Author : Vagelis Hristidis
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9781420090413
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (94 download)
Book Synopsis Information Discovery on Electronic Health Records by : Vagelis Hristidis
Download or read book Information Discovery on Electronic Health Records written by Vagelis Hristidis and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009-12-10 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploiting the rich information found in electronic health records (EHRs) can facilitate better medical research and improve the quality of medical practice. Until now, a trivial amount of research has been published on the challenges of leveraging this information. Addressing these challenges, Information Discovery on Electronic Health Records explores the technology to unleash the data stored in EHRs. Assembling a truly interdisciplinary team of experts, the book tackles medical privacy concerns, the lack of standardization for the representation of EHRs, missing or incorrect values, and the availability of multiple rich health ontologies. It looks at how to search the EHR collection given a user query and return relevant fragments from the EHRs. It also explains how to mine the EHR collection to extract interesting patterns, group entities to various classes, or decide whether an EHR satisfies a given property. Most of the book focuses on textual or numeric data of EHRs, where more searching and mining progress has occurred. A chapter on the processing of medical images is also included. Maintaining a uniform style across chapters and minimizing technical jargon, this book presents the various ways to extract useful knowledge from EHRs. It skillfully discusses how EHR data can be effectively searched and mined.