Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
We investigate options for grouping templates for the purpose of template identification and extraction from electronic medical records. We sampled a corpus of 1000 documents originating from Veterans Health Administration (VA) electronic medical rec...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Routine patient data in electronic patient records are only partly structured, and an even smaller segment is coded, mainly for administrative purposes. Large parts are only available as free text. Transforming this content into a structured and sema...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
"A solid ontology-based analysis with a rigorous formal mapping for correctness" is one of the ten reasons why the HL7 standard Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is advertised to be better than other standards for EHR interoperability...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Secondary use of clinical data for research requires a method to quickly process the data so that researchers can quickly extract cohorts. We present two advances in the High Throughput Phenotyping NLP system which support the aim of truly high throu...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Clinical guidelines and clinical pathways are accepted and proven instruments for quality assurance and process optimization. Today, electronic representation of clinical guidelines exists as unstructured text, but is not well-integrated with patient...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are now being massively used in hospitals what has motivated current developments of new methods to process clinical narratives (unstructured data) making it possible to perform context-based searches. Current approac...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
The mapping of unstructured clinical text to an ontology facilitates meaningful secondary use of health records but is non-trivial due to lexical variation and the abundance of misspellings in hurriedly produced notes. Here, we apply several spelling...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Obscuring protected health information (PHI) in the clinical text of health records facilitates the secondary use of healthcare data in a privacy-preserving manner. Although automatic de-identification of clinical text using machine learning holds mu...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Identifying similar patients might greatly facilitate the treatment of a given patient, enabling to observe the response and outcome to a particular treatment. Case-based retrieval services dealing with natural language processing are of major import...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Clinical care and research data are widely dispersed in isolated systems based on heterogeneous data models. Biomedicine predominantly makes use of connected datasets based on the Semantic Web paradigm. Initiatives like Bio2RDF created Resource Descr...
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