Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 21, 2019
Prescription information and adverse drug reactions (ADR) are two components of detailed medication instructions that can benefit many aspects of clinical research. Automatic extraction of this information from free-text narratives via Information Ex...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 21, 2019
An attractive feature of non-lattice-based ontology auditing methods is its ability to not only identify potential quality issues, but also automatically generate the corresponding fixes. However, exhaustive manual evaluation of the validity of sugge...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 21, 2019
To provide the best treatment, a physician needs information about both the patient and the medicines matching the patient status and improving it. In this article, we present three methods for structuring the sections of medical prospectuses using n...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 21, 2019
OBJECTIVE: To characterize the scientific reproducibility of biomedical research studies by query and analysis of semantic provenance graphs generated from provenance metadata terms extracted from PubMed articles.
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 21, 2019
In sub-Saharan African countries the prevention and control of epidemic diseases requires the improvement of the surveillance system for these diseases. Biomedical ontologies are a growing field that can improve health information systems. Indeed bio...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 21, 2019
Clinical text de-identification enables collaborative research while protecting patient privacy and confidentiality; however, concerns persist about the reduction in the utility of the de-identified text for information extraction and machine learnin...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 21, 2019
Although a number of foundational natural language processing (NLP) tasks like text segmentation are considered a simple problem in the general English domain dominated by well-formed text, complexities of clinical documentation lead to poor performa...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 21, 2019
PICO (Population/problem, Intervention, Comparison, and Outcome) is widely adopted for formulating clinical questions to retrieve evidence from the literature. It plays a crucial role in Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM). This paper contributes a scalabl...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 21, 2019
Frequent utilization of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is associated with higher costs and decreased availability for patients who urgently need it. Common risk assessment tool, like the ASA score, lack objectivity and do account only for some influen...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 21, 2019
Laboratory data collected in the electronic health record as part of routine care can be used in secondary research. For example, the US Department of Veterans Affairs maintains a data warehouse covering over 20 million individuals and 6.6 billion la...
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