The western journal of emergency medicine
Sep 1, 2023
Social determinants of health (SDoH) are known to impact the health and well-being of patients. However, information regarding them is not always collected in healthcare interactions, and healthcare professionals are not always well-trained or equip...
Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM
May 8, 2023
Social factors impact morbidity and mortality among patients. Documenting social needs in the clinical notes is currently widely done by family physicians. The unstructured format of information on social factors in electronic health records limits t...
Journal of the American College of Surgeons
May 1, 2022
The robotic platform offers many benefits to patients and surgeons; however, incorporating this new surgical tool has also introduced challenges in intraoperative documentation accuracy. In 2019, we began to investigate our institution's robotic intr...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 14, 2022
Ontologies promise more benefits than terminologies in terms of data annotation and computer-assisted reasoning, by defining a hierarchy of terms and their relations within a domain. Here, we present central insights related to the development of an ...
Most states have legalized medical cannabis, yet little is known about how medical cannabis use is documented in patients' electronic health records (EHRs). We used natural language processing (NLP) to calculate the prevalence of clinician-documente...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 27, 2021
The automation of medical documentation is a highly desirable process, especially as it could avert significant temporal and monetary expenses in healthcare. With the help of complex modelling and high computational capability, Automatic Speech Recog...