OBJECTIVE: Intra-axiom redundancies are elements of concept definitions that are redundant as they are entailed by other elements of the concept definition. While such redundancies are harmless from a logical point of view, they make concept definiti...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Aug 21, 2014
OBJECTIVE: The ShARe/CLEF eHealth 2013 Evaluation Lab Task 1 was organized to evaluate the state of the art on the clinical text in (i) disorder mention identification/recognition based on Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) definition (Task 1a) a...
INTRODUCTION: This article is part of the Focus Theme of METHODS of Information in Medicine on "Managing Interoperability and Complexity in Health Systems".
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 7, 2025
This study explores the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) in extracting and structuring allergic reaction data from non-English clinical free texts. Leveraging open-source models such as Llama 3.1, Qwen 2.5, and Mistral NeMo, the study utilizes 500...
OBJECTIVE: A large proportion of electronic health record (EHR) data consists of unstructured medical language text. The formatting of this text is often flexible and inconsistent, making it challenging to use for predictive modeling, clinical decisi...
This study aims to describe implementing a SNOMED CT-coded health problem (HP) list at Hospital ClĂnic de Barcelona. The project focuses on enhancing the accuracy and efficiency of clinical coding by automating the process from patient admission, whi...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
Medical Entity Linking (MEL) refers to the task of automatically detecting and codifying medical concepts, which is an important preprocessing step for exploiting unstructured medical reports. SapBERT is an efficient MEL method for the English langua...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
Accurately documenting smoking status is essential for clinical decision-making and patient care. However, smoking status information is often only available in clinical narratives. Mapping smoking-related terms to standardized terminologies such as ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
Standardizing medical terminology is critical for healthcare informatics, particularly for improving data interoperability and patient management systems. This study evaluated four distinct GPT-4-based approaches for mapping local medical terminologi...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
The aim of this study is to convert nursing statements into the OMOP CDM for use in observational studies. We mapped nursing statements to SNOMED CT concepts and converted them into the OMOP CDM format through an ETL process. As a result, approximate...
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