Working Group Webinar Library

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.

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.Brian S. Alper Alper presented summaries of recently published RCT evidence and current guideline recommendations regarding anticoagulation for patients hospitalized with COVID-19. Watch the Recording Presenter

Dr. Andrew King from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine presented his work on the Simple EMR System, a "rapidly deployable and readily customizable electronic medical record (EMR) user interface for supporting laboratory-based research studies of EMR design and usability."" It is written in Python, and is freely available under the GPL-3.0 License.

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.