Extracting Housing and Food Insecurity Information From Clinical Notes Using cTAKES.

Journal: Health services research
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To assess the utility and challenges of using natural language processing (NLP) in electronic health records (EHRs) to ascertain health-related social needs (HRSNs) among older adults.

Authors

  • Min Hee Kim
    Department of Ophthalmology, Otolaryngology, and Dermatology, Kyung Hee University College of Korean Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Hospital at Gangdong, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
  • Silvia Miramontes
    Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
  • Shivani Mehta
    Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
  • Gabriel L Schwartz
    Department of Health Management & Policy, Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
  • Ye Ji Kim
    Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
  • Yulin Yang
  • Tanisha G Hill-Jarrett
    Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
  • Nicolas Cevallos
    School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
  • Ruijia Chen
    Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
  • M Maria Glymour
    Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Erin L Ferguson
    Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
  • Scott C Zimmerman
    Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
  • Minhyuk Choi
    Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
  • Kendra D Sims
    Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.