Weekly OHDSI Digest – February 11th, 2019

OHDSI MEETINGS THIS WEEK

Gold Standard Phenotype Library Work Group – Tuesday at 10am ET
https://gatech.webex.com/gatech/j.php?MTID=mc9ce2ca7dd24f76136125934bcab8d09

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

OHDSI Community Call  – Tuesday at 12pm ET
https://meetings.webex.com/collabs/#/meetings/detail?uuid=M59X2V1U61WC9ASID2Z5N3UT95-D1JL&rnd=811649.9868221112121212
US TOLL: +1-415-655-0001
Meeting Number: 199 982 907

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

NLP Work Group – Wednesday at 2pm ET
https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/707196421

Population-Level Estimation (Western hemisphere) Work Group Call  – Thursday at 12pm ET
https://meetings.webex.com/collabs/meetings/join?uuid=M6WE9AOKFETH2VEFPVCZWWBIT0-D1JL

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

ANNOUNCEMENTS

2019 European Symposium  – Registration is open for second annual European Symposium, set to take place March 29th, 2019 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. For more details, including where to register, check out Peter’s post: http://forums.ohdsi.org/t/european-ohdsi-symposium-registration-now-open/5554?u=maurabeaton

2019 OHDSI F2F – SAVE THE DATE! The 2019 OHDSI F2F will 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/

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/

2018 OHDSI Symposium Recording  – Video records from the main symposium are available here: https://www.ohdsi.org/2018-ohdsi-symposium-videos/

2018 Tutorial Recordings
CDM Tutorial: https://www.ohdsi.org/past-events/2018-tutorials-omop-common-data-model-and-standardized-vocabularies/
OHDSI Ecosystem: https://www.ohdsi.org/past-events/2018-tutorials-overview-of-the-ohdsi-analysis-ecosystem
Cohort Definition and Phenotyping Tutorial: https://www.ohdsi.org/past-events/cohort-definitionphenotyping-tutorial/
More tutorials will be posted shortly.

If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.
– Shirley Anita Chisholm

COMMUNITY PUBLICATIONS

Semi-supervised learning to improve generalizability of risk prediction models.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30738948

Patterns and trends of utilization of incretin-based medicines between 2008 and 2014 in three Italian areas.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30732592geographic

ROMOP: a light-weight R package for interfacing with OMOP-formatted electronic health record data
https://academic.oup.com/jamiaopen/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jamiaopen/ooy059/5273643

Metagenomic sequencing at the epicenter of the Nigeria 2018 Lassa fever outbreak
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6422/74.abstract

Penetration of new antidiabetic medications in East Asian countries and the United States: A cross-national comparative study
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0208796

Bayesian hierarchical vector autoregressive models for patient-level predictive modeling
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0208082