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The text descriptions in electronic medical records are a rich source of information. We have developed a Health Information Text Extraction (HITEx) tool and used it to extract key findings for a research stud...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2006 6:30
Published on: 26 July 2006
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The identification of patients who pose an epidemic hazard when they are admitted to a health facility plays a role in preventing the risk of hospital acquired infection. An automated clinical decision support sy...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2011 11:50
Published on: 28 July 2011
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The Institute of Medicine has identified patient safety as a key goal for health care in the United States. Detecting vaccine adverse events is an important public health activity that contributes to patient safe...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2007 7:3
Published on: 12 February 2007
Research article
Herein, we describe a system that securely gathers microbiology data from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) network of databases. Using natural language processing methods, we applied an information extract...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:34
Published on: 25 April 2012
Research article
For this project, 80 medical problems were selected for their frequency of use in our future clinical field of evaluation (cardiovascular). We have developed an Automated Problem List system composed of two main ...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2005 5:30
Published on: 31 August 2005
Research article
Diagnostic accuracy might be improved by algorithms that searched patients’ clinical notes in the electronic health record (EHR) for signs and symptoms of diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS). The focus th...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2017 17:24
Published on: 28 February 2017
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Radiology reports are a rich resource for biomedical research. Prior to utilization, trained experts must manually review reports to identify discrete outcomes. The Audiological and Genetic Database (AudGenDB)...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2016 16:65
Published on: 6 June 2016
Debate
We outline the fundamental differences between Medical Informatics and theoretical sciences and propose that Medical Informatics research should advance individual knowledge processing (case-based reasoning) and ...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2004 4:19
Published on: 8 November 2004
Software
Plain language search tools for MEDLINE/PubMed are few. We wanted to develop a search tool that would allow anyone using a free-text, natural language query and without knowing specialized vocabularies that an...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2005 5:5
Published on: 10 March 2005
Proceedings
A translation algorithm that has its basis in Natural Language Processing methods has been designed and partially implemented....
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2015 15(Suppl 2):S5
Published on: 15 June 2015
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 2
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Online psychiatric texts are natural language texts expressing depressive problems, published by Internet users via community-based web services such as web forums, message boards and blogs. Understanding the ...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:72
Published on: 18 July 2012
Research article
Computerized ICUs rely on software services to convey the medical condition of their patients as well as assisting the staff in taking treatment decisions. Such services are useful for following clinical guide...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2010 10:3
Published on: 18 January 2010
Research article
Visualization of Concepts in Medicine (VCM) is a compositional iconic language that aims to ease information retrieval in Electronic Health Records (EHR), clinical guidelines or other medical documents. Using ...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:17
Published on: 11 March 2014
Research article
PROforma is one of several languages that allow clinical guidelines to be expressed in a computer-interpretable manner. How these languages should be compared, and what requirements they should meet, are quest...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2006 6:20
Published on: 5 April 2006
Research article
Death records are a rich source of data, which can be used to assist with public surveillance and/or decision support. However, to use this type of data for such purposes it has to be transformed into a coded ...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:37
Published on: 8 May 2012
Research article
Adverse Drug Reactions are one of the leading causes of injury or death among patients undergoing medical treatments. Not all Adverse Drug Reactions are identified before a drug is made available in the market...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:91
Published on: 23 October 2014
Debate
In France, recent developments in healthcare system organization have aimed at strengthening decision-making and action in public health at the regional level. Firstly, the 2004 Public Health Act, by setting 1...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:28
Published on: 3 April 2012
Research article
Electronic health records are invaluable for medical research, but much information is stored as free text rather than in a coded form. For example, in the UK General Practice Research Database (GPRD), causes ...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12:88
Published on: 7 August 2012
Technical advance
Providing scalable clinical decision support (CDS) across institutions that use different electronic health record (EHR) systems has been a challenge for medical informatics researchers. The lack of commonly s...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2014 14:39
Published on: 10 May 2014
Research
Capturing accurate and machine-interpretable primary data from clinical encounters is a challenging task, yet critical to the integrity of the practice of medicine. We explore the intriguing possibility that t...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9(Suppl 1):S3
Published on: 3 November 2009
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 9 Supplement 1
Research article
Many medication errors are encountered in drug prescriptions, which would not occur if practitioners could remember the drug properties. They can refer to drug monographs to find these properties, however drug...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:16
Published on: 24 April 2008
Research article
Decision aids (DA) to assist patients in evaluating treatment options and sharing in decision making have proliferated in recent years. Most require high literacy and do not use plain language principles. We d...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2005 5:16
Published on: 20 June 2005
Research article
Medical care commonly involves the apprehension of complex patterns of patient derangements to which the practitioner responds with patterns of interventions, as opposed to single therapeutic maneuvers. This c...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13:102
Published on: 4 September 2013
Research article
Identification of negation in electronic health records is essential if we are to understand the computable meaning of the records: Our objective is to compare the accuracy of an automated mechanism for assign...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2005 5:13
Published on: 5 May 2005
Proceedings
Semantic technologies, including natural language processing, ontologies, semantic Web services and Web-...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2012 12(Suppl 1):S5
Published on: 30 April 2012
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 1
