Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
To translate the 11th edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) into French, we proposed a lexical approach using Natural Language Processing techniques. This method relies on the 56 biomedical terminologies and ontologies incl...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
Decision support systems, as means of disseminating clinical practice guidelines, are powerful software that may lead to an improvement of medical practices. However, they are not always efficient and may suffer from limitations among which are lack ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
Ask the doctor services are personalized forums allowing patients to ask questions directly to doctors. Usually, patients must choose the most appropriate category for their question among lots of categories to be redirected to the most relevant phys...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
Epidemiological studies are necessary to take public health decisions. Their relevance depends on the quality of data. Doctors in continuous care collect a big amount of data that can be used for epidemiological purpose, but spatial data may be dirty...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
We propose a modular approach to develop an ontology of psychiatry, ONTOPSYCHIA, based on Patient Discharges Summaries (PDS) and divided into three modules (i.e. social, mental disorders and treatments). We decided to take into account the social asp...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
Clinical data recorded in modern EHRs are very rich, although their secondary use research and medical decision may be complicated (eg, missing and incorrect data, data spread over several clinical databases, information available only within unstruc...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
The ability to learn specialized languages, such as biomedical language, requires not only specialized knowledge specific to this area, but also linguistic skills. We propose to study this hypothesis on the example of biomedical language as it is lea...