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  • 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
    … IE tools, corpus evaluation tools and encoded clinical documents. There are two components to a successful … Processing interoperability within the biomedical domain. Document … community, yet be expressive enough to encode a clinical document, a named entity, relationships between entities, …
  • Text-Processing of VA Clinical Notes to Improve Case Detection Models for Influenza-like Illness

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    Objective There were two objectives of this analysis. First, apply text-processing methods to free-text clinician notes extracted from the VA electronic medical record for automated detection of Influenza-Like-Illness. Secondly,… read more
    … determine if use of data from free-text clinical documents can be used to enhance the predictive ability of case detection models based on coded data. Document … determine if use of data from free-text clinical documents can be used to enhance the predictive ability of …
  • Automating Antimicrobial Usage Reporting

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    Antimicrobial stewardship is crucial to the ongoing viability of existing therapies. To facilitate this stewardship, NHSN allows hospitals to submit data on their antimicrobial usage and receive feedback on how their usage compares to other… read more
    … the technical requirements of generating appropriate CDA documents for submission. An automated solution that … data from existing HL7 interfaces and generated CDA documents in the correct format could significantly lower … the technical requirements of generating appropriate CDA documents for submission. An automated solution that …
  • Extending an Uncertainty Taxonomy for Suspected Pneumonia Case Review

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    Natural language processing algorithms that accurately screen clinical documents for suspected pneumonia must extract and reason about whether these mentions provide evidence that supports, refutes, or represents uncertainty. Our efforts extend… read more
    … processing algorithms that accurately screen clinical documents for suspected pneumonia must extract and reason … processing algorithms that accurately screen clinical documents for suspected pneumonia must extract and reason …
  • A web-based platform to support text mining of clinical reports for public health surveillance

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    PyConTextKit is a web-based platform that extracts entities from clinical text and provides relevant metadata - for example, whether the entity is negated or hypothetical - using simple lexical clues occurring in the window of text surrounding the… read more
    … of clinical reports for public health surveillance. Document … of documents to be annotated,management of a lexicon, document annotation using the lexicon,view of annotation results, document classification based on the annotations and summary …
  • NEDSS Base System (NBS): Electronic Data Exchange and Workflow Decision Support

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    The NBS is an integrated disease surveillance system deployed in 22 public health jurisdictions to support receipt, investigation, analysis and reporting, and data exchange for state reportable conditions. The NBS is governed by the Centers for… read more
    … health workflow management of incoming messages and documents.  Submitted by Magou on Mon, 07/17/2017 - 01:00 … … health workflow management of incoming messages and documents.  … NEDSS Base System (NBS): Electronic Data …
  • Identifying Contextual Features to Improve the Performance of an Influenza-Like Illness Text Classifier

    Content Type: Abstract

    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
    … described in templated text that is difficult to process. Document … on symptoms, problems, or findings from electronic note documents. False positive extractions may be due to concepts … of these strings. Two reviewers annotated the same document set with a third reviewer completing a blinded …
  • Translating Heat-related Illness Surveillance Into Action Through Partnerships

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    As part of a greater statewide excessive heat response plan, New Hampshire (NH) has been performing HRI surveillance since 2010 to guide response efforts and ultimately reduce HRI morbidity and mortality during situations of excessive heat.… read more
    … months. NHÕs Excessive Heat Emergency Response Plan documents appropriate state-wide readiness, alerting, … months. NHÕs Excessive Heat Emergency Response Plan documents appropriate state-wide readiness, alerting, …