The i2b2 NLP Shared Task in 2006 had two parts. The first was to deidentify discharge summaries. A separate task was to identify a patient’s smoking status based on a discharge summary. There were a number of successful methods used for this task which are described in the January 2008 issue of [...]
Entries from November 16th, 2008
AMIA 2008: Using MedLEE to Classify Smoking Status
November 16th, 2008 No Comments
Tags: amia · boostexter · medlee · nlp · smoking
Google’s Voice Search
November 15th, 2008 No Comments
Google has migrated their old Voice Search application to the iPhone as part of their Google Mobile App software. Alex Chitu has a nice screenshot of the original interface from 2002. Google continues to run GOOG-411.
The core voice recognition algorithms used in the industry are mostly the same ideas optimized over the last 20 [...]
Consultant Recommended Orders, Coming to a Hospital Near You?
November 15th, 2008 No Comments
Martin Were, the top winner of the AMIA 2008 Student Paper Competition, tackled the problem of improving the implementation of consultant recommendations. As an intern this topic is near and dear to me.
When a consult is called, particularly in a large academic hospital, the consultant will generally leave a note with recommendations. While [...]
Tags: amia · consultants · cpoe · cro · regenstrief · were
MedLEE commercialized
November 14th, 2008 No Comments
I saw on HISTalk this week that Columbia University’s MedLEE system is being commercialized by a new startup with the somewhat dry name of NLP International Corporation. It appears that Columbia’s Science & Technology Ventures office has helped create this startup and granted it an exclusive MedLEE license.
MedLEE has been around for awhile, so [...]
NLP Making Indiana MRSA Reporting Very Accurate
November 14th, 2008 No Comments
A paper I really liked in the Student Finalist competition at AMIA 2008 was Jeff Friedlin’s project to use NLP processing to automate the identification of MRSA lab reports for state-level reporting. The Regenstrief Institute runs an electronic lab reporting system at the Indiana Network For Patient Care, which is a regional center that [...]
Tags: amia · friedlin · mrsa · regenstreif
Facebook App Shares Your Medline Publications
November 12th, 2008 No Comments
I was one of the Student Finalists at AMIA 2008 this year, and I was very impressed by some of the other finalist presentations. One of my favorites was by Steven Bedrick at OHSU. He wrote a Facebook application called Medline Publications. The idea is that each user lists their Medline publications [...]
