Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
Different groups of audiences in health care: health professionals and health consumers, each have different information needs. Health monographs targeting different audiences are created by leveraging readers' background knowledge. The NCI's Physici...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
A relational database model is presented that stores the hierarchical linkages between clinical events with qualifier codes, such that the explicit contextual meaning of an event's attributes is preserved upon retrieval. A retrospective analysis of 3...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
Depression in adolescence is associated with significant suicidality. Therefore, it is important to detect the risk for depression and provide timely care to adolescents. This study aims to develop an ontology for collecting and analyzing social medi...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
Literature-based discovery (LBD) generates discoveries, or hypotheses, by combining what is already known in the literature. Potential discoveries have the form of relations between biomedical concepts; for example, a drug may be determined to treat ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
Studies show a gap between the expressions commonly used by health consumers and health professionals. To bridge this gap, consumer health vocabularies are presented as a solution. The aim of this paper is to describe an on-going project to create a ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
The objective of the SYNODOS collaborative project was to develop a generic IT solution, combining a medical terminology server, a semantic analyser and a knowledge base. The goal of the project was to generate meaningful epidemiological data for var...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
Assessment of vital signs is an essential part of surveillance of critically ill patients to detect condition changes and clinical deterioration. While most modern electronic medical records allow for vitals to be recorded in a structured format, the...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
In clinical NLP, one major barrier to adopting crowdsourcing for NLP annotation is the issue of confidentiality for protected health information (PHI) in clinical narratives. In this paper, we investigated the use of a frequency-based approach to ext...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
Dependence relations among disease and risk factors are a key ingredient in risk modeling and decision support models. Currently such information is either provided by experts (costly and time consuming) or extracted from data (if available). The pub...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
Natural language processing (NLP) has been designed to convert narrative text into structured data. Although some general NLP architectures have been developed, a task-specific NLP framework to facilitate the effective use of data is still a challeng...
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