Weekly OHDSI Digest – July 22nd, 2019

OHDSI MEETINGS THIS WEEK

Gold Standard Phenotype Library WG meeting  – Tuesday at 10am ET
URL: https://gatech.webex.com/webappng/sites/gatech/meeting/info/128704664173552569?MTID=mdd4af3e9b84212fc7df3eb0150703df5

The Book of OHDSI working group meeting  – Tuesday at 11am ET
Zoom URL: https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/j/258043190

OHDSI Community Call  – Tuesday at 12pm ET
URL: https://meetings.webex.com/collabs/#/meetings/detail?uuid=M59X2V1U61WC9ASID2Z5N3UT95-D1JL&rnd=96139.930901412523321531221112212141232121131213113112112121536

Pharmacovigilance Evidence Investigation (PEI) Working Group  – Wednesday at 9am ET
URL: https://meet.lync.com/jnj-its/evoss3/Q7P48H1D

ATLAS workgroup meeting  – Wednesday at 10am ET
URL: https://jjconferencing.webex.com/webappng/sites/jjconferencing/meeting/info/129429150951851372?MTID=mca074ae1ff6eb7d80245d36b59188c80

ACHILLES 2.0 Working Group Meeting – Wednesday at 2pm ET
URL: https://meet.lync.com/jnj-its/alondhe2/SQJ07PJ4

Patient-Level Prediction WG – Wednesday at 2pm ET
URL: https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/972917661

Population-Level Estimation WG (Eastern Hemisphere)  – Thursday at 4pm in South Korea*
URL: https://meetings.webex.com/collabs/#/meetings/detail?uuid=M3T9BZV9RSB6YNDM8WDDZMI19D-D1JL

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

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

You can find a full list of upcoming OHDSI meetings here: 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 Symposium – Titan Awards  To recognize OHDSI collaborators (or collaborating institutions) for their contributions towards OHDSI’s mission, we will be holding the second annual OHDSI Titan Awards at this year’s symposium. From now until August 6th we are inviting community members to nominate individuals or institutions they feel have made significant contributions towards advancing OHDSI’s mission, vision and values. Award winners will be announced before the networking reception at this year’s symposium on Monday, September 16th. Submit your nominations here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc5d9G-KEW5G9wS2S5qxe8iGtsRVEHeMxDvwCCuj-Rg0qZYpw/viewform
Deadline to submit nominations is 5pm ET on August 6th

2019 OHDSI Symposium – ABSTRACT SUBMISSION  – Thank you to everyone who submitted an abstract for this year’s collaborator showcase. All abstracts are currently being reviewed. All abstract authors will be notified and sent feedback by August 5th.

2019 OHDSI Symposium – CREATIVE SUBMISSIONS  – In addition to scientific submissions for the collaborator showcase, we’re also accepting creative submissions. We want to give collaborators a chance to showcase their special talents! This could include, playing a musical instrument, singing, an interpretive dance, or an OHDSI-inspired painting. For more information about creative submissions, please check out our creative submissions page:
https://www.ohdsi.org/creative-submissions/
The deadline for creative submission is 5pm ET on Monday, August 12th, 2019

2019 OHDSI Symposium – TUTORIALS  Registration is now open for tutorials at this year’s OHDSISymposium. Tutorials are set to take September 15th and 17th. More details about tutorials being offered is available here: https://www.ohdsi.org/tutorialworkshops2019/
Register for tutorials here: https://www.ohdsi.org/tutorialregistration2019/

Normal is in the eye of the beholder.
Whoopi Goldberg

COMMUNITY PUBLICATIONS

Fast Algorithms and Theory for High-Dimensional Bayesian Varying Coefficient Models
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.06477.pdf

Genomic Information for Clinicians in the Electronic Health Record: Lessons Learned from ClinGen and eMERGE
http://scholar.google.com/scholar_url?url=https://osf.io/5rbdw/download%3Fformat%3Dpdf&hl=en&sa=X&d=12668395760100591929&scisig=AAGBfm2Z5wdXx6KwErvzIeu00Kw18nimPg&nossl=1&oi=scholaralrt&hist=YvFCadcAAAAJ:14422667889212240507:AAGBfm3RzIFI306ZmHd8w3W2BBc0c1BKfg

Facilitating phenotype transfer using a common data model.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31325501

Disease associations depend on visit type: results from a visit-wide association study
https://biodatamining.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13040-019-0203-2