nominations are now open. To recognize OHDSI collaborators (or collaborating institutions) for their contributions towards OHDSI’s mission, the OHDSI Titan Awards were introduced at the 2018 Symposium and have been handed out at the U.S./Global Symposium each year since. You can nominate a community member for a 2023 Titan Award now; the deadline is Sept. 15, 2023.
• The OHDSI Global Symposium will host our first ever ‘OHDSI Got Talent’ event. As with the popular television series, we will have a series of contestants perform 4-6 minute routines to showcase their talent, and a panel of judges will share their thoughts on what they have seen. The OHDSI community will vote for their favorite and we will crown a winner! Do you sing or play a musical instrument? Do you dance? Can you do magic or comedy? Do you have some other unique skill that you can demonstrate in 6 minutes or less? We want to see it! If you are interested in participating, please fill out this form. The deadline to submit this form is 8pm ET on Friday, September 22; you will be notified of your acceptance by Friday, September 29.
• The new Community Dashboard is now available on OHDSI.org. The dashboard includes tracking sites for publications, YouTube videos, EHDEN Academy courses, network studies, the phenotype explorer, and opportunities.
HADES Development Announcements
• Katy Sadowski announced the release of DataQualityDashboard 2.4.0. The main change in this release is a set of fixes to the threshold files to correct some erroneous failure thresholds and outdated plausible unit concept ID lists. Dmitry Dymshyts contributed the threshold fixes. Please visit the Changelog for more detail on the changes.
• Joel Swerdel announced the release of PheValuator 2.2.9. It allows for using a cohort to specifically designate cases for determining true and false negatives and positives. It also adds functionality for determining raw and corrected incidence proportion and incidence rates. The new version provides the complete set of output csv files for manually reading or for use within shiny.
GLOBAL OHDSI SYMPOSIUM
The 2023 OHDSI Global Symposium will be held Oct. 20-22 at the NEW location of the Hilton East Brunswick Hotel & Executive Meeting Center in East Brunswick, N.J. Below are all the critical links you will need for the weekend.
Register | Weekend Agenda | Collaborator Showcase Details | Book a Hotel Sleeping Room
Full Weekend Timeline | Weekend Activities Details | Register for OHDSI Got Talent!
2023 Titan Award Nomination Form
Please note that the weekend activity sign-ups are located on the main registration link above
OHDSI MSTEAMS
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Teams Best Practices and Guidance: For guidance on MS Teams, please check out this link
OHDSI-MICROSOFT-TEAMS-BEST-PRACTICES-1.pdf
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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