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The Journey Newsletter (June 2023)
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Calling all collaborators! The deadline to submit your brief reports for the 2023 Global Symposium Collaborator Spotlight is Friday, June 16 at 8 pm EST. We have all the information in this newsletter, as well as updates on the European and Asia-Pacific Symposiums, the SOS Challenge, 20 new publications from the community, and plenty more! #JoinTheJourney
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OHDSI Videocast: June Updates
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In the latest On The Journey video, Patrick Ryan and Craig Sachson discuss the 2023 Collaborator Showcase and the upcoming submission deadline. They also look ahead at the European and Asia-Pacific Symposiums, both of which will be held in July, and they reflect on lessons learned from SOS Challenge. (if video does not appear, click 'view this email in your browser')
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Where Have We Been?
• The SOS Challenge tutorials have concluded, and more than 16 hours worth of educational content about leading (or participating in) an OHDSI network study are now available on the event homepage. Studies are ongoing, so please join our teams to help answer these clinical questions.
• Anna Ostropolets shared the final version of the OHDSI Standardized Vocabularies Assessment. One of the goals of this community activity was to create a more transparent and reliable release cycle. Please join our June 6 community call for a full session on OHDSI vocabularies.
• Congratulations to OHDSI veteran Thamir Alshammari on earning the distinction of being one of the 15 new ISPE fellows for 2023. The new Fellows will be officially inducted at the Annual Members’ Meeting & Awards Ceremony scheduled for Saturday, August 26th at the Halifax Convention Center, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
• New jobs and PhD opportunities were shared during May. Please visit our This Week in OHDSI page to learn more about openings throughout our community.
Where Are We Now?
• The OHDSI 2023 Global Symposium collaborator showcase deadline is less than three weeks away. All brief reports must be submitted by 8 pm EST on Friday, June 16. More information on the collaborator showcase is available here, and you can use this link to submit your brief report.
• The OHDSI India chapter will be hosting its first webinar on “Redefine Indian healthcare with Real-world data and Real-world evidence” on June 14, 2023, from 3-4 pm IST. This webinar will share the latest progress within the RWD/RWE space in India and share how collaboration with the OHDSI India chapter can transform the healthcare management landscape in India. Nicole Pratt, Vikram Patil and Parthiban Sulur will be among the featured speakers. If you are interested, please visit the OHDSI India homepage to register.
• The PIONEER team is leading a studyathon June 13-16 in Stockholm, Sweden, with a focus on “Observational health data analysis on the adverse events of systemic treatment in patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer” and is looking for participation from the OHDSI community, and specifically members of the Oncology WG. This will be a hybrid event so online participation is welcome. If you are interested in learning more, please fill out this form. PIONEER are especially looking for: collaborators with data on metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer already in the OMOP-CDM; experts with coding skills in R, SQL and Python; data analysts familiar with R and R Shiny; and epidemiologists with experience in phenotyping.
Where Are We Going?
• 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. Registration has opened, and the call for collaboration is open until Friday, June 16, at 8 pm ET. Check out the symposium homepage for more information and updates as we get closer to the OHDSI symposium.
• The 2023 European Symposium — titled “Full Steam Ahead” — will be held July 1-3 in Rotterdam. The main conference will be held Monday, July 3, while there will be tutorials on the weekend of July 1-2; the weekend agenda is available here. Registration is open for this event.
• The 2023 Asia-Pacific (APAC) Symposium will be held July 13-14 at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and it will follow MedInfo 2023 (July 8-12 in Sydney, Australia). Registration has opened for this event. The agenda is now posted on the event homepage. The main conference will be held July 13 with sessions focused on OHDSI Global, Research, and OHDSI APAC, while there will be tutorials held on July 14.
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Collaborator Showcase Extended At OHDSI2023; Please Join Us By Submitting Your Brief Reports Before The June 16 Deadline!
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The Collaborator Showcase is always one of the most anticipated parts of the year. Once again, we are inviting our community to participate in the Collaborator Showcase for the 2023 OHDSI Global Symposium. Collaborators will have the opportunity to submit their work for poster presentations, oral talks, and software demonstrations.
This year, the collaborator showcase will be extended throughout the weekend, so presenters will have multiple opportunities to share their work!
Topics should align with at least one of OHDSI’s strategic areas of focus:
● Observational data standards and management
● Open-source analytics development
● Methodological research
● Clinical applications
The OHDSI 2023 Global Symposium collaborator showcase deadline is less than three weeks away. All brief reports must be submitted by 8 pm EST on Friday, June 16. We received a record number of submissions at the 2022 Global Symposium, and record totals for both the 2023 European and APAC Symposiums, so we are very excited to see what research will be presented this October 20-22 at the Hilton East Brunswick Hotel & Executive Meeting Center in East Brunswick, N.J.
