Weekly OHDSI Digest – March 25th, 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=96139.930901412523321531221112212141232121131213113112112121536

Women of OHDSI – Tuesday at 2pm ET
https://meetings.webex.com/collabs/#/meetings/detail?uuid=M92ACRLNGM2A7RRJK5B9SCHK2C-D1JL

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

ATLAS Work Group Meeting  – Wednesday at 10am ET
http://forums.ohdsi.org/uploads/default/original/2X/d/db9e391b787fee3d6466d8b1d476dfa5d6bc90fe.ico

Population-Level Estimation WG (Western Hemisphere) WG call –  Thursday at 12pm ET
https://meetings.webex.com/collabs/#/meetings/detail?uuid=M3T9BZV9RSB6YNDM8WDDZMI19D-D1JL

GIS Work Group Meeting  – Monday (April 1st) at 10am ET
https://tufts.webex.com/webappng/sites/tufts/meeting/info/122271642190618839?MTID=m243d8e9a9c6c2d42d5182aeb5d30efdb

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 European Symposium  – This year’s European Symposium is happening this Friday, March 29th, 2019 in Rotterdam, Netherlands! For more details, check out the event page here: http://ohdsi-europe.org/index.php/symposium-2019

2019 OHDSI F2F – REGISTRATION OPEN!  Register now for the 2019 OHDSI F2F, set to 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/
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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 Recordings  – 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/
Patient-Level Prediction Tutorial: https://www.ohdsi.org/past-events/patient-level-prediction/
Population-Level Estimation Tutorial: https://www.ohdsi.org/past-events/population-level-estimation/
Data Quality: https://www.ohdsi.org/past-events/data-quality/

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no  education  at all
Aristotle

COMMUNITY PUBLICATIONS

Exosome Proteomics and Machine Learning Identify Novel Biomarkers of Primary Graft Dysfunction
https://www.jhltonline.org/article/S1053-2498(19)30326-2/fulltext

Prior-preconditioned conjugate gradient method for accelerated Gibbs sampling in “large n & large p” sparse Bayesian regression
http://scholar.google.com/scholar_url?url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Akihiko_Nishimura2/publication/328627413_Prior-preconditioned_conjugate_gradient_method_for_accelerated_Gibbs_sampling_in_large_n_large_p_sparse_Bayesian_regression/links/5c844b1d299bf1268d4c7a81/Prior-preconditioned-conjugate-gradient-method-for-accelerated-Gibbs-sampling-in-large-n-large-p-sparse-Bayesian-regression.pdf&hl=en&sa=X&d=13362712109883823307&scisig=AAGBfm19kPZa8KJOsTdRjOyVIJct6X8MUg&nossl=1&oi=scholaralrt&hist=YvFCadcAAAAJ:3885198106591986066:AAGBfm2ExXJ2yO1hrVfwEHFb4ooPsaltAQ

On the convergence of the maximum likelihood estimator for the transition rate under a 2-state symmetric model
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.03919.pdf

Comparative analysis of EHR-based stroke phenotyping methods, their applications, and interpretation
https://europepmc.org/abstract/ppr/ppr72544