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Artificial intelligence approaches using natural language processing to advance EHR-based clinical research.

ABSTRACT: The wide adoption of electronic health record systems in health care generates big real-world data that open new venues to conduct clinical research. As a large amount of valuable clinical information is locked in clinical narratives, natural language processing techniques as an artificial intelligence approach have been leveraged to extract information from clinical narratives in electronic health records. This capability of natural language processing potentially enables automated chart review for identifying patients with distinctive clinical characteristics in clinical care and reduces methodological heterogeneity in defining phenotype, obscuring biological heterogeneity in research concerning allergy, asthma, and immunology. This brief review discusses the current literature on the secondary use of electronic health record data for clinical research concerning allergy, asthma, and immunology and highlights the potential, challenges, and implications of natural language processing techniques.

SUBMITTER: Juhn Y

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7771189 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Artificial intelligence approaches using natural language processing to advance EHR-based clinical research.

Juhn Young Y Liu Hongfang H

The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology 20191226 2

The wide adoption of electronic health record systems in health care generates big real-world data that open new venues to conduct clinical research. As a large amount of valuable clinical information is locked in clinical narratives, natural language processing techniques as an artificial intelligence approach have been leveraged to extract information from clinical narratives in electronic health records. This capability of natural language processing potentially enables automated chart review ...[more]

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