Working Group Webinar Library

Anna Ostropolets, MD, PhD Candidate presents "Data Consult Service Generating New Clinical Evidence at the Point of Care.

The widespread adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) has enabled the use of clinical data for clinical research and practice. Since a significant portion of relevant patient information is embedded in clinical narratives, natural language processing (NLP) techniques such as information extraction have become critical for using EHRs in clinical research. Meanwhile, encoding entire EHR data in a patient representation has shown promising results in predictive modeling, and could help clinical decision making and facilitate translational research. This talk will feature clinical NLP methodologies and applications, and discuss why learning better representations from EHRs is crucial for clinical and translational research.

Dr. Ashish Joshi discussed efforts of the Global Health Informatics working group to engage learners in a variety of collaborative informatics activities, shared about students engaged in his own funded global health informatics projects, and presented opportunities for the Education working group to collaborate on efforts to enhance our shared knowledge of global health informatics education.

Lisiane Pruinelli PhD, MS, RN, FAMIA present her research on The Potential of Big Data Science to Address Complex Health Conditions.