OHDSI Digest – October 23rd, 2017

OHDSI MEETINGS THIS WEEK
OHDSI Community Call – Tuesday at 12pm ET
https://meetings.webex.com/collabs/#/meetings/detail?uuid=M59X2V1U61WC9ASID2Z5N3UT95-D1JL&rnd=811649.986822
US TOLL: +1-415-655-0001
Meeting Number: 199 982 907

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

Population-Level Estimation (Western hemisphere) workgroup meeting – Thursday at 12pm ET
https://meetings.webex.com/collabs/#/meetings/detail?uuid=M3T9BZV9RSB6YNDM8WDDZMI19D-D1JL&occurrenceID=1501776000000

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

GIS working group meeting – Monday (October 30th) 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%3Dm243d8e9a9c6c2d42d5182aeb5d30efdb1
Meeting Number: 735 317 239
Password: gaia

ANNOUNCEMENTS
2017 OHDSI Symposium Materials – Presentation slides from this year’s symposium and tutorials have been uploaded here: https://www.ohdsi.org/past-events/

Symposium Videos – Recordings from the symposium and tutorial will be made available on November 1st here: https://www.ohdsi.org/past-events/

Computers make me totally blank out.
– Dalai Lama

COMMUNITY PUBLICATIONS
Uncovering exposures responsible for birth season–disease effects: a global study
https://academic.oup.com/jamia/article/doi/10.1093/jamia/ocx105/4265709/Uncovering-exposures-responsible-for-birth-season

Personal Discovery in Diabetes Self-Management: Discovering Cause and Effect Using Self-Monitoring Data
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28974460

Extracting information from free-text electronic patient records to identify practice-based evidence of the performance of coronary stents.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28800599

Identifiers for the 21st century: How to design, provision, and reuse persistent identifiers to maximize utility and impact of life science data.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28662064

Calcium Channel Blockers in Secondary Cardiovascular Prevention and Risk of Acute Events: Real-World Evidence from Nested Case-Control Studies on Italian Hypertensive Elderly.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28975522