OHDSI Digest – June 19th, 2017

OHDSI MEETINGS THIS WEEK
Population visualization WG meetings – Tuesday at 2pm ET
Join the meeting: https://zoom.us/j/571344295

Patient-level prediction (Eastern hemisphere) workgroup meeting – Wednesday at 3pm Hong Kong time
https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/9729176611

Population-Level Estimation (Western hemisphere) WG Meeting – Wednesday at 12pm ET
https://meetings.webex.com/collabs/#/meetings/detail?uuid=M6WE9AOKFETH2VEFPVCZWWBIT0-D1JL&rnd=479368.763622

Hadoop WG meeting – Friday at 11am ET
WebEx: http://cloudera.webex.com/meet/sdolley

ANNOUNCEMENTS
OHDSI collaborator meetings – We’re looking for presenters for our weekly community meetings. If you’re interested in sharing your working with the community, please let us know by replying to this thread, or by emailing me at beaton@ohdsi.org.

Training opportunity – The Center for Pharmacoepidemiology Research and Training is offering a free seminar series on drug-drug interactions: http://mailchi.mp/mail/the-health-effects-of-drug-drug-interactions-a-webinar-series?e=3ea48f19e7

2017 OHDSI Symposium – The date and location for the 2017 OHDSI Symposium has been confirmed! This year’s symposium will take place on Wednesday, October 18th at the Bethesda North Marriott. Full-day tutorial sessions will take place on October 19-20th. Registration for the symposium here: https://www.ohdsi.org/symposium-registration/

Call for Sponsorship – Currently we’ve raised $115K in sponsorship funds and are over halfway to our goal of $200K! To reach this goal, we’re reaching out to the entire community for sponsors to support this important event and allow us to build upon the success of past symposia. More details: http://forums.ohdsi.org/t/ohdsi-symposium-2017-call-for-sponsorship/2730?u=maurabeaton

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
– Henry David Thoreau

COMMUNITY PUBLICATIONS
An Interoperable Similarity-based Cohort Identification Method Using the OMOP Common Data Model Version 5.0
http://download.springer.com/static/pdf/899/art%253A10.1007%252Fs41666-017-0005-6.pdf?originUrl=http%3A%2F%2Flink.springer.com%2Farticle%2F10.1007%2Fs41666-017-0005-6&token2=exp=1497897756~acl=%2Fstatic%2Fpdf%2F899%2Fart%25253A10.1007%25252Fs41666-017-0005-6.pdf%3ForiginUrl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Flink.springer.com%252Farticle%252F10.1007%252Fs41666-017-0005-6*~hmac=b01e95eb393fadfb5578faa5e8d7bad3af3dcedf06889f4683240e2c5ef7fd7b

Agreement and validity of electronic health record prescribing data relative to pharmacy claims data: A validation study from a US electronic health record database
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pds.4234/full

Is Crowdsourcing Patient-Reported Outcomes the Future of Evidence-Based Medicine? A Case Study of Back Pain
https://www.springerprofessional.de/is-crowdsourcing-patient-reported-outcomes-the-future-of-evidenc/12355152