WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING
OHDSI hosted its fourth annual DevCon on April 25, and our upcoming April 29 community call will provide a recap on the event. DevCon included a series of lightning talks focusing on different tools and projects within the community’s open-source ecosystem, a conversation between developers around “Dev ops, DBT and, of course, LLMs” and a final panel on developing a sustainable open-source ecosystem. Please join us for a review and reflections on DevCon2025!
Everybody is invited. If you do not have a calendar invite, 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 SHOUTOUTS
Congratulations to the team of Klaus Donsa, Patrick Mangesius, Aaron Lauschensky, Martin Baumgartner, Nikola Tanjga, Stefan Beyer, Günter Schreier, and Karl Kreiner on the recent publication of FOX BOXes as Fundamental Enablers for EHR-Standardised Data Sharing – Building the Austrian Health Data Donation Space in Volume 324 of Studies in Health Techology and Informatics: dHealth 2025.
• Congratulations to the team of Jakob Thiel, Martin Sedlmayr, and Elisa Henke on the recent publication of Standardizing Heat-Related Diagnoses for Predictive Modeling in Healthcare in Volume 324 of Studies in Health Techology and Informatics: dHealth 2025.
• Congratulations to the team of Jin Ge, Albert Lee, Oksana Gologorskaya, Aryana Far, Asal Bastani, Chiung-Yu Huang, Mark J Pletcher, and Jennifer C Lai on the recent publication of Characterizing practice variations in the care of hospitalized patients with cirrhosis across the University of California Health in Liver Transplantation.
OHDSI UPDATES
Our fourth annual DevCon was held April 25. This event brought together developers and innovators to explore the latest tools, technologies, and strategies shaping the future of open-source software in healthcare and data science. All three sessions, as well as the introductory talk by Paul Nagy, are all available on the DevCon event page.
• The ATLAS working group has put together a short survey to help dentify who is using ATLAS in our community. If you are not using ATLAS, please also fill in this survey to help identify any barriers for adoption in your company/institution. Additionally, this survey will ask if you’d like to be interviewed for feedback on your usage of ATLAS. Data4Life is working closely with the working group to conduct interviews (~1hr) that will help inform the future direction of the application.
• The submission deadline for the 2025 Collaborator Showcase is July 1. The showcase will be accepting both posters and software demos, as well as interest in hosting lightning talks. More information on the symposium, including abstract submission and registration links, will be available soon.
• The Columbia Summer School on OHDSI, which will be held July 14-18 at Columbia University, provides health professionals, researchers, and industry practitioners with an immersive, hands-on training to working with real-world health data and generating real-world evidence (RWE). Participants will explore the types of healthcare data captured during routine clinical care—such as electronic health records and administrative claims—and learn how to standardize these data using the OMOP Common Data Model to support collaborative, distributed research as part of a data network. Registration is now open and will be capped at 30 people.
• Christian Reich and Sarah Seager are leading an effort to publish a second edition of the Book of OHDSI, which will include updates to previous text and new paragraphs/chapters. This work is taking place within the Education workgroup; if you would like to join this effort, please sign up here.
Save The Dates
• The OHDSI Global Symposium will be held Oct. 7-9 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Agenda and registration information will be shared when available.
• Registration is open for the Europe Symposium, which will be held July 5-7 in the “Old Prison” building of Hasselt University in Hasselt, Belgium.
OHDSI Social Showcase
• Research from the 2024 Global Symposium Collaborator Showcase is also being shared daily on OHDSI’s LinkedIn, Twitter/X and Instagram feeds as part of the #OHDSISocialShowcase. Below are posters (with study leads) that are featured this week:
Monday — Enhancing Local Vocabulary into OMOP Vocabulary based on the Semi-Automated Framework: Korean EDI Case Study (Yilu Park)
Tuesday — Scaling the OHDSI Common Data Model into Large Enterprises - Insights from the DoD Military Health System (Jesus Caban)
Wednesday — Race and ethnicity biases introduced by filtering electronic health records for patients with “complete data” (Yasaman Fatapour)
Thursday — Implementation and Evaluation of the Prevalence of Low-Value Care Procedures Using the OHDSI Network: A Case Study of Early Peripheral Vascular Interventions for Claudication (Chen Dun)
Friday — Accelerating FHIR to OMOP conversions on IQVIA Health Data Transformation Platform (Jonathan Cook)
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