Repurposing the Clinical Record: Can an Existing Natural Language Processing System De-identify Clinical Notes?

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 37-39

  Morrison, Frances P ^a   Li, Li ^a   Lai, Albert M ^a   Hripcsak, George ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RECORD; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PATIENT CODING;

CONFIDENTIALITY; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 57149148103     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2862     Document Type: Article

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