WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETINGS
Please join us Tuesday, April 19 (11 am ET) for our next OHDSI Community Call, when we will receive a new set of workgroup updates, including an introduction of a brand new workgroup (Eye Care and Vision Research). We’ll also get our final update on the upcoming OHDSI DevCon, set for Friday, April 22 (8 am - 12 pm ET).
We will hear updates on the following workgroups:
• Eye Care and Vision Research (Sally Baxter, Assistant Professor, Division Chief for Ophthalmology Informatics and Data Science, UC San Diego)
• FHIR and OMOP (Christian Reich, Vice President, RWE Systems • IQVIA)
• Oncology (Asieh Golozar, VP, Global Head of Data Science • Odysseus Data Services)
• Steering Group (Jody-Ann McLeggon • Program Manager, Columbia University)
Everybody is invited. Calendar invites for our 2022 community calls go out each Friday. 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.
The next APAC Community Call will be held Thursday, April 21 (Wednesday night in the Western Hemisphere) and will provide APAC Studies quarterly updates. You can get the link for the call, or access the recording afterwards, on the APAC Community page.
WEEKLY WORKING GROUP MEETINGS
Common Data Model WG: Tuesday, April 19 at 1pm ET (Meeting Link )
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the first and third Tuesdays of each month at 10am and 1pm ET, respectively.
Medical Imaging WG: Wednesday, April 20 at 7 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Wednesday alternating between 7am and 7pm ET.
Africa Chapter Meeting: Wednesday, April 20 at 9 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the third Wednesday of each month at 9 am ET
FHIR and OMOP WG – Data Model Harmonization Subgroup Meeting: Wednesday, April 20 at 9am ET (Eastern Hemisphere) (Meeting Link) Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 9am ET. NOTE: This meeting takes place on Zoom but please check the Teams Work Group for information & updates (Meeting ID: 971 1680 7510 Passcode: 143545)
Open-Source Community WG: Wednesday, April 20 at 11am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Wednesday art 11am ET.
Health Equity Journal Club: Wednesday, April 20 at 12pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the third Wednesday of each month at 12pm ET.
FHIR and OMOP WG-Terminologies Subgroup: Meeting: Wednesday, April 20 at 12pm ET (European & Eastern US Time zone participants): (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Wednesday at 12pm 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)
Data Quality Dashboard Development WG: Thursday, April 21 at 10am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Thursday at 10am ET
HADES WG: Thursday, April 21 at 12pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the third Thursday of each month at 12pm ET.
FHIR and OMOP WG-Oncology Subgroup: Thursday, April 21 at 12pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Thursday at 12pm ET
OMOP CDM Oncology- Vocabulary Subgroup: Thursday, April 21 at 1pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Thursday at 1pm ET
Education WG: Friday, April 22 at 9am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every 4 weeks on Friday of each month at 9am ET.
GIS-Geographic Information System WG GENERAL Meeting: Friday, April 22 at 9am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Friday at 9am ET.
Phenotype Development and Evaluation WG: Friday, April 22 at 10am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the second and fourth Fridays of each month at 10am ET.
Healthcare Systems Interest Group (formerly Electronic Health Record WG): Monday, April 25 at 10am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Monday at 10am ET.
OHDSI SHOUTOUTS
Congratulations to the team of Luis John, Jan Kors, Jenna Reps, Patrick Ryan, and Peter R.Rijnbeek on the publication of Logistic regression models for patient-level prediction based on massive observational data: Do we need all data? in the International Journal of Medical Informatics.
OHDSI UPDATES
Curious about the new OHDSI Sponsorship program that was announced last week, and how you can help support the community’s global research journey? Check out the OHDSI Sponshorship homepage, which includes the community call presentation from George Hripcsak.
Are you running a network study and seeking collaboration or data partners? Our May 24 community call will be focused on Open Studies, and we are looking for presenters. If you would like to join this call, please contact Craig Sachson at sachson@ohdsi.org.
The Open-Source Community is hosting the first OHDSI Dev Con this Friday, April 22 (8 am - 12 pm ET) as a way of accepting and mentoring new contributors to our environment. Organized by Paul Nagy and Adam Black on behalf of the Open-Source Community Workgroup, the event will include multiple workshops, talks and a panel discussion to both welcome and engage both current and future developers within OHDSI. You can register for the event now.
Registration has opened for the 2022 OHDSI Symposium, which will be held Oct. 14-16 at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center. The main conference will be held Friday, Oct. 14, while a full-day tutorial (An Introductory Journey from Data to Evidence) will be held Saturday, Oct. 15. There will be several workgroup activities between Oct. 15-16 as well. Here are several important links for #OHDSI2022.
Full Symposium: Homepage | Weekend Room Block | FAQs
Oct. 14 – Main Conference: Information | Registration | Collaborator Showcase
Oct. 15 – Tutorial: Information | Registration
The next CBER BEST Seminar will be held Wednesday, April 27, at 11 am ET. Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen (Luddy Family President’s Distinguished Professor, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania) will present his work on “Addressing Selection and Confounding Bias in Test-Negative Study Designs for Flu and COVID-19 Monitoring.” You can register for this seminar here.
The 2022 OHDSI European Symposium, which will be held at the Steam Ship Rotterdam in The Netherlands, will be held 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.
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OHDSI-MICROSOFT-TEAMS-BEST-PRACTICES-1.pdf
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