Registration is open for the 2024 OHDSI Global Symposium, which will be held October 22-24 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, N.J., USA. The event will include a day of tutorials, a day of plenaries and the collaborator showcase, and a day of workgroup activities. Check out the event homepage for more information.

There are more than 130 posters/demos that will be shared during the Collaborator Showcase, including eight that will be featured as lightning talks during the main conference Wednesday. There will also be plenaries on 'Clinical Insights from LEGEND-T2DM' and 'Value Proposition for Participating in OHDSI Network Studies like LEGEND-T2DM', and there is a panel on the recent JACC-OHDSI Partnership. 

More details on the five tutorials, including the Introduction to OHDSI session, and the workgroup activities cane be found using the links below. We can't wait to see everybody later this month in New Brunswick!

The first OHDSI India Symposium will be held Saturday, Oct. 5, at the Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai, India. In association with the Global Digital Health Summit, this event is set to bring together more than 20 community leaders in the field of health data research for a day of sharing, learning and networking.

Following opening remarks by both Louis Hendriks and Dr. Rajendra Pratap Gupta, there will be an overview about the OHDSI community and a discussion about the OHDSI India chapter. There are also brief talks that will focus on the European Health Data Space, RWE & RWD in India, and Data Collection Challenges in Hospitals.

There will be a pair of panel discussions during the event, focusing on both leveraging real-world evidence to improve health outcomes in India, as well as the power of data in healthcare transformation. There will also be a two-hour collaborator showcase to highlight the exciting research taking place in the region. Registration remains open through Oct. 3 at 5:00 PM (Asia/Kolkata), and you can use the links below to register and/or learn more.

Dr. Yong Chen, Professor of Biostatistics, founded and directs the Computing, Inference, and Learning Lab (PENNCIL) at the University of Pennsylvania. The mission of the PENNCIL lab is to develop computational methods and software to transform real-world data into insights, to disseminate the methods and knowledge to research communities, and to bridge the gap from data to actionable health care.

Yong, who has been leading methodological work within the OHDSI community for several years, is an Elected Fellow in both the American Statistical Association (2020) and the the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) (2023), and he earned the 2021 OHDSI Titan Award for Methodological Research. His research areas include real-world data, clinical evidence generation, learning health systems and healthcare delivery.

In the latest edition of the Collaborator Spotlight, Yong discusses his career journey, recent advances in methods research, how his students use OHDSI in their research, and more.

Registration is now open for the 2024 OHDSI APAC Symposium, which will be held in Singapore at the Marina Bay Sands and the National University of Singapore (NUS). This year’s event will be co-hosted with Singapore’s International Medical AGI Network Event (IMAGINE) and will feature a 1-day tutorial, a 2-day main conference and a 2-day datathon.

The main conference will have sessions focused on the recent Community-Wide ETL Project, the 2024 APAC Study, Large Language Models and more. Registration information and detailed agendas can be found on the event homepage. We hope to see you in Singapore this December!