Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Nov 1, 2017
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...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Sep 1, 2017
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 ...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Sep 1, 2017
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 ...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jul 1, 2017
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...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jul 1, 2017
OBJECTIVE: To compare 3 commercial knowledge bases (KBs) used for detection and avoidance of potential drug-drug interactions (DDIs) in clinical practice.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jul 1, 2017
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.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jul 1, 2017
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...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jul 1, 2017
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...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
May 1, 2017
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...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
May 1, 2017
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...
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