Ves Dimov at the Clinical Cases and Images blog is working on the best way to keep abreast of news in the medical literature. Dr. Dimov’s “5 tips” for staying up to date is a great first stop. The first point is to follow the RSS feeds of the major journals using a feed reader [...]
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How do you keep up with the medical literature?
December 15th, 2008 No Comments
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AMIA 2008: Using MedLEE to Classify Smoking Status
November 16th, 2008 No Comments
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 JAMIA. My project [...]
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 consultants [...]
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 collects [...]
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 for the app. [...]
Social Networking for AMIA 2008?
October 22nd, 2008 No Comments
I am attending AMIA 2008 this year on Sunday November 9, presenting a paper on using a medical language processor to judge a patient’s smoking status. I am also in the student finalist competition Sunday morning, so onlookers have not one but two opportunities to hear me talk. A recent Clinical Cases post noted that [...]
Walking Intensive Care Patients Early
October 15th, 2008 No Comments
I thought this was a great picture in JAMA recently. It shows a patient on mechanical ventilation via ET tube and with an arterial line walking in the ICU. Admittedly the patient has a lot of help; there is at least one nurse and one respiratory technician. However, this was not even considered possible in [...]
Tags: endotracheal · hopkins · icu · jama
How to Install WP-SuperCache on Pair
October 12th, 2008 No Comments
Recently Matt Cutts discussed difficulties he had with WP-SuperCache on his Pair Networks hosting account. I use PairLite, which is hosting from the same company with less support and no SLA. I love Pair because they provide shell access to FreeBSD and an Apache webserver. The problem Matt runs into is that WP-SuperCache, like many [...]
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