BoB, a best-of-breed automated text de-identification system for VHA clinical documents

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 77-83

  Ferrández, Oscar ^a,b   South, Brett R ^a,b   Shen, Shuying ^a,b   Jeffrey Friedlin, F ^c   Samore, Matthew H ^a,b   Meystre, Stéphane M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b IDEAS Center SLCVA Healthcare System   (United States)

^c REGENSTRIEF INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BEST OF BREED AUTOMATED TEXT DE IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONFIDENTIALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; METHODOLOGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VETERANS HEALTH;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CONFIDENTIALITY; DATA MINING; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS;

EID: 84871853864     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001020     Document Type: Article

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