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Electronic Patient Records: Some Answers to the Data Representation and Reuse Challenges
S. Meystre, Managing Editor for the IMIA Yearbook Section on Patient Records
University of Utah, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Summary
Objectives: To summarize current excellent research in the field of patient records. Method: Synopsis of the papers selected for the IMIA Yearbook 2007. Results: The Electronic Patient Record encompasses a broad field of research and development. Some current research topics were selected for this IMIA Yearbook: EHR representation and communication standards, and secondary uses of clinical data for research and decision support. Four excellent papers representing the research in those fields were selected for the Patient Records section. Conclusion: The best papers selected for this section focus on the analysis and comparison of two important clinical documents representation standards, on direct structured data entry, on the use of Natural Language Processing to detect adverse events, and on the development and evaluation of a clinical text corpus annotated for part-of-speech information.
Keywords
Medical Informatics, Medical Records, Computerized Medical Record Systems, International Medical Informatics Association, Yearbook, natural language processing
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