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International journal of medical informatics

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Subject-enabled analytics model on measurement statistics in health risk expert system for public health informatics.

International journal of medical informatics
PURPOSE: This study applied open source technology to establish a subject-enabled analytics model that can enhance measurement statistics of case studies with the public health data in cloud computing.

Active learning reduces annotation time for clinical concept extraction.

International journal of medical informatics
OBJECTIVE: To investigate: (1) the annotation time savings by various active learning query strategies compared to supervised learning and a random sampling baseline, and (2) the benefits of active learning-assisted pre-annotations in accelerating th...

Impact of predicting health-guidance candidates using massive health check-up data: A data-driven analysis.

International journal of medical informatics
INTRODUCTION: Starting in 2008, specific health checkups and health guidance to prevent non-communicable diseases have been provided in Japan, which has the highest proportion of elderly citizens in the world. The attendance rate for health guidance ...

A comparison of rule-based and machine learning approaches for classifying patient portal messages.

International journal of medical informatics
OBJECTIVE: Secure messaging through patient portals is an increasingly popular way that consumers interact with healthcare providers. The increasing burden of secure messaging can affect clinic staffing and workflows. Manual management of portal mess...

Automated problem list generation and physicians perspective from a pilot study.

International journal of medical informatics
OBJECTIVE: An accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date problem list can help clinicians provide patient-centered care. Unfortunately, problem lists created and maintained in electronic health records by providers tend to be inaccurate, duplicative and ...

Integrating natural language processing expertise with patient safety event review committees to improve the analysis of medication events.

International journal of medical informatics
OBJECTIVES: Many healthcare providers have implemented patient safety event reporting systems to better understand and improve patient safety. Reviewing and analyzing these reports is often time consuming and resource intensive because of both the qu...

Creation of a simple natural language processing tool to support an imaging utilization quality dashboard.

International journal of medical informatics
BACKGROUND: Testing for venous thromboembolism (VTE) is associated with cost and risk to patients (e.g. radiation). To assess the appropriateness of imaging utilization at the provider level, it is important to know that provider's diagnostic yield (...

Causality patterns and machine learning for the extraction of problem-action relations in discharge summaries.

International journal of medical informatics
Clinical narrative text includes information related to a patient's medical history such as chronological progression of medical problems and clinical treatments. A chronological view of a patient's history makes clinical audits easier and improves q...

Software intelligent system for effective solutions for hearing impaired subjects.

International journal of medical informatics
PURPOSE: The anatomy and physiology of the ear is complex in nature, which makes it a challenge for audiologists to prescribe solutions for varied hearing-impaired subjects. There is a need to increase the satisfaction level of hearing-aid users by a...

A machine learning-based framework to identify type 2 diabetes through electronic health records.

International journal of medical informatics
OBJECTIVE: To discover diverse genotype-phenotype associations affiliated with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) via genome-wide association study (GWAS) and phenome-wide association study (PheWAS), more cases (T2DM subjects) and controls (subjects wit...