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Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA

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EliIE: An open-source information extraction system for clinical trial eligibility criteria.

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
OBJECTIVE: To develop an open-source information extraction system called Eligibility Criteria Information Extraction (EliIE) for parsing and formalizing free-text clinical research eligibility criteria (EC) following Observational Medical Outcomes P...

Challenges in adapting existing clinical natural language processing systems to multiple, diverse health care settings.

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
OBJECTIVE: Widespread application of clinical natural language processing (NLP) systems requires taking existing NLP systems and adapting them to diverse and heterogeneous settings. We describe the challenges faced and lessons learned in adapting an ...

Development of an automated assessment tool for MedWatch reports in the FDA adverse event reporting system.

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
OBJECTIVE: As the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) receives over a million adverse event reports associated with medication use every year, a system is needed to aid FDA safety evaluators in identifying reports most likely to demonstrate causal ...

Deep learning for pharmacovigilance: recurrent neural network architectures for labeling adverse drug reactions in Twitter posts.

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
OBJECTIVE: Social media is an important pharmacovigilance data source for adverse drug reaction (ADR) identification. Human review of social media data is infeasible due to data quantity, thus natural language processing techniques are necessary. Soc...

Comparison of three commercial knowledge bases for detection of drug-drug interactions in clinical decision support.

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
OBJECTIVE: To compare 3 commercial knowledge bases (KBs) used for detection and avoidance of potential drug-drug interactions (DDIs) in clinical practice.

Automated classification of eligibility criteria in clinical trials to facilitate patient-trial matching for specific patient populations.

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
OBJECTIVE: To develop automated classification methods for eligibility criteria in ClinicalTrials.gov to facilitate patient-trial matching for specific populations such as persons living with HIV or pregnant women.

MetaMap Lite: an evaluation of a new Java implementation of MetaMap.

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
MetaMap is a widely used named entity recognition tool that identifies concepts from the Unified Medical Language System Metathesaurus in text. This study presents MetaMap Lite, an implementation of some of the basic MetaMap functions in Java. On sev...

Automatic health record review to help prioritize gravely ill Social Security disability applicants.

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
OBJECTIVE: Every year, thousands of patients die waiting for disability benefits from the Social Security Administration. Some qualify for expedited service under the Compassionate Allowance (CAL) initiative, but CAL software focuses exclusively on i...

De-identification of patient notes with recurrent neural networks.

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
OBJECTIVE: Patient notes in electronic health records (EHRs) may contain critical information for medical investigations. However, the vast majority of medical investigators can only access de-identified notes, in order to protect the confidentiality...

The cancer precision medicine knowledge base for structured clinical-grade mutations and interpretations.

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
OBJECTIVE: This paper describes the Precision Medicine Knowledge Base (PMKB; https://pmkb.weill.cornell.edu ), an interactive online application for collaborative editing, maintenance, and sharing of structured clinical-grade cancer mutation interpre...