Natural Language Processing System
A survey of informatics platforms that enable distributed comparative effectiveness research using multi-institutional heterogenous clinical data.
Mapping partners master drug dictionary to RxNorm using an NLP-based approach.
How many medication orders are entered through free-text in EHRs?--a study on hypoglycemic agents.
Performance of primary care physicians and other providers on key process measures in the treatment of diabetes.
Discovery and Visualization of New Information from Clinical Reports in the Electronic Health Record
The project team developed automated methods for identifying relevant new information versus redundant information in electronic health record clinical notes.
Phenotype Modeling and Outcome Mapping for Pain Management Decision Support
This project explored whether the use of data from pain management practices can be used to develop more robust evidence-based approaches to chronic pain management.
Developing Evidence-Based, User-Centered Design and Implementation Guidelines to Improve Health Information Technology Usability
Analysis of 5,200 patient safety event reports showed an association between electronic health record (EHR) usability and patient safety in both adults and children and led to development of an EHR usability and safety assessment tool that healthcare facilities can use to identify usability and safety issues.
Improving Accuracy of Electronic Notes Using a Faster, Simpler Approach
This project developed, implemented, and evaluated a voice-generated enhanced electronic note system and found that it did not improve the time to finalize notes or clinician satisfaction.
NLP to Improve Accuracy and Quality of Dictated Medical Documents
This research studied errors in medical documents created with speech recognition software and developed natural language processing methods to detect such errors.