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ArticleStudies in health technology and informatics2019

Rich Text Formatted EHR Narratives: A Hidden and Ignored Trove.

Zexian Zeng, Yuan Zhao, Mengxin Sun, Andy H Vo, Justin Starren, Yuan Luo

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Article in Studies in health technology and informatics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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6 authors.

Zexian ZengDepartment of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
Yuan ZhaoDepartment of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
Mengxin SunHospital Medicine, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, USA.
Andy H VoCommittee on Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Justin StarrenDepartment of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
Yuan LuoDepartment of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.

Funding

National Infrastructure for Standardized and Portable EHR Phenotyping AlgorithmsR01GM105688 · NIGMS · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI LUO, YUAN, PATHAK, JYOTISHMAN · 2013 to 2020
$5.7M
Bayesian Generative Methods for Extracting and Modeling Relations in EHR NarrativesR21LM012618 · NLM · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI LUO, YUAN · 2017 to 2018
$390k
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM105688NLM NIH HHS R21 LM012618
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study presents an approach for mining structured information from clinical narratives in Electronic Health Records (EHRs) by using Rich Text Formatted (RTF) records. RTF is adopted by many medical information management systems. There is rich structural information in these files which can be extracted and interpreted, yet such information is largely ignored. We investigate multiple types of EHR narratives in the Enterprise Data Warehouse from a multisite large healthcare chain consisting of both, an academic medical center and community hospitals. We focus on the RTF constructs related to tables and sections that are not available in plain text EHR narratives. We show how to parse these RTF constructs, analyze their prevalence and characteristics in the context of multiple types of EHR narratives. Our case study demonstrates the additional utility of the features derived from RTF constructs over plain text oriented NLP.

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Electronic Health RecordsNarrationAcademic Medical CentersData WarehousingHistological TechniquesElectronic Health RecordsInformation ManagementNatural Language Processing

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PMID31437968
PMCPMC8060951

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