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ArticleJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA2021

Natural language processing enabling COVID-19 predictive analytics to support data-driven patient advising and pooled testing.

Stéphane M Meystre, Paul M Heider, Youngjun Kim, Matthew Davis, Jihad Obeid, James Madory, Alexander V Alekseyenko

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Article in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Stéphane M MeystreBiomedical Informatics Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7632-9625
Paul M HeiderBiomedical Informatics Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1589-4567
Youngjun KimBiomedical Informatics Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
Matthew DavisInformation Solutions, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
Jihad ObeidBiomedical Informatics Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7193-7779
James MadoryDepartment of Pathology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
Alexander V AlekseyenkoBiomedical Informatics Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5748-2085

Funding

Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute ME-2018C3-14549Translational Biomedical Informatics Chair Endowment
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveThe COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic response at the Medical University of South Carolina included virtual care visits for patients with suspected severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. The telehealth system used for these visits only exports a text note to integrate with the electronic health record, but structured and coded information about COVID-19 (eg, exposure, risk factors, symptoms) was needed to support clinical care and early research as well as predictive analytics for data-driven patient advising and pooled testing. MATERIALS AND

methodsTo capture COVID-19 information from multiple sources, a new data mart and a new natural language processing (NLP) application prototype were developed. The NLP application combined reused components with dictionaries and rules crafted by domain experts. It was deployed as a Web service for hourly processing of new data from patients assessed or treated for COVID-19. The extracted information was then used to develop algorithms predicting SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic test results based on symptoms and exposure information.

resultsThe dedicated data mart and NLP application were developed and deployed in a mere 10-day sprint in March 2020. The NLP application was evaluated with good accuracy (85.8% recall and 81.5% precision). The SARS-CoV-2 testing predictive analytics algorithms were configured to provide patients with data-driven COVID-19 testing advices with a sensitivity of 81% to 92% and to enable pooled testing with a negative predictive value of 90% to 91%, reducing the required tests to about 63%.

conclusionsSARS-CoV-2 testing predictive analytics and NLP successfully enabled data-driven patient advising and pooled testing.

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COVID-19COVID-19 TestingHumansNatural Language ProcessingPandemicsSARS-CoV-2data science [L01.305]machine learning [g17.035.250.500]medical informatics [L01.313.500]natural language processing (nlp) [L01.224.050.375.580]

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PMID34415311
PMCPMC8714262

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