DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant):
Electronic medical record systems (EMR) contain a wealth of clinical data that is invaluable for biomedical research, but because there are no satisfactory methods to build coherent specialized knowledge bases, which represent the information in free text… More
DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant):
Electronic medical record systems (EMR) are held back because data entry is slow, expensive, and codified in a format unsuitable for relational database repositories. Medical Reporting Solutions has developed advanced technology, which can overcome these… More
Award Year / Program / Phase:2008 / SBIR / Phase II
Agency:HHS
Principal Investigator:
Award Amount:$852,683.00
Abstract:
DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Analyzing and processing free-text medical reports for data mining and clinical data interchange is one of the most challenging problems in medical informatics, yet it is crucial for continued research advances and impr
ovements in clinical care. Natural language… More
DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Recent advances in health information technology enable many organizations to collect, store, and use various types of medical information about individuals. As more and more patient records go online and become electro
nic, there will be increased opportunities… More
DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Electronic medical records and exchanges offer new opportunities for the analysis of population health data; however, new methods in natural language processing (NLP) must first be developed to structure and codify thes
e records, since most medical data is in… More