The current mode of use of Electronic Health Records (EHR) elicits text redundancy. Clinicians often populate new documents by duplicating existing notes, then updating accordingly. Data duplication can lead to propagation of errors, inconsistencies ...
AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science proceedings. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science
May 17, 2021
Extracting clinical concepts and their relations from clinical narratives is one of the fundamental tasks in clinical natural language processing. Traditional solutions often separate this task into two subtasks with a pipeline architecture, which fi...
Machine learning has been suggested as a means of identifying individuals at greatest risk for hospital readmission, including psychiatric readmission. We sought to compare the performance of predictive models that use interpretable representations d...
Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR
Jul 6, 2020
A story from long ago reminds us of the importance of quality in our practices, of taking ownership of our patients, and of our role as physicians. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has disrupted our practices. Before the pandemic, man...
Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy
Apr 27, 2020
OBJECTIVE: Rape-survivor identity is a sign of recovery and positive therapeutic progress among rape victims. This study is one of the few to focus on factors predicting self-labeling as a survivor among self-acknowledged rape victims by evaluating t...
International journal of medical informatics
Apr 23, 2020
BACKGROUND: Emergency department (ED) overcrowding has been a serious issue and demands effective clinical decision-making of patient disposition. In previous studies, emergency clinical narratives provide a rich context for clinical decisions. We ai...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Mar 4, 2020
Natural language processing (NLP) is useful for extracting information from clinical narratives, and both traditional machine learning methods and more-recent deep learning methods have been successful in various clinical NLP tasks. These methods oft...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Mar 4, 2020
While natural language processing (NLP) of unstructured clinical narratives holds the potential for patient care and clinical research, portability of NLP approaches across multiple sites remains a major challenge. This study investigated the portabi...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Dec 5, 2019
BACKGROUND: Lung cancer is the second most common cancer for men and women; the wide adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) offers a potential to accelerate cohort-related epidemiological studies using informatics approaches. Since manual extra...
The ability to realize the individuals' impressions during the verbal communication allows social robots to significantly facilitate their social interactions in such areas as child education and elderly care. However, such impressions are highly sub...
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