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Unstructured Free-text Data and Meaningful Use
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In 2010, as rules for the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Electronic Heatlh Record (EHR) Incentive Programs (Meaningful Use)(1), were finalized, ISDS became aware of a trend towards new EHR systems capturing or sending emergency department (ED)… read more… or sending emergency department (ED) chief complaint (CC) data as structured variables without including the … surveillance and survey data on the value of free-text CC to public health practice. On 1/31/11, ISDS, in … was conducted to better support a requirement for ED CC as free-text, by investigating the relationship between … -
A Comparison of Chief Complaints and Emergency Department Reports for Identifying Patients with Acute Lower Respiratory Syndrome
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Automated syndromic surveillance systems often classify patients into syndromic categories based on free-text chief complaints. Chief complaints (CC) demonstrate low to moderate sensitivity in identifying syndromic cases. Emergency Department (ED)… read more… based on free-text chief complaints. Chief complaints (CC) demonstrate low to moderate sensitivity in identifying … based on free-text chief complaints. Chief complaints (CC) demonstrate low to moderate sensitivity in identify- ing … (lower three diamonds). ED Classifi- cation dominated CC Classification by a physician (), CoCo ( ), and MPLUS ( … -
Can Chief Complaints Identify Patients with Febrile Syndromes?
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Syndromic surveillance systems often classify patients into syndromic categories based on emergency department (ED) chief complaints. There exists no standard set of syndromes for syndromic surveillance, and the available syndromic case… read more… of an outbreak (23). Near the end of a patient’s visit to a healthcare facility, detailed information about … approxi- mately 40,000 adult patients a year, and patient visit data have been stored in the Medical Archival System … P, DeMaria A Jr, Platt R. Use of automated ambulatory-care encounter records for detection of acute illness … -
Using NLP on VA Electronic Medical Records to Facilitate Epidemiologic Case Investigations
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A major goal of biosurveillance is the timely detection of an infectious disease outbreak. Once a disease has been identified, another very important goal is to find all known cases of the disease to assist public health… read more… MSc5,Matthew H. Samore, MD1,2,6 1VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, 2 Internal Medicine, University of Utah School … Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 4VA Maryland Health Care System and University of Maryland School of Medicine, … -
Identifying Contextual Features to Improve the Performance of an Influenza-Like Illness Text Classifier
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To understand the types of false positive cases identified by an Influenza-like illness (ILI) text classifier by measuring the prevalence of ILI-related concepts that are negated, hypothetical, include explicit mention of temporality, experienced by… read more… Wendy W. Chapman, PhD3 1VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, 2Department of Internal Medicine, University of … Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 4VA Maryland Health Care System and University of Maryland School of Medicine, … -
Standardization to aid interoperability between NLP system
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There are a number of Natural Language Processing (NLP) annotation and Information Extraction (IE) systems and platforms that have been successfully used within the medical domain. Although these groups share components of their systems, there… read more… Fiszman11, and O Bodenreider11 1VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, Salt Lake City, UT, USA; 2University of Utah, …