Practical use case of natural language processing for observational clinical research data retrieval from electronic health records: AssistMED project.

Journal: Polish archives of internal medicine
Published Date: Mar 19, 2024

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Electronic health records (EHRs) contain data valuable for clinical research. However, they are in textual format and require manual encoding to databases, which is a lengthy and costly process. Natural language processing (NLP) is a computational technique that allows for text analysis.

Authors

  • Cezary Maciejewski
    1st Chair and Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Warsaw, 02-091 Warszawa, Poland; Doctoral School, Medical University of Warsaw, 02-091 Warszawa, Poland; Department of Medical Informatics and Telemedicine, Medical University of Warsaw, 02-091 Warszawa, Poland.
  • Krzysztof Ozierański
    1st Chair and Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Warsaw, 02-091 Warszawa, Poland. Electronic address: krzysztof.ozieranski@wum.edu.pl.
  • Mikołaj Basza
    Medical University of Silesia, Poniatowskiego St. 15, 40-055, Katowice, Poland.
  • Adam Barwiołek
    Codifive sp. z o.o., Lindleya 16, 02-013 Warszawa, Poland.
  • Michalina Ciurla
    1st Chair and Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Warsaw, 02-091 Warszawa, Poland.
  • Aleksandra Bożym
    1st Chair and Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Warsaw, 02-091 Warszawa, Poland.
  • Maciej J Krajsman
    Department of Medical Informatics and Telemedicine, Medical University of Warsaw, Warszawa, Poland
  • Piotr Lodziński
    1st Chair and Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Warsaw, 02-091 Warszawa, Poland.
  • Grzegorz Opolski
    1st Chair and Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Warsaw, 02-091 Warszawa, Poland.
  • Marcin Grabowski
    1st Chair and Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Warsaw, 02-091 Warszawa, Poland.
  • Andrzej Cacko
    1st Chair and Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Warsaw, 02-091 Warszawa, Poland; Department of Medical Informatics and Telemedicine, Medical University of Warsaw, 02-091 Warszawa, Poland.
  • Paweł Balsam
    1st Chair and Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Warsaw, 02-091 Warszawa, Poland.

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