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Collaborator Spotlight: Mengling 'Mornin' Feng
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Mengling 'Mornin' Feng is an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore and the Assistant Director of Research (Healthcare) at the Institute of Data Science. He has several research interests, including artificial intelligence solutions for healthcare challenges, causal inference for evidence-based medicine, and deep learning models for medical image analysis.
Mornin has been an OHDSI leader in helping to spread the community to the Asia-Pacific region. He is the chair of the Singapore Chapter, and recently helped develop a collaboration with the Singapore Ministry of Health that has led the Ministry to use the OMOP CDM as the main platform for research.
In the latest edition of the Collaborator Spotlight, Mornin discusses his professional journey, how he connected with OHDSI, recent developments within the Singapore and APAC regions, and plenty more.
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Everybody is invited to the weekly OHDSI community call, which takes place each Tuesday at 11 am ET. These calls are meant to inform and engage our community through a variety of call formats, including community presentations, workgroup updates, breakout sessions, publication announcements, newcomer-focused sessions, and more.
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Registration Remains Open For The July OHDSI Symposiums In Netherlands, Australia
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July will be a busy month for the OHDSI community, as both the European and Asia-Pacific (APAC) Symposiums will be held during the month. Registration is open for both events.
The 2023 European Symposium — titled “Full Steam Ahead” — will be held July 1-3 in Rotterdam. The main conference will be held Monday, July 3, while there will be tutorials on the weekend of July 1-2. Registration is open for this event, and you can see the full agenda here.
The 2023 Asia-Pacific (APAC) Symposium will be held July 13-14 at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and it will follow MedInfo 2023 (July 8-12 in Sydney, Australia). Registration is also open, and the agenda is now posted on the event homepage. The main conference will be held July 13 with sessions focused on OHDSI Global, Research, and OHDSI APAC, while there will be tutorials held on July 14.
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Ostropolets A, Ryan P, Hripcsak G. Phenotyping in distributed data networks: selecting the right codes for the right patients. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2023 Apr 29;2022:826-835. PMID: 37128407; PMCID: PMC10148372.
Joopudi V, Dandala B, Tsou CH, Liang JJ. Hierarchy-aware Adverse Reaction Embeddings for Signal Detection. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2023 Apr 29;2022:596-605. PMID: 37128452; PMCID: PMC10148317.
Jiang X, Beaton MA, Gillberg J, Williams A, Natarajan K. Feasibility of Linking Area Deprivation Index Data to the OMOP Common Data Model. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2023 Apr 29;2022:587-595. PMID: 37128466; PMCID: PMC10148322.
Kempf E, Vaterkowski M, Leprovost D, Griffon N, Ouagne D, Breant S, Serre P, Mouchet A, Rance B, Chatellier G, Bellamine A, Frank M, Guerin J, Tannier X, Livartowski A, Hilka M, Daniel C. How to Improve Cancer Patients ENrollment in Clinical Trials From rEal-Life Databases Using the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership Oncology Extension: Results of the PENELOPE Initiative in Urologic Cancers. JCO Clin Cancer Inform. 2023 May;7:e2200179. doi: 10.1200/CCI.22.00179. PMID: 37167578.
Korntheuer RL, Katsch F, Duftschmid G. Transforming Documents of the Austrian Nationwide EHR System into the OMOP CDM. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2023 May 2;301:54-59. doi: 10.3233/SHTI230011. PMID: 37172152.
Spotnitz M, Acharya N, Cimino JJ, Murphy S, Namjou B, Crimmins N, Walunas T, Liu C, Crosslin D, Benoit B, Rosenthal E, Pacheco JA, Ostropolets A, Reyes Nieva H, Patterson JS, Richter LR, Callahan TJ, Elhussein A, Pang C, Kiryluk K, Nestor J, Khan A, Mohan S, Minty E, Chung W, Wei WQ, Natarajan K, Weng C. A metadata framework for computational phenotypes. JAMIA Open. 2023 May 9;6(2):ooad032. doi: 10.1093/jamiaopen/ooad032. PMID: 37181728; PMCID: PMC10168627.
Choi B, Oh AR, Park J, Lee JH, Yang K, Lee DY, Rhee SY, Kang SS, Lee SD, Lee SH, Jeong CW, Park B, Seol S, Park RW, Lee S. Perioperative adverse cardiac events and mortality after non-cardiac surgery: a multicenter study. Korean J Anesthesiol. 2023 May 10. doi: 10.4097/kja.23043. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37169362.
Korntheuer RL, Katsch F, Duftschmid G. Transforming Documents of the Austrian Nationwide EHR System into the OMOP CDM. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2023 May 2;301:54-59. doi: 10.3233/SHTI230011. PMID: 37172152.
