OHDSI Digest – April 16th 2018

OHDSI MEETINGS THIS WEEK
OHDSI Community Call – Tuesday at 12pm ET
https://meetings.webex.com/collabs/#/meetings/detail?uuid=M59X2V1U61WC9ASID2Z5N3UT95-D1JL&rnd=811649.9868221112
US TOLL: +1-415-655-0001
Meeting Number: 199 982 907

CDM and Vocabulary WG – Tuesday at 1pm ET
https://jjconferencing.webex.com/mw3100/mywebex/default.do?service=1&main_url=%2Fmc3100%2Fe.do%3Fsiteurl%3Djjconferencing%26AT%3DMI%26EventID%3D594628767%26MTID%3Dma32e5ce14c744149f041412fc99040f1%26Host%3DQUhTSwAAAASVgMyDOQd7vb9BN5k-UptJa_Gk1J-zE2cQn8vAktuQMo0Xmp8zuA_NCNpDQIiZrtOZRGYiH4-uB_6yxaZ4Slqe0%26FrameSet%3D2&siteurl=jjconferencing&nomenu=true
Call: 1-877-565-9999
Meeting number: 881 735 36

Population-Level Estimation (Eastern hemisphere) workgroup meeting – Wednesday at 3pm Hong Kong time
https://meetings.webex.com/collabs/meetings/join?uuid=M6WE9AOKFETH2VEFPVCZWWBIT0-D1JL

Architecture Working Group – Thursday at 10am ET
Webex: https://jjconferencing.webex.com/jjconferencing/j.php?MTID=m3e1ceeca56f1e94c9fcf1ae98c10e02e1

GIS working group meeting – Next Monday (April 23rd) at 10am ET
https://tufts.webex.com/mw3200/mywebex/default.do?service=1&siteurl=tufts&nomenu=true&main_url=%2Fmc3200%2Fe.do%3Fsiteurl%3Dtufts%26AT%3DMI%26EventID%3D562301137%26UID%3D528546812%26Host%3DQUhTSwAAAAT_EHuT3Ok-zHVhY1-kVGh78TH62dPsFk0x99qz1E9039sh_Eiepw8CoZeIF2SfnopQ8oAZaLN9PkzIZovRf2kV0%26FrameSet%3D2%26MTID%3Dm243d8e9a9c6c2d42d5182aeb5d30efdb
Meeting Number: 735 317 239
Password: gaia

ANNOUNCEMENTS
2018 OHDSI F2F: Voting for best clinical research question will open this week. Keep an eye out for a forum post inviting you to vote.

OHDSI Europe – Check out photos from the 2018 OHDSI European Symposium here: https://www.ohdsi.org/2018-european-symposium-photos/
Videos coming soon!

2018 OHDSI Symposium – Collaborator showcase
Back by popular demand, the collaborator showcase will be part of the 2018 OHDSI Symposium, set to take place on September 18th at the Bethesda North Marriott! Once again we’ll be inviting collaborators to participate in the collaborator showcase by submitting abstracts to give poster presentations, software demonstrations or oral presentations. More details coming soon!

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.
– Franz Kafka

COMMUNITY PUBLICATIONS
Building PCOR Value and Integrity with Data Quality and Transparency Standards
https://www.pcori.org/sites/default/files/Kahn052-Final-Research-Report.pdf

Comparing a Mobile Decision Support System Versus the Use of Printed Materials for the Implementation of an Evidence-Based Recommendation: Protocol for a Qualitative Evaluation.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29653921

Dynamic-ETL: a hybrid approach for health data extraction, transformation and loading.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28903729

Behavioral Health and the Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) Initiative: findings from the 2014 CPC behavioral health survey.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28851374

Improved computational tool for OHDSI: Bayesian penalized regression Separating known risk factors among the large number of potential confounders
http://www.ohdsi-europe.org/images/symposium-2018/posters/30-Aki-Nishimura.pdf