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ACL
2011
12 years 7 months ago
Improving Classification of Medical Assertions in Clinical Notes
We present an NLP system that classifies the assertion type of medical problems in clinical notes used for the Fourth i2b2/VA Challenge. Our classifier uses a variety of linguisti...
Youngjun Kim, Ellen Riloff, Stèphane M. Mey...
CBMS
2006
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
A Generic Framework: From Clinical Notes to Electronic Medical Records
Electronic Medical Records are important to manage health data and save lives to improve the quality of service in hospitals. Clinical medical records contain a wealth of informat...
Hyoil Han, Yoori Choi, Yoo Myung Choi, Xiaohua Zho...
ACL
2008
13 years 5 months ago
A Hierarchical Approach to Encoding Medical Concepts for Clinical Notes
This paper proposes a hierarchical text categorization (TC) approach to encoding free-text clinical notes with ICD-9-CM codes. Preliminary experimental result on the 2007 Computat...
Yitao Zhang
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Transforming clinic environments into information workspaces for patients
Although clinic environments are a primary location for exchanging information with clinicians, patients experience these spaces as harsh environments to access, use, exchange, an...
Kenton T. Unruh, Meredith M. Skeels, Andrea Civan-...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Characterizing patient-friendly "micro-explanations"of medical events
Patients’ basic understanding of clinical events has been shown to dramatically improve patient care. We propose that the automatic generation of very short microexplanations, s...
Lauren Wilcox, Dan Morris, Desney S. Tan, Justin G...