OHDSI Digest – February 5th, 2018

OHDSI MEETINGS THIS WEEK
OHDSI Community Call – Tuesday at 12pm ET
https://meetings.webex.com/collabs/#/meetings/detail?uuid=M59X2V1U61WC9ASID2Z5N3UT95-D1JL&rnd=811649.9868221
US TOLL: +1-415-655-0001
Meeting Number: 199 982 907

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=m3e1ceeca56f1e94c9fcf1ae98c10e02e

GIS working group meeting – Next Monday (February 12th) 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

CDM and Vocabulary WG – Next Tuesday (February 13th) at 1pm ET

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Health Data Stories: February is American Heart Month. What research questions can the OHDSI community tackle in support of heart health? Let Patrick know here: http://forums.ohdsi.org/t/february-is-american-heart-month-what-can-ohdsi-do-to-help-the-cause/3957
Also, check out January’s thyroid health story here: http://forums.ohdsi.org/t/january-is-thyroid-awareness-month-what-health-data-stories-do-you-have-to-share/3942

2018 OHDSI Symposium – SAVE THE DATE!
Mark your calendar! The 2018 OHDSI Symposium will take place on September 18th at the Bethesda North Marriott. We’ll also be offering tutorials on September 17th and 19th.
Watch the forum for more details!

2018 OHDSI F2F: Registration will open soon for the next OHDSI face-to-face will take place on May 2-3rd 2018 at Columbia University Medical Center in New York. Watch the forum for updates.

Sometimes, what you’re looking for is already there.
– Aretha Franklin

COMMUNITY PUBLICATIONS
Adaptive MCMC for multi-partite data in Bayesian Phylogenetics
https://lirias.kuleuven.be/handle/123456789/611652

Estimating summary statistics for electronic health record laboratory data for use in high-throughput phenotyping algorithms.
http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/29369797

Methodological variations in lagged regression for detecting physiologic drug effects
in EHR data
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1801/1801.08929.pdf

Inferring pregnancy episodes and outcomes within a network of observational databases.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29389968

Enabling Open Science for Health Research: Collaborative Informatics Environment for Learning on Health Outcomes (CIELO)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28760728

Use of SGLT2 inhibitors for diabetes and risk of infection: Analysis using general practice records from the NPS MedicineWise MedicineInsight program.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28646701