Yoo H, Yum Y, Park SW, Lee JM, Jang M, Kim Y, Kim JH, Park HJ, Han KS, Park JH, Joo HJ. Standardized Database of 12-Lead Electrocardiograms with a Common Standard for the Promotion of Cardiovascular Research: KURIAS-ECG. Healthc Inform Res. 2023 Apr;29(2):132-144. doi: 10.4258/hir.2023.29.2.132. Epub 2023 Apr 30. PMID: 37190737; PMCID: PMC10209728.
Lee GH, Park J, Kim J, Kim Y, Choi B, Park RW, Rhee SY, Shin SY. Feasibility Study of Federated Learning on the Distributed Research Network of OMOP Common Data Model. Healthc Inform Res. 2023 Apr;29(2):168-173. doi: 10.4258/hir.2023.29.2.168. Epub 2023 Apr 30. PMID: 37190741; PMCID: PMC10209729.
Reinecke I, Henke E, Peng Y, Sedlmayr M, Bathelt F. Fitness for Use of Anatomical Therapeutic Classification for Real World Data Research. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2023 May 18;302:711-715. doi: 10.3233/SHTI230245. PMID: 37203475.
Peng Y, Henke E, Sedlmayr M, Bathelt F. Towards ETL Processes to OMOP CDM Using Metadata and Modularization. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2023 May 18;302:751-752. doi: 10.3233/SHTI230256. PMID: 37203486.
Haug M, Kolde R, Oja M, Pajusalu M. Modeling Patient Treatment Trajectories Using Markov Chains for Cost Analysis. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2023 May 18;302:755-756. doi: 10.3233/SHTI230258. PMID: 37203488.
Katsch F, Hussein R, Korntheuer R, Duftschmid G. Converting HL7 CDA Based Nationwide Austrian Medication Data to OMOP CDM. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2023 May 18;302:899-900. doi: 10.3233/SHTI230300. PMID: 37203528.
Henke E, Zoch M, Reinecke I, Spoden M, Ruhnke T, Günster C, Sedlmayr M, Bathelt F. German Claims Data for Real-World Research: Content Coverage Evaluation in OMOP CDM. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2023 May 18;302:3-7. doi: 10.3233/SHTI230053. PMID: 37203598.
Williams RD, den Otter S, Reps JM, Rijnbeek PR. The DELPHI Library: Improving Model Validation, Transparency and Dissemination Through a Centralised Library of Prediction Models. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2023 May 18;302:139-140. doi: 10.3233/SHTI230085. PMID: 37203630.
Oh SW, Ko SJ, Im YS, Jung S, Choi BY, Kim JY, Choi W, Choi IY. Data Quality Assessment for Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership Common Data Model of Multi-Center. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2023 May 18;302:322-326. doi: 10.3233/SHTI230127. PMID: 37203671.
Blasini R, Michel-Backofen A, Schneider H, Marquardt K. RD-MON - Building a Rare Disease Monitor to Enhance Awareness for Patients with Rare Diseases in Intensive Care. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2023 May 18;302:358-359. doi: 10.3233/SHTI230139. PMID: 37203683.
Callahan TJ, Stefanski AL, Wyrwa JM, Zeng C, Ostropolets A, Banda JM, Baumgartner WA Jr, Boyce RD, Casiraghi E, Coleman BD, Collins JH, Deakyne Davies SJ, Feinstein JA, Lin AY, Martin B, Matentzoglu NA, Meeker D, Reese J, Sinclair J, Taneja SB, Trinkley KE, Vasilevsky NA, Williams AE, Zhang XA, Denny JC, Ryan PB, Hripcsak G, Bennett TD, Haendel MA, Robinson PN, Hunter LE, Kahn MG. Ontologizing health systems data at scale: making translational discovery a reality. NPJ Digit Med. 2023 May 19;6(1):89. doi: 10.1038/s41746-023-00830-x. PMID: 37208468; PMCID: PMC10196319.
Kingsbury P, Abajian H, Abajian M, Angyan P, Espinoza J, MacDonald B, Meeker D, Wilson JP, Bahroos N. SEnDAE: A resource for expanding research into social and environmental determinants of health. Comput Methods Programs Biomed. 2023 Apr 8;238:107542. doi: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2023.107542. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37224727.
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May 2: Network Execution Tutorial
• Session 1 (Jenna Reps, Jack Brewster)
• Session 2 (Anthony Sena, Chungsoo Kim)
May 9: Study Diagnostics Tutorial
• Session 1 (Fan Bu, George Hripcsak)
• Session 2 (Mitchell Conover, Nicole Pratt)
May 16: Evidence Synthesis Tutorial
• Session 1 (Yong Chen, Martijn Schuemie)
• Session 2 (Marc Suchard)
May 23: Interpreting the Results Discussion
• Session 1 (Cindy Cai)
• Session 2 (Jack Janetzki, Seng Chan You)
May 30: Collaborator Showcase Brainstorm
• Showcase Introduction & Logistics (Patrick Ryan)
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