Application of natural language processing to identify social needs from patient medical notes: development and assessment of a scalable, performant, and rule-based model in an integrated healthcare delivery system.
To develop and test a scalable, performant, and rule-based model for identifying 3 major domains of social needs (residential instability, food insecurity, and transportation issues) from the unstructured data in electronic health records (EHRs).
Author(s): Gray, Geoffrey M, Zirikly, Ayah, Ahumada, Luis M, Rouhizadeh, Masoud, Richards, Thomas, Kitchen, Christopher, Foroughmand, Iman, Hatef, Elham
DOI: 10.1093/jamiaopen/ooad085