Overview of the 2022 n2c2 shared task on contextualized medication event extraction in clinical notes.

Journal: Journal of biomedical informatics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: An accurate medication history, foundational for providing quality medical care, requires understanding of medication change events documented in clinical notes. However, extracting medication changes without the necessary clinical context is insufficient for real-world applications.

Authors

  • Diwakar Mahajan
    IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, USA.
  • Jennifer J Liang
    IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA.
  • Ching-Huei Tsou
    IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA.
  • Ozlem Uzuner
    Department of Information Studies, University at Albany, SUNY. Albany, NY.