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Development of a general natural-language processor that identifies clinical information in narrative reports and maps that information into a structured representation containing clinical terms.

The introduction by the Health Care Financing Administration, in 1993, of separate conversion factors for "medical" and "surgical" services to be used in calculating Medicare charges would ordinarily necessitate the use of year-specific software source code. By designing the system to utilize macro-substitution of the year in the names of Current Procedural Terminology for Physicians Code databases, database fields, and system variables, it is possible to calculate Medicare charges without [...]

Develop a knowledge-based representation for a controlled terminology of clinical information to facilitate creation, maintenance, and use of the terminology.

Assess the performance of the SAPHIRE automated information retrieval system.

To test the effect of diagnosis on training an artificial neural network (ANN) to predict length of stay (LOS) for psychiatric patients involuntarily admitted to a state hospital.

The American Nurses Association (ANA) Cabinet on Nursing Practice mandated the formation of the Steering Committee on Databases to Support Clinical Nursing Practice. The Committee has established the process and the criteria by which to review and recommend nursing classification schemes based on the ANA Nursing Process Standards and elements contained in the Nursing Minimum Data Set (NMDS) for inclusion of nursing data elements in national databases. Four classification schemes [...]

To examine the information needs of health care professionals in HIV-related clinical encounters, and to determine the suitability of existing information sources to address those needs.