WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING (NO CALL THIS TUESDAY)
Due to the OHDSI Europe Symposium taking place today in Hasselt, Belgium, there will be no community call on July 8. Join us next week as the symposium organizers provide a review of the event.
WEEKLY WORKING GROUP MEETINGS (please check with organizers due to the European Symposium this week)
Upcoming Workgroup Calls – OHDSI
OHDSI SHOUTOUTS
Congratulations to the team of Maksym Trofymenko, Eduard Korchmar, Denys Kaduk, Marta Vikhrak, Bohdan Khilchevskyi, Tetiana Nesmiian, Polina Talapova, Max Ved and Inna Ageeva on the recent publication of Jackalope Plus tool for post-coordination, ontology development, and precise mapping in observational health studies in Scientific Reports.
• Congratulations to the team of Naroa Mendez, Eduardo Alonso, Moisés David Espejo, Maite López, Maykel Alonso-Arce, Eñaut Rojo, Alba Garin-Muga on the publication of Harmonizing Electronic Health Records to the OMOP Common Data Model: A Case Study on Surgical Complications in Volume 328 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Global Healthcare Transformation in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Informatics.
OHDSI UPDATES
There is still time to let your voice be heard on the future of ATLAS. All surveys remain open and will help our ATLAS workgroup develop its future roadmap. You can find the surveys below, and they are also available on the ATLAS roadmap homepage, along with the demo videos.
Overview: Microsoft Forms
Data Sources/Vocabulary: Microsoft Forms
Concept Sets/Cohorts: Microsoft Forms
Characterization, Incidence, Treatment Pathways: Microsoft Forms
Technical and Administrative Functions: Microsoft Forms
• The 2025 edition of the OHDSI newsletter is now available. It includes details around the Global Symposium tutorials, the ATLAS roadmap presentations, the latest collaborator spotlight with Phan Thanh Phuc, community updates, the monthly podcast, publications and more.
• Cindy Cai , a 2024 Titan Award winner and co-lead of the Eyecare and Vision Research workgroup, announced a new network study to research whether semaglutide is associated with neovascular age-related macular degeneration. This study follows up on a recent JAMA Ophthalmology publication. If you are interested in collaborating or learning more, please join the Eyecare and Vision Research workgroup.
• Tiffany Callahan (Senior Machine Learning Research Scientist at SandboxAQ) will provide a talk (July 31, 11 am ET) on ‘Agentic Mixture-of-Workflows for Multi-Modal Chemical Search’ during the next edition of The Center for Advanced Healthcare Research Informatics (CAHRI) at Tufts Medicine speaker series. This will be held on Zoom; please reach out to Marty Alvarez (malvarez2@tuftsmedicalcenter.org) if you are interested in joining the session.
• OHDSI is now on Bluesky! You can now get updates on all community activities and see all global research through the #OHDSISocialShowcase on Bluesky.
OHDSI Social Showcase
• Research from the 2024 UK Symposium Collaborator Showcase is being shared daily on OHDSI’s LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Instagram and Bluesky social channels as part of the #OHDSISocialShowcase. Below are posters (with study leads) that are featured this week:
Monday — Integrating OMOP data into daily monitoring of Sepsis patients (Quin Ashcroft)
Tuesday — Use of systemic fluoroquinolones in primary care and hospital settings in the UK: A population-level cohort study (Leena Elhussein)
Wednesday — OMOP Based CKD Detection Algorithm (Tim Howcroft)
Thursday — Evaluation of different ARIMA models incorporating the impact of COVID-19 for the forecasting of the prescription rates of antibiotics in the UK between 2013 to 2023 (Yuchen Guo)
OHDSI SYMPOSIA
GLOBAL OHDSI SYMPOSIUM, Hyatt Regency, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, Oct. 7-9
• Registration for the 2025 Global Symposium is now open! You are now able to register for any of the tutorials as well. There will be an introductory tutorial during the morning session, and five advanced tutorials during the afternoon session.
OHDSI 2025 Morning Tutorials
An Introduction to the Journey from Data to Evidence Using OHDSI Lead: Erica Voss
OHDSI 2025 Afternoon Tutorials
Developing and Evaluating Your Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) Process to the OMOP Common Data Model Lead: Clair Blacketer
Using the OHDSI Standardized Vocabularies for Research Lead: Anna Ostropolets
Clinical Characterization Applications to Generate Reliable Real-World Evidence Lead: Patrick Ryan
Population-Level Effect Estimation Applications to Generate Reliable Real-World Evidence Lead: George Hripcsak
Patient-Level Prediction Applications to Generate Reliable Real-World Evidence Lead: Jenna Reps
• The 2025 OHDSI Africa Symposium will be held Nov. 10-12 in Kampala, Uganda. The abstract submission deadline will be August 25. More details will be shared when available.
• The 2025 OHDSI Asia-Pacific Symposium will be held Dec. 6-7 in Shanghai, China. The abstract submission deadline will be August 25. More details will be shared when available.
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