Identifying family structures from obituaries and matching them to patients in an electronic heath record.
Family data are a valuable data source in bioinformatic research. This is because family members often share common genetic and environmental exposures. Collecting this family data is traditionally very labor intensive but advances in electronic health record (EHR) data mining has proven useful when identifying pedigrees linked to longitudinal health histories. These are called e-pedigrees. Unfortunately, e-pedigrees tend to miss the oldest patients who inherently have the longest and richest [...]
Author(s): Mayer, John, Delgoffe, Brooke, Hebbring, Scott
DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocaf102