BACKGROUND: With the increasing focus on reducing hospital readmissions in the United States, numerous readmissions risk prediction models have been proposed, mostly developed through analyses of structured data fields in electronic medical records a...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Several kinds of event log data produced in daily clinical activities have yet to be used for secure and efficient improvement of hospital activities. Data Warehouse systems in Hospital Information Systems used for the analysis of structured data suc...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
We propose a cognitive system for patient-centric care that leverages and combines natural language processing, semantics, and learning from users over time to support care professionals working with large volumes of patient notes. The proposed metho...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
To visualize and compare three text analysis algorithms of sentiment (AFINN, Bing, Syuzhet), applied to 1549 ecologically assessed self-report stress notes obtained by smartphone, in order to gain insights about stress measurement and management.
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Smoking is a significant risk factor for initiation and progression of oral diseases. A patient's current smoking status and tobacco dependency can aid clinical decision making and treatment planning. The free-text nature of this data limits accessib...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
NLP-PIER (Natural Language Processing - Patient Information Extraction for Research) is a self-service platform with a search engine for clinical researchers to perform natural language processing (NLP) queries using clinical notes. We conducted user...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
We developed an easy-to-use tool for non-technical biomedical researchers to conduct Named-Entity Recognition (NER) on biomedical text, in a familiar spreadsheet environment. The system is a simple, offline, easy to install, end-user front-end to the...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Eligibility criteria are important for clinical research protocols or clinical practice guidelines for determining who qualify for studies and to whom clinical evidence is applicable, but the free-text format is not amenable for computational process...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
This study sought to use ontology-based knowledge to identify patients with rare diseases and to estimate the frequency of those diseases in a large database of radiology reports. Natural language processing methods were applied to 12,377,743 narrari...
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