With the widespread use of healthcare information systems commonly known as electronic
health records, there is significant scope for improving the way healthcare is delivered by …

The management of drug–drug interactions (DDIs) is a critical issue resulting from the
overwhelming amount of information available on them. Natural Language Processing …

The primary goal of drug safety researchers and regulators is to promptly identify adverse
drug reactions. Doing so may in turn prevent or reduce the harm to patients and ultimately …

The early detection of drug–drug interactions (DDIs) is limited by the diffuse spread of DDI
information in heterogeneous sources. Computational methods promise to play a key role in …

Pharmacovigilance (PV) databases record the benefits and risks of different drugs, as a
means to ensure their safe and effective use. Creating and maintaining such resources can …

For the healthcare sector, it is critical to exploit the vast amount of textual health-related
information. Nevertheless, healthcare providers have difficulties to benefit from such quantity …

The package insert (aka drug product label) is the only publicly-available source of
information on drug-drug interactions (DDIs) for some drugs, especially newer ones. Thus …

Background Online health communities (OHC s) experience difficulties in utilising patient
reported posts to fulfil the information needs of online patients concerning health related …

Patient-reported posts in Online Health Communities (OHCs) contain various valuable
information that can help establish knowledge-based online support for online patients …

Conceptual modeling elicits and describes general knowledge in a particular domain and is
a fundamental step in the development of knowledge-based systems. However, different …