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Demonstrating the power of the open source community, Martijn Schumie coordinated a group of 32 OHDSI (Observational Health Data Science Informatics) collaborators to participate in the HADES (Health Analytics Data-to-Evidence Suite) Unit-Test-A-Thon as a means to introduce new community members to HADES code and improve the overall coverage of unit tests within HADES. He presented a background on OHDSI - the tools, ecosystem, and community - and described how he was able to make the Unit-Test-A-Thon such a success.

Glen Coppersmith discussed a case study around suicide risk prevention and highlighted the possible utility of looking outside the healthcare system for additional information. He looked into a few interesting findings from his own market research, which included a few unexpected results.

Lisiane Pruinelli PhD, MS, RN, FAMIA present her research on The Potential of Big Data Science to Address Complex Health Conditions.

An overview of the 25 by 5: Symposiumo Reduce Documentation Burden on US Clinicians by 75% or less by 2025 from Sarah Rosetti, PhD, RN and Trent Rosenbloom, MD, MPH, FACMI, FAMIA.

Nursing Informatics Working Group leaders Dr. Judy Murphy and Dr. Karen Dunn-Lopez sat down with AMIA CEO Tanya Tolpegin and AMIA Board Member Susie Hull to discuss how NIWG can have the biggest impact on the future of nursing.

Anna Ostropolets, MD, PhD Candidate presents "Data Consult Service Generating New Clinical Evidence at the Point of Care.

The widespread adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) has enabled the use of clinical data for clinical research and practice. Since a significant portion of relevant patient information is embedded in clinical narratives, natural language processing (NLP) techniques such as information extraction have become critical for using EHRs in clinical research. Meanwhile, encoding entire EHR data in a patient representation has shown promising results in predictive modeling, and could help clinical decision making and facilitate translational research. This talk will feature clinical NLP methodologies and applications, and discuss why learning better representations from EHRs is crucial for clinical and translational research.

A journal club and conversation with Deborah Lauseng, Brenda Linares, Megan von Isenberg, Kristine Alpi and invited guests from the Medical Informatics Caucus of the Medical Library Association to discuss " Library involvement in health informatics education for health professions students and practitioners" Watch the Recording Presenters

Dr. Ashish Joshi discussed efforts of the Global Health Informatics working group to engage learners in a variety of collaborative informatics activities, shared about students engaged in his own funded global health informatics projects, and presented opportunities for the Education working group to collaborate on efforts to enhance our shared knowledge of global health informatics education.

Dr. Bačkonja discussed the work she and her colleagues did to understand the design needs of individuals experiencing menopause and provide additional insights and take-aways not included in the corresponding JAMIA article.