Electronic Patient Records: Some Answers to the Data Representation and Reuse Challenges

S. Meystre; Managing Editor for the IMIA Yearbook Section on Patient Records

doi:10.1055/s-0038-1638525

Yearbook of Medical Informatics, Table of Contents

Yearb Med Inform 2007; 16(01): 47-48
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1638525

Synopsis

Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart

Electronic Patient Records: Some Answers to the Data Representation and Reuse Challenges

Findings from the Section on Patient Records

S. Meystre

University of Utah, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

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Managing Editor for the IMIA Yearbook Section on Patient Records

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Abstract

Summary

Objectives

To summarize current excellent research in the field of patient records.

Method

Synopsis of the papers selected for the IMIA Yearbook 2007.

Results

The Electronic Patient Record encompasses a broad field of research and development. Some current research topics were selected for this IMIA Yearbook: EHR representation and communication standards, and secondary uses of clinical data for research and decision support. Four excellent papers representing the research in those fields were selected for the Patient Records section.

Conclusion

The best papers selected for this section focus on the analysis and comparison of two important clinical documents representation standards, on direct structured data entry, on the use of Natural Language Processing to detect adverse events, and on the development and evaluation of a clinical text corpus annotated for part-of-speech information.

Keywords

Medical informatics - International Medical Informatics Association - yearbook - medical records - computerized medical record systems - natural language processing

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