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The primary goal of the NLP working group is to promote the use of textual information from Electronic Health Records (EHRs) for observational studies under the OHDSI umbrella. To facilitate this objective, the group will develop methods and software that can be implemented to utilize clinical text for studies by the OHDSI community.
Hua Xu OHDSI Collaborator Bio
Vipina K Keloth
When: Second Wednesday of every month at 1 PM - 2 PM CT
Where: Click here to join the meeting
Monthly Research Webinar: Upcoming - September 8, 2021 (as part of the WG meeting)
Title: Natural Language Processing for Clinical Excellence: The State of Practices, Opportunities, and Challenges
Abstract: Rapid growth in adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) has led to an unprecedented expansion in the availability of large longitudinal datasets. Large initiatives such as the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Network, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Network (PCORNet), and the Observational Health Data Science and Informatics (OHDSI) consortium, have been established and have reported successful applications of secondary use of EHRs in clinical research and practice. In these applications, natural language processing (NLP) technologies have played a crucial role as much of detailed patient information in EHRs is embedded in narrative clinical documents. Meanwhile, a number of clinical NLP systems, such as MedLEE, MetaMap/MetaMap Lite, cTAKES, MedTagger, and i2b2 have been developed and utilized to extract useful information from diverse types of clinical text, such as clinical notes, radiology reports, and pathology reports. This talk will walk through some successful applications of NLP techniques in the clinical domain with potential opportunities and challenges.
Presenter: Dr. Yanshan Wang
Yanshan Wang, PhD, FAMIA is vice chair of Research and assistant professor within the Department of Health Information Management at the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests focus on artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing (NLP) and machine/deep learning methodologies and applications in health care. His research goal is to leverage different dimensions of data and data-driven computational approaches to meet the needs of clinicians, researchers, patients and customers. Prior to joining Pitt, Dr. Wang was assistant professor in the Department of AI & Informatics at Mayo Clinic. Yanshan has extensive collaborative research experience with physicians, epidemiology researchers, statisticians, NLP researchers, and IT technicians. He has served as investigators for multiple extramural NIH-funded projects and intramural operational projects. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles in high-impact medical informatics journals (e.g., JBI, JAMIA), and conferences (e.g., AMIA Annual Symposium, AMIA summit, IEEE BIBM). Dr. Wang is also active in organizing conference workshops and shared tasks in the medical informatics community, including the international Health NLP workshops and the national NLP clinical challenge (n2c2).
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Hua Xu | Abraham Hartzema | Feifan Liu |
Anupama Gururaj | David Sontag | Paris Nicolas |
Nigam Shah | Arnab Bose | Mark Dredze |
Noemie Elhadad | Lian Hu | Masoud Rouhizadeh |
Jon Duke | Jan A Kors | Malcolm McRoberts |
Alexandre Yahi | J van Der Lei | Nishanth Parameshwar Pavinkurve |
Thomas Ginter | Peter R Rijnbeek | Carol Friedman |
Olga Patterson | Vivienne Zhu | Miao Chen |
George Hripsack | Bob Patterson | Jianlin Shi |
Vojtech Huser | Michael Gurley | Vassilis Koutkias |
Mark Khayter | Xiaoling Chen | Dan Schlegel |
Karthik Natarajan | Hongfang Liu | Mark V Mai |
Min Jiang | Hong Yu | Todd Lingren |
Scott DuVall | Stephane Meystre | Jose Posada |
Xiao Dong | Timothy Miller | Andrew E Williams |
Ning Shang | Wendy Chapman | Vignesh Srinivasan |
Jessie Tenenbaum | Elizabeth Marshall | Yuan Luo |
Kathleen Nogueira | Noa Palmon | Kelly Peterson |
Chris Ryan | Danielle Bitterman | Jimyung Park |
Kate Weber | Alexander Sivura | Patrick Alba |
Tarun | Xi Yang | Meliha Yetisgen |
T.M. Seinen | Jiang Bian | Xiyu Ding |
Georgina Kennedy | Yaoyun Zhang | Rui Zhang |
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