Weekly OHDSI Digest – July 16th, 2018

OHDSI MEETINGS THIS WEEK
OHDSI Community Call – Tuesday at 12pm ET
https://meetings.webex.com/collabs/#/meetings/detail?uuid=M59X2V1U61WC9ASID2Z5N3UT95-D1JL&rnd=811649.9868221112121
US TOLL: +1-415-655-0001
Meeting Number: 199 982 907

Architecture Working Group – Thursday at 10am ET
Webex: https://jjconferencing.webex.com/mw3100/mywebex/default.do?service=1&siteurl=jjconferencing&nomenu=true&main_url=%2Fmc3100%2Fe.do%3Fsiteurl%3Djjconferencing%26AT%3DMI%26EventID%3D610982452%26UID%3D501476547%26Host%3DQUhTSwAAAAQu4P1o9qm71JJ1Zj4-uvZbjQttsCinu71JCRxBAHAXnzjjRAiTspTzU9ojLmjMF4CcTBWw4zn1dqYPTWu5vJ9_0%26FrameSet%3D2%26MTID%3Dm3e1ceeca56f1e94c9fcf1ae98c10e02e1

GIS working group meeting – Next Monday (July 23rd) 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

ANNOUNCEMENTS
2018 OHDSI Symposium – REGISTER NOW
Registration is officially open for the 2018 OHDSI Symposium which will take place Friday, October 12th. You can register here: https://www.ohdsi.org/symposium-registration-2/
Please note that registration for symposium tutorials, set to take place on October 11th and 13th is separate from symposium registration.

2018 OHDSI Symposium – TUTORIAL REGISTRATION OPEN
Registration is now open for tutorial sessions at this year’s OHDSI symposium. Intro tutorials will take place on Thursday, October 11th. Advanced tutorials will take place Saturday, October 13th. More information about tutorials is available here:
https://www.ohdsi.org/tutorial-workshops/
https://www.ohdsi.org/tutorial-registration-2/

Intro tutorials are being offered free of cost, however registration does not guarantee a seat in the tutorial. When you register, you will be placed on the tutorial wait-list. The final participant list will be determined by the tutorial faculty.

Advanced tutorials also offer the free wait-list registration. In addition, we are also offering a limited number of paid tickets ($318.17) which will guarantee your seat in the tutorial.

2018 OHDSI Symposium – CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
The OHDSI Symposium Planning Committee are now accepting abstract submissions for the 2018 collaborator showcase. We are inviting collaborators to submit abstracts to present posters, software demonstration or oral presentations during the collaborator showcase which will take place during the main symposium on Friday, October 12th. More details are available here: https://www.ohdsi.org/collaborator-showcase/
Abstract Submissions Due: 5pm on Thursday, August 7, 2018

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
– Sam Levenson

COMMUNITY PUBLICATIONS
Prediction of RNA-protein sequence and structure binding preferences using deep convolutional and recurrent neural networks.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29970003

OpenPVSignal: Advancing Information Search, Sharing and Reuse on Pharmacovigilance Signals via FAIR Principles and Semantic Web Technologies.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29997499

A positive legacy of trauma? A study on the impact of natural disasters on medical utilization.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29982715

Procedure prediction from symbolic Electronic Health Records via time intervals analytics.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28823923