Weekly OHDSI Digest – June 10th, 2019

OHDSI MEETINGS THIS WEEK

Gold Standard Phenotype Library WG meeting  – Tuesday at 9am ET
URL: https://gatech.webex.com/webappng/sites/gatech/meeting/info/128704664173552569?MTID=mdd4af3e9b84212fc7df3eb0150703df5

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

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

Common Data Model & Vocabulary WG meeting – Tuesday at 1pm ET
URL: https://jjconferencing.webex.com/webappng/sites/jjconferencing/meeting/info/129892605372712231?MTID=mbaf813b4a880801647e617d06da04ddf

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

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

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 – CALL FOR PARTICIPATION – The deadline to submit abstracts for the collaborator showcase at this year’s symposium is two weeks away! We are accepting admissions for posters, oral presentations and software demonstrations. For more details about submission guidelines and to submit your abstract, please check out our submissions page: https://www.ohdsi.org/collaborator-showcase-submissions/
The deadline for abstract submissions is 8pm ET on Monday, June 24th, 2019.

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 OHDSI Symposium. 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/

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it’s better than no inspiration at all.
Rita Mae Brown

COMMUNITY PUBLICATIONS
Computational Advances in Drug Safety: Systematic and Mapping Review of Knowledge Engineering Based Approaches.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31156424

Role of healthcare databases and registries for surveillance of orphan drugs in the real-world setting: the Italian case study.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31059293

Gradients do grow on trees: a linear-time o(n)-dimensional gradient for statistical phylogenetics
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.12146.pdf

A Data Element-Function Conceptual Model for Data Quality Checks
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6484368/

Comment on “How pharmacoepidemiology networks can manage distributed analyses to improve replicability and transparency and minimize bias”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31066478

Identifying the DEAD: Development and Validation of a Patient-Level Model to Predict Death Status in Population-Level Claims Data
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40264-019-00827-0