Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA

Comparison of a semi-automatic annotation tool and a natural language processing application for the generation of clinical statement entries.

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA Oct 20, 2014

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Electronic medical records with encoded entries should enhance the semantic interoperability of document exchange. However, it remains a challenge to encode the narrative concept and to transform the coded concepts into a st...

Natural Language Processing Electronic Health Records Databases as Topic User-Computer Interface Automation Humans Health Level Seven Algorithms

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A novel method of adverse event detection can accurately identify venous thromboembolisms (VTEs) from narrative electronic health record data.

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA Oct 20, 2014

BACKGROUND: Venous thromboembolisms (VTEs), which include deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE), are associated with significant mortality, morbidity, and cost in hospitalized patients. To evaluate the success of preventive measures,...

Hospitalization Support Vector Machine Humans Electronic Health Records Natural Language Processing Venous Thromboembolism Pulmonary Embolism

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Quantifying care coordination using natural language processing and domain-specific ontology.

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA Oct 16, 2014

OBJECTIVE: This research identifies specific care coordination activities used by Aging in Place (AIP) nurse care coordinators and home healthcare (HHC) nurses when coordinating care for older community-dwelling adults and suggests a method to quanti...

Home Health Nursing Patient Care Management Biological Ontologies Nursing Records Aged Narration Natural Language Processing Datasets as Topic Humans Electronic Health Records

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Evaluating the state of the art in disorder recognition and normalization of the clinical narrative.

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA Aug 21, 2014

OBJECTIVE: The ShARe/CLEF eHealth 2013 Evaluation Lab Task 1 was organized to evaluate the state of the art on the clinical text in (i) disorder mention identification/recognition based on Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) definition (Task 1a) a...

Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Biological Ontologies Unified Medical Language System Disease Datasets as Topic Information Storage and Retrieval Electronic Health Records Natural Language Processing Humans Vocabulary, Controlled

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Automated clinical trial eligibility prescreening: increasing the efficiency of patient identification for clinical trials in the emergency department.

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA Jul 16, 2014

OBJECTIVES: (1) To develop an automated eligibility screening (ES) approach for clinical trials in an urban tertiary care pediatric emergency department (ED); (2) to assess the effectiveness of natural language processing (NLP), information extractio...

Clinical Trials as Topic Eligibility Determination Artificial Intelligence Emergency Service, Hospital Patient Selection Humans Natural Language Processing Efficiency, Organizational Information Storage and Retrieval

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