Accuracy of medication data in electronic health records (EHRs) is crucial for patient care and research, but many studies have shown that medication lists frequently contain errors. In contrast, physicians often pay more attention to the clinical no...
BACKGROUND: Modern day otolaryngology has expanded beyond the ear, nose and throat to include head and neck surgery and aesthetic facial procedures. Photographic documentation is important within this expanded horizon. The spectrum of clinical photog...
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...
BACKGROUND: Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELNs) are used to document experiments and investigations in the wet-lab. Protocols in ELNs contain a detailed description of the conducted steps including the necessary information to understand the proce...
Studies in health technology and informatics
35062118
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 ...
Journal of the American College of Surgeons
35426413
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...
BACKGROUND: Clinical procedures are often performed in outpatient clinics without prior scheduling at the administrative level, and documentation of the procedure often occurs solely in free-text clinical electronic notes. Natural language processing...
International journal of medical informatics
36577203
BACKGROUND: Cognitive tests and biomarkers are the key information to assess the severity and track the progression of Alzheimer's' disease (AD) and AD-related dementias (AD/ADRD), yet, both are often only documented in clinical narratives of patient...