2024
Develop and validate a computable phenotype for the identification of Alzheimer's disease patients using electronic health record data
He X, Wei R, Huang Y, Chen Z, Lyu T, Bost S, Tong J, Li L, Zhou Y, Li Z, Guo J, Tang H, Wang F, DeKosky S, Xu H, Chen Y, Zhang R, Xu J, Guo Y, Wu Y, Bian J. Develop and validate a computable phenotype for the identification of Alzheimer's disease patients using electronic health record data. Alzheimer's & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring 2024, 16: e12613. PMID: 38966622, PMCID: PMC11220631, DOI: 10.1002/dad2.12613.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchElectronic health record dataElectronic health recordsComputable phenotypeHealth record dataManual chart reviewHealth recordsAlzheimer's diseaseDiagnosis codesRecord dataChart reviewUTHealthAlzheimer's disease patientsUniversity of MinnesotaAD diagnosisAD identificationDisease patientsPatientsAlzheimerAD patientsDemographicsDiagnosisDiseaseCodeDataUniversity
2020
COVID-19 TestNorm: A tool to normalize COVID-19 testing names to LOINC codes
Dong X, Li J, Soysal E, Bian J, DuVall S, Hanchrow E, Liu H, Lynch K, Matheny M, Natarajan K, Ohno-Machado L, Pakhomov S, Reeves R, Sitapati A, Abhyankar S, Cullen T, Deckard J, Jiang X, Murphy R, Xu H. COVID-19 TestNorm: A tool to normalize COVID-19 testing names to LOINC codes. Journal Of The American Medical Informatics Association 2020, 27: 1437-1442. PMID: 32569358, PMCID: PMC7337837, DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocaa145.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsElectronic health recordsLOINC codesSecondary useRule-based toolOnline web applicationOpen-source packageCritical data elementsWeb applicationData networksEnd usersData elementsIndependent test setHealth recordsTest setKey challengesData normalizationCritical resourcesTest namesRoutine clinical practice dataCodeClinical practice dataCoronavirus disease 2019COVID-19 diagnostic testsToolDevelopersA study of entity-linking methods for normalizing Chinese diagnosis and procedure terms to ICD codes
Wang Q, Ji Z, Wang J, Wu S, Lin W, Li W, Ke L, Xiao G, Jiang Q, Xu H, Zhou Y. A study of entity-linking methods for normalizing Chinese diagnosis and procedure terms to ICD codes. Journal Of Biomedical Informatics 2020, 105: 103418. PMID: 32298846, DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2020.103418.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsBM25 algorithmConcept rankingConcept generationConvolutional neural network approachNeural network approachRanking-based methodRanking methodSupport vector machineProcedure termsBetter performanceVector machineDifferent algorithmsMedical codingNetwork approachAlgorithmICD codesBERTExtended versionGood accuracyKnowledgebaseDisease termsClinical termsMatch criteriaCodeChinese diagnosis
2009
Development of a natural language processing system to identify timing and status of colonoscopy testing in electronic medical records.
Denny J, Peterson J, Choma N, Xu H, Miller R, Bastarache L, Peterson N. Development of a natural language processing system to identify timing and status of colonoscopy testing in electronic medical records. AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings 2009, 2009: 141. PMID: 20351837, PMCID: PMC2815478.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNatural language processingNatural language processing systemsElectronic medical recordsLanguage processing systemNLP systemsIdentifier systemLanguage processingMedical recordsProcessing systemElectronic textsColorectal cancer screening ratesCancer screening ratesPrimary care populationColonoscopy testingScreening ratesCare populationBilling codesQueriesColonoscopySystemStatus indicatorsAlgorithmCodeProcessingStatus