WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETINGS
Please join us Tuesday, Sept. 20 (11 am ET) for our next community call, when we will have a full preview of the 2022 OHDSI Symposium (Oct. 14-16, Bethesda, Md.).
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.
WEEKLY WORKING GROUP MEETINGS
Common Data Model WG: Tuesday, Sept 20 at 1pm ET (Meeting Link )
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the first and third Tuesdays of each month at 10am and 1pm ET, respectively.
FHIR and OMOP WG – Data Model Harmonization Subgroup Meeting: Wednesday, Sept. 21 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, Sept 21 at 11am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Wednesday art 11am ET.
FHIR and OMOP WG-Terminologies Subgroup: Wednesday, Sept 21 at 12pm ET (European & Eastern US Time zone): (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: 924 8598 5949; Passcode: 477364)
Health Equity Journal Club: Wednesday, Sept. 21 at 12pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the third Wednesday of each month at 12pm ET.
Medical Imaging WG: Wednesday, Sept 21 at 7pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Wednesday alternating between 7am and 7pm ET.
Data Quality Dashboard Development WG: Thursday, Sept 22 at 10am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Thursday at 10am ET
FHIR and OMOP WG-Oncology Subgroup: Thursday, Sept 22 at 12pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Thursday at 12pm ET
GIS-Geographic Information System WG GENERAL Meeting: Friday, Sept 23 at 9am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Friday at 9am ET.
Phenotype Development and Evaluation WG: Friday, Sept 23 at 9am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the second and fourth Fridays of each month at 9am ET.
Healthcare Systems Interest Group (formerly Electronic Health Record WG): Monday, Sept. 26 at 10am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Monday at 10am ET
OHDSI SHOUTOUTS
Congratulations to the team of Linying Zhang, Yixin Wang, Martijn Schuemie, David Blei, and George Hripcsak on the publication of Adjusting for indirectly measured confounding using large-scale propensity score in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics.
Congratulations to the team of Victor G. Castano, Matthew Spotnitz, Genna J. Waldman, Evan F. Joiner, Hyunmi Choi, Anna Ostropolets, Karthik Natarajan, Guy M. McKhann, Ruth Ottman, Alfred I. Neugut, George Hripcsak, and Brett E. Youngerman on the publication of Identification of patients with drug resistant epilepsy in electronic medical record data using the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership Common Data Model in Epilepsia.
JOB POSTINGS
Talita Duarte-Salles , a 2020 OHDSI Titan Award honoree, recently announced an opening for a post-doc to join her Real World Epidemiology group at the The Institut d’Investigació en Atenció Primària Jordi Gol (IDIAPJGol); more information is available here.
Jon Duke has posted a position for the head of health interoperability (aka FHIR) at Georgia Tech. If you or someone you know would be interested, please check out the job description. I would also be delighted to answer any questions either virtually or in person at the Symposium
OHDSI UPDATES
The OHDSI Social Showcase continues this week! Accepted submissions from the European Symposium Collaborator Showcase will be shared on the OHDSI Twitter and LinkedIn feeds. Here are the posters that will be highlighted this week.
Monday – Current Status of OMOP-CDM in Asia-Pacific regions and Lessons for Data Quality Assessment: Collaborative CDM Inspection Study (Chungsoo Kim)
Tuesday – Pregnancy extension table in the OMOP CDM (Alicia Abellan)
Wednesday – The EHDEN Portal – an entry web platform for OMOP CDM resources (José Oliveira)
OHDSI SYMPOSIUM
2022 OHDSI Symposium
The full agenda for the OHDSI 2022 Symposium is now available. Check out the main conference schedule, which includes a plenary on objective diagnostics, presentations around OHDSI support for regulatory authorities, the collaborator showcase and plenty more.
Registration remains 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 | FAQs
Oct. 14 – Main Conference: Information | Registration | Collaborator Showcase
Oct. 15 – Tutorial: Information | Registration
Oct. 15-16 – Workgroup Activities: Information | Registration
HOTEL SLEEPING ROOMS:
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE OHDSI ROOM BLOCK HAS SOLD OUT BUT YOU CAN STILL MAKE A HOTEL ROOM ON THE HOTEL’S WEBSITE.
HOTEL WEBSITE:
Rockville, MD Hotel | Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center
GUEST-ROOM WI-FI: to get free guest room Wi-fi at the symposium you can join the Marriott rewards program here https://www.marriott.com/loyalty.mi
FOR A LIST OF OTHER HOTELS IN THE BETHESDA AREA, YOU MAY CLICK THIS LINK HOTELS-IN-THE-BETHESDA-AREA.pdf (ohdsi.org)
OHDSI MSTEAMS
Accessing MSTeams: To join OHDSI Teams, 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 guidance on MS Teams, please check out this link
OHDSI-MICROSOFT-TEAMS-BEST-PRACTICES-1.pdf
Duplicate email removal from OHDSI Teams: As you should always be using one email in OHDSI Teams when joining all workgroups, you may remove duplicate emails by filling out this form
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