Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 21, 2019
We applied an open source natural language processing (NLP) system "NimbleMiner" to identify clinical notes with mentions of alcohol and substance abuse. NimbleMiner allows users to rapidly discover clinical vocabularies (using word embedding model) ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 21, 2019
Due to various etiologies and pathogenesis of kidney diseases, an invasive procedure called renal biopsy may be needed to determine the specific type of kidney disease, its severity, and the best treatment for it. This study aims to detmine if a text...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 21, 2019
Falls are the leading cause of injuries among older adults, particularly in the more vulnerable home health care (HHC) population. Existing standardized fall risk assessments often require supplemental data collection and tend to have low specificity...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 21, 2019
Patient falls, a subcategory of patient safety events, cause further harm and anxiety to patients in healthcare systems. Patient fall reports are a valuable resource to identify safety issues that demand further attention. Still, the main challenge f...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 21, 2019
We aimed to develop a deep learning model for the prediction of the risk of advanced colorectal cancer in Taiwanese adults. We collected data of 58152 patients from the Taiwan National Health Insurance database from 1999 to 2013. All patients' comorb...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 21, 2019
Cardiovascular disease is prevalent and associated with significant mortality rate. Robust lifetime risk stratification for cardiovascular disease is important for effective prevention, early diagnoses, targeted intervention, and improved prognosis. ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 21, 2019
An attractive feature of non-lattice-based ontology auditing methods is its ability to not only identify potential quality issues, but also automatically generate the corresponding fixes. However, exhaustive manual evaluation of the validity of sugge...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 21, 2019
Clinical text de-identification enables collaborative research while protecting patient privacy and confidentiality; however, concerns persist about the reduction in the utility of the de-identified text for information extraction and machine learnin...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 21, 2019
Frequent utilization of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is associated with higher costs and decreased availability for patients who urgently need it. Common risk assessment tool, like the ASA score, lack objectivity and do account only for some influen...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 21, 2019
Laboratory data collected in the electronic health record as part of routine care can be used in secondary research. For example, the US Department of Veterans Affairs maintains a data warehouse covering over 20 million individuals and 6.6 billion la...