Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Apr 15, 2015
OBJECTIVES: This review examines work on automated summarization of electronic health record (EHR) data and in particular, individual patient record summarization. We organize the published research and highlight methodological challenges in the area...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Apr 9, 2015
OBJECTIVE: Extracting medical knowledge from electronic medical records requires automated approaches to combat scalability limitations and selection biases. However, existing machine learning approaches are often regarded by clinicians as black boxe...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Mar 9, 2015
OBJECTIVE: Social media is becoming increasingly popular as a platform for sharing personal health-related information. This information can be utilized for public health monitoring tasks, particularly for pharmacovigilance, via the use of natural la...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Feb 10, 2015
INTRODUCTION: The semantic interoperability of electronic healthcare records (EHRs) systems is a major challenge in the medical informatics area. International initiatives pursue the use of semantically interoperable clinical models, and ontologies h...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Feb 5, 2015
OBJECTIVE: For many literature review tasks, including systematic review (SR) and other aspects of evidence-based medicine, it is important to know whether an article describes a randomized controlled trial (RCT). Current manual annotation is not com...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Oct 31, 2014
OBJECTIVE: Pooling data across biobanks is necessary to increase statistical power, reveal more subtle associations, and synergize the value of data sources. However, searching for desired data elements among the thousands of available elements and h...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Oct 28, 2014
BACKGROUND: Radiology reports are usually narrative, unstructured text, a format which hinders the ability to input report contents into decision support systems. In addition, reports often describe multiple lesions, and it is challenging to automati...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Oct 21, 2014
OBJECTIVE: The trade-off between the speed and simplicity of dictionary-based term recognition and the richer linguistic information provided by more advanced natural language processing (NLP) is an area of active discussion in clinical informatics. ...