INTRODUCTION: The objective of this study was to develop a semiautomated approach to screening cases that describe hazards associated with the electronic health record (EHR) from a mandatory, population-based patient safety reporting system.
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Several kinds of event log data produced in daily clinical activities have yet to be used for secure and efficient improvement of hospital activities. Data Warehouse systems in Hospital Information Systems used for the analysis of structured data suc...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Chemical-induced disease relations (CID) are crucial in various biomedical tasks. In the CID task of Biocreative V, no classifiers with multiple kernels have been developed. In this study, a multiple kernel learning-boosting (MKLB) method is proposed...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Smoking is a significant risk factor for initiation and progression of oral diseases. A patient's current smoking status and tobacco dependency can aid clinical decision making and treatment planning. The free-text nature of this data limits accessib...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Disease ontology, defined as a causal chain of abnormal states, is believed to be a valuable knowledge base in medical information systems. Automatic mapping between electronic health records (EHR) and disease ontology is indispensable for applying d...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Extracting and understanding information, themes and relationships from large collections of documents is an important task for biomedical researchers. Latent Dirichlet Allocation is an unsupervised topic modeling technique using the bag-of-words ass...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
There is need for cataloging signs and symptoms, but not all are documented in structured data. The text from clinical records are an additional source of signs and symptoms. We describe a Natural Language Processing (NLP) technique to identify sympt...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Prior knowledge of the distributional characteristics of linguistic phenomena can be useful for a variety of language processing tasks. This paper describes the distribution of negation in two types of biomedical texts: scientific journal articles an...
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