Weekly OHDSI Digest – April 29th, 2019

OHDSI MEETINGS THIS WEEK

THEMIS Work Group Meeting  – Tuesday at 10am ET
Meeting URL: https://meet.lync.com/quintiles-quintilesims/mui.vanzandt/7Z24VJ8Z

The Book of OHDSI Work Group Meeting  – Tuesday at 11am ET
Zoom URL: https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/j/258043190

OHDSI Community Call  – NO COMMUNITY CALL THIS WEEK

ATLAS Work Group Meeting  – Wednesday at 10am ET
URL: https://jjconferencing.webex.com/jjconferencing/j.php?MTID=mca074ae1ff6eb7d80245d36b59188c80

Population-Level Estimation WG (Eastern Hemisphere)  – Wednesday at 4pm in South Korea
https://meetings.webex.com/collabs/#/meetings/detail?uuid=M2BOELZW9TS43OIQULPZSBH67C-D1JL&rnd=728199.28069

EHR Work Group Meeting  – Friday at 10am ET
Meeting URL: https://ucdenver.zoom.us/j/4984831362

Metadata and Annotations WG –  Friday at 2pmET
https://jjconferencing.webex.com/meet/alondhe2

GIS Working Group Meeting  – Next Monday (May 6th) at 10am ET
Meeting Number: 735 317 239
Password: gaia
URL: https://tufts.webex.com/webappng/sites/tufts/meeting/info/126710310532817398?MTID=m243d8e9a9c6c2d42d5182aeb5d30efdb

You can find a full list of upcoming OHDSI meetings here:
URL: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X0oa9R-V8cwpF1WQZDJOqcXZguPKRiCZ6XrQ2zXMiuQ/edit

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Looking for presenters for upcoming OHDSI community calls We are looking for collaborators to share their work on upcoming OHDSI calls. If you are interested in presenting on an upcoming OHDSI call please email me at beaton@ohdsi.org

2019 OHDSI F2F – REGISTRATION OPEN! Register now for the 2019 OHDSI F2F, set to take place on June 3-4th 2019 at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. For more details check out the event page: https://www.ohdsi.org/events/2019-ohdsi-face-to-face/
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THEMIS F2F  – Registration for the 2019 THEMIS F2F is open! This year’s F2F will take place May 14-15th at the University of Colorado. For me details check out our event page: https://www.ohdsi.org/events/themis-f2f/

2019 OHDSI Symposium – SAVE THE DATE!  – It’s official! The 2019 OHDSI Symposium will take place on September 15-17th 2019 at the Bethesda North Marriott & Conference Center. The main symposium will be Monday, September 16th with tutorials on September 15th and 17th. For more information, check out the 2019 OHDSI Symposium event page: https://www.ohdsi.org/events/2019-ohdsi-symposium/

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
– T. S. Eliot

COMMUNITY PUBLICATIONS
BEAGLE 3: Improved Performance, Scaling, and Usability for a High-Performance Computing Library for Statistical Phylogenetics
https://academic.oup.com/sysbio/advance-article/doi/10.1093/sysbio/syz020/5477405

Optimal Embeddings for Clinical Notes Using Word2Vec
https://childhealthopenresearch.org.uk/slides/8-515

Bayesian inference of evolutionary histories under time-dependent substitution rates
https://academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-article/doi/10.1093/molbev/msz094/5475507

Adding Cognition to the Semanticscience Integrated Ontology
http://edelweisspublications.com/edelweiss/article/adding-cognition-semanticscience-integrated-ontology-2638-8073-poa-19-103.pdf

Evaluation of the cost and effectiveness of diverse recruitment methods for a genetic screening study
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41436-019-0497-y