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Profiling Lung Cancer Patients Using Electronic Health Records

Authors: Ernestina Menasalvas Ruiz, Juan Manuel Tuñas, Guzmán Bermejo, Consuelo Gonzalo Martín, Alejandro Rodríguez-González, Massimiliano Zanin, Cristina González de Pedro, Marta Méndez, Olga Zaretskaia, Jesús Rey, Consuelo Parejo, Juan Luis Cruz Bermudez, Mariano Provencio

Published in: Journal of Medical Systems | Issue 7/2018

Abstract

If Electronic Health Records contain a large amount of information about the patient’s condition and response to treatment, which can potentially revolutionize the clinical practice, such information is seldom considered due to the complexity of its extraction and analysis. We here report on a first integration of an NLP framework for the analysis of clinical records of lung cancer patients making use of a telephone assistance service of a major Spanish hospital. We specifically show how some relevant data, about patient demographics and health condition, can be extracted; and how some relevant analyses can be performed, aimed at improving the usefulness of the service. We thus demonstrate that the use of EHR texts, and their integration inside a data analysis framework, is technically feasible and worth of further study.

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Title: Profiling Lung Cancer Patients Using Electronic Health Records
Authors: Ernestina Menasalvas Ruiz
Juan Manuel Tuñas
Guzmán Bermejo
Consuelo Gonzalo Martín
Alejandro Rodríguez-González
Massimiliano Zanin
Cristina González de Pedro
Marta Méndez
Olga Zaretskaia
Jesús Rey
Consuelo Parejo
Juan Luis Cruz Bermudez
Mariano Provencio
Publication date: 01-07-2018
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Journal of Medical Systems / Issue 7/2018
Print ISSN: 0148-5598
Electronic ISSN: 1573-689X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-018-0975-9

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