We followed a systematic approach based on the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic
Reviews and Meta-Analyses to identify existing clinical natural language processing (NLP) …

eHealth interventions are recognized to have a tremendous potential to promote patient
engagement. To date, the majority of studies examine the efficacy of eHealth in enhancing …

Public health surveillance conducted by health departments in the United States has
improved in completeness and timeliness owing to electronic laboratory reporting. However …

This article discusses the requirements of a formal specification for the annotation of
temporal information in clinical narratives. We discuss the implementation and extension of …

Background Accurate influenza activity forecasting helps public health officials prepare and
allocate resources for unusual influenza activity. Traditional flu surveillance systems, such …

Electronic health records (EHRs) could contribute to improving population health in the
United States. Realizing this potential will require understanding what EHRs can realistically …

Objective Disease surveillance systems are expanding using electronic health records
(EHRs). However, there are many challenges in this regard. In the present study, the …

Accurate real-time monitoring systems of influenza outbreaks help public health officials
make informed decisions that may help save lives. We show that information extracted from …

Objective To develop an open-source temporal relation discovery system for the clinical
domain. The system is capable of automatically inferring temporal relations between events …

Narrative text is an important component of communication in health care, including patient-
specific information in health record reports and notes and general biomedical knowledge …