Electronic health records-driven phenotyping: challenges, recent advances, and perspectives.
Author(s): Pathak, Jyotishman, Kho, Abel N, Denny, Joshua C
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2013-002428
Author(s): Pathak, Jyotishman, Kho, Abel N, Denny, Joshua C
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2013-002428
In a growing interdisciplinary field like biomedical informatics, information dissemination and citation trends are changing rapidly due to many factors. To understand these factors better, we analyzed the evolution of the number of articles per major biomedical informatics topic, download/online view frequencies, and citation patterns (using Web of Science) for articles published from 2009 to 2012 in JAMIA. The number of articles published in JAMIA increased significantly from 2009 to [...]
Author(s): Jiang, Xiaoqian, Tse, Krystal, Wang, Shuang, Doan, Son, Kim, Hyeoneui, Ohno-Machado, Lucila
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2013-002429
Author(s): Ohno-Machado, Lucila
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2013-002434
Extracting comorbidity information is crucial for phenotypic studies because of the confounding effect of comorbidities. We developed an automated method that accurately determines comorbidities from electronic medical records. Using a modified version of the Charlson comorbidity index (CCI), two physicians created a reference standard of comorbidities by manual review of 100 admission notes. We processed the notes using the MedLEE natural language processing system, and wrote queries to extract comorbidities [...]
Author(s): Salmasian, Hojjat, Freedberg, Daniel E, Friedman, Carol
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2013-001889
We define and validate an architecture for systems that identify patient cohorts for clinical trials from multiple heterogeneous data sources. This architecture has an explicit query model capable of supporting temporal reasoning and expressing eligibility criteria independently of the representation of the data used to evaluate them.
Author(s): Bache, Richard, Miles, Simon, Taweel, Adel
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2013-001858
This study compares the yield and characteristics of diabetes cohorts identified using heterogeneous phenotype definitions.
Author(s): Richesson, Rachel L, Rusincovitch, Shelley A, Wixted, Douglas, Batch, Bryan C, Feinglos, Mark N, Miranda, Marie Lynn, Hammond, W Ed, Califf, Robert M, Spratt, Susan E
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2013-001952
The secondary use of electronic healthcare records (EHRs) often requires the identification of patient cohorts. In this context, an important problem is the heterogeneity of clinical data sources, which can be overcome with the combined use of standardized information models, virtual health records, and semantic technologies, since each of them contributes to solving aspects related to the semantic interoperability of EHR data.
Author(s): Fernández-Breis, Jesualdo Tomás, Maldonado, José Alberto, Marcos, Mar, Legaz-García, María del Carmen, Moner, David, Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín, Esteban-Gil, Angel, Martínez-Salvador, Begoña, Robles, Montserrat
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2013-001923
Widespread sharing of data from electronic health records and patient-reported outcomes can strengthen the national capacity for conducting cost-effective clinical trials and allow research to be embedded within routine care delivery. While pragmatic clinical trials (PCTs) have been performed for decades, they now can draw on rich sources of clinical and operational data that are continuously fed back to inform research and practice. The Health Care Systems Collaboratory program, initiated [...]
Author(s): Richesson, Rachel L, Hammond, W Ed, Nahm, Meredith, Wixted, Douglas, Simon, Gregory E, Robinson, Jennifer G, Bauck, Alan E, Cifelli, Denise, Smerek, Michelle M, Dickerson, John, Laws, Reesa L, Madigan, Rosemary A, Rusincovitch, Shelley A, Kluchar, Cynthia, Califf, Robert M
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2013-001926
Mental illness is the leading cause of disability in the USA, but boundaries between different mental illnesses are notoriously difficult to define. Electronic medical records (EMRs) have recently emerged as a powerful new source of information for defining the phenotypic signatures of specific diseases. We investigated how EMR-based text mining and statistical analysis could elucidate the phenotypic boundaries of three important neuropsychiatric illnesses-autism, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia.
Author(s): Lyalina, Svetlana, Percha, Bethany, LePendu, Paea, Iyer, Srinivasan V, Altman, Russ B, Shah, Nigam H
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2013-001933
Large-scale biorepositories that couple biologic specimens with electronic health records containing documentation of phenotypic expression can accelerate scientific research and discovery. However, differences between those subjects who participate in biorepository-based research and the population from which they are drawn may influence research validity. While an opt-out approach to biorepository-based research enhances inclusiveness, empirical research evaluating voluntariness, risk, and the feasibility of an opt-out approach is sparse, and factors influencing patients' [...]
Author(s): Rosenbloom, S Trent, Madison, Jennifer L, Brothers, Kyle B, Bowton, Erica A, Clayton, Ellen Wright, Malin, Bradley A, Roden, Dan M, Pulley, Jill
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2013-001937