Community Meeting 9June2015

Good afternoon everyone,

Here is the agenda for Tuesday’s community call:

  1. Introductions
  2. General updates
    OHDSI Symposium - Register here: http://www.ohdsi.org/events/ohdsi-symposium-2015/
    Interest in forming a symposium WG?
  3. Updates/questions from working groups:

Phenotype WG - Nigam Shah
Who can test models for two conditions that we have built?
Who can include text data into the CDM v5, and by when, to build models for two more phenotypes?
Who can volunteer to build models without text data, and quantify the gain/loss in performance?

LAERTES - Rich Boyce

CDM Development - Christian Reich
Vocabulary Improvement - Christian Reich

CMS/Medicare - Mark Danese

Heracles WG - Questions for the group:
Have you have built cohorts through Circe or other means?
How are you currently exploring your cohorts? What are the major use cases?
Have you tried installing HERACLES (either via OLYMPUS or directly from GitHub)?

If there is anything else you would like to discuss, please reply to this thread.

Have a great weekend!
Maura

Maura,

I will not be able to make this meeting but I look forward to a follow up discussion on Heracles. I invite those who are working through the cohort analysis process (using Heracles or otherwise) to post on the forums and let us know what their experience has been.

Thanks,

Jon

All, I am a new member joining in today, and hope to contribute to all types of predictive/descriptive modeling efforts (Plato/Homer/…) and participate in the Phenotype WG.
Maura has already posted my profile on the OHDSI collaborators list, more gory details at
http://hercules.ece.utexas.edu/ghosh/

Joydeep Ghosh
ECE/CS/BME/McCombs, UT Austin

Welcome @joydeep to OHDSI! Note that in addition to the Phenotype WG lead by @nigam, there is also some NLP-based phentoype activities happening within @Hua Xu’s new NLP WG.

Best,
Jon

Thanks for the welcome, Jon. Hua is within driving distance and I met him
at AMIA SF.
I wrote several statistical NLP papers 15 years back, but at this point I
mostly apply existing NLP techniques rather than develop new ones, as this
area has taken a life of its own. So this is a natural partnership.
regards,

Joydeep Ghosh
Schlumberger Centennial Chaired Professor
Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Texas at Austin,
1 Univ. Station C0803, Austin, TX 78712

http://www.ideal.ece.utexas.edu/ghosh
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