The term electronic patient record (EPR) means the electronic collection of clinical narrative
and diagnostic reports specific to an individual patient. A true EPR should allow physicians …

Supplying a comprehensive overview of healthcare analytics research, Healthcare Data
Analytics provides an understanding of the analytical techniques currently available to solve …

In this study, we evaluate the performance of a Natural Language Processing (NLP)
application designed to extract medical problems from narrative text clinical documents. The …

Objective Problem list data is a driving force for many beneficial clinical tools, yet these data
remain underutilized. We performed a systematic literature review, pulling insights from …

Background The medical problem list is an important part of the electronic medical record in
development in our institution. To serve the functions it is designed for, the problem list has …

OBJECTIVE: The problem list is a key and required element of the electronic medical record
(EMR). Problem lists may contribute substantially to patient safety and quality of care …

PURPOSE: To improve the completeness and timeliness of an electronic problem list, we
have developed a system using Natural Language Processing (NLP) to automatically extract …

An important function of the patient record is to effectively and concisely communicate
patient problems. In many cases, these problems are represented as short textual …

This article analyzes the data quality issues that emerge when training a shrinkage-based
classifier with noisy data. A statistical text analysis technique based on a shrinkage-based …

Although the Institute of Medicine states that a patient problem list should have a prominent
place in the computer-based patient record, the design and function of the problem list is not …