OHDSI Digest – April 4th, 2016

Hi Everyone,

Welcome to the first edition of the OHDSI weekly digest! Each Monday I’ll be sending out details for upcoming work group meetings and recognize community members achievements.

This week’s working group meetings:
CDM/Vocabulary meeting – Tuesday at 1pm ET
– Webex: https://imshealth.webex.com/mw0401lsp13/mywebex/default.do?service=1&siteurl=imshealth&nomenu=true&main_url=%2Fmc0901lsp13%2Fe.do%3Fsiteurl%3Dimshealth%26AT%3DMI%26EventID%3D444560102%26UID%3D2814759867%26Host%3DQUhTSwAAAAIIWO5pOrmGi2XPustx2svL2vy9kqYlSB5HJlbXPf3zblQYWNbEsAJ37-Q_L6bnFIhC9FGaKuR73X_O4c4v3mNw0%26FrameSet%3D2%26MTID%3Dm6e28fcb460625cec25ee9205b8111da61

Join by phone
US: 610-244-3377
US toll-free: 855-633-8467
UK: +44-203-075-5950
DE: +49-69-6604-4065
Conference ID: 14916110

NLP meeting – Wednesday at 2pm ET
– Screen Sharing: https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/7071964212
– Dial +1 (571) 317-3122 (United States)
– Enter conference ID: 707-196-421

Population Level Estimation meeting (Eastern Hemisphere) – Wednesday at 3pm in Hong Kong/Taiwan (4pm in South Korea, 5:30pm in Adelaide, 8am CET)
– Webex: https://meetings.webex.com/collabs/#/meetings/detail?uuid=MELVCCRFTU3AKOFUP7OKWRG4X4-D1JL&rnd=661114.60546
– Audio: +1-415-655-0001 US TOLL
– Access code: 194 732 563

Community Publications
Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI): Opportunities for Observational Researchers
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4815923

Improving Condition Severity Classification with an Efficient Active Learning Based Framework
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27016383

Data Extraction and Management in Networks of Observational Health Care Databases for Scientific Research: A Comparison of EU-ADR, OMOP, Mini-Sentinel and MATRICE Strategies
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27014709/

Preserving temporal relations in clinical data while maintaining privacy
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27013522