Weekly OHDSI Digest – June 25th, 2018

OHDSI MEETINGS THIS WEEK
OHDSI Community Call – Tuesday at 12pm ET
https://meetings.webex.com/collabs/#/meetings/detail?uuid=M59X2V1U61WC9ASID2Z5N3UT95-D1JL&rnd=811649.986822111212
US TOLL: +1-415-655-0001
Meeting Number: 199 982 907

Population-Level Estimation (Eastern hemisphere) workgroup meeting – Wednesday at 3pm Hong Kong time
https://meetings.webex.com/collabs/meetings/join?uuid=M6WE9AOKFETH2VEFPVCZWWBIT0-D1JL

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%3Dm3e1ceeca56f1e94c9fcf1ae98c10e02e

GIS working group meeting – Next Monday (July 2nd) 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 – 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 – 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/

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/

Moving Study Materials to Github
We currently in the process of consolidating all OHDSI study materials on the OHDSI github and will be retiring the wiki page within the next few days. If you have study materials on the OHDSI wiki, please move them here: https://github.com/OHDSI/StudyProtocolSandbox
Completed studies should be moved here:
https://github.com/OHDSI/StudyProtocols

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.
– Taylor Swift

COMMUNITY PUBLICATIONS
Tissue‐Specific Analysis of Pharmacological Pathways
https://ascpt.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/psp4.12305

OpenPVSignal: Advancing Pharmacovigilance Signals Information Search, Sharing and Reuse via FAIR Principles and Semantic Web Technologies
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphar.2018.00609/abstract

“Minimally invasive research?” Use of the electronic health record to facilitate research in pediatric urology.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29929853

Can Electronic Health Records Databases Complement Spontaneous Reporting System Databases? A Historical-Reconstruction of the Association of Rofecoxib and Acute Myocardial Infarction.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29928230

Comprehensive comparison of monotherapies for psychiatric hospitalization risk in bipolar disorders.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29920885

Low Rates of Screening for Celiac Disease Among Family Members.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29913278