Friday, October 9, 2009

Major Depressive Disorder

Perlis, Smoller, Iosifescu et al.,

Discussed the new privacy guidelines that come with the new Recovery Act. This may make it harder for those of us who are trying to advance medical science and it is unclear if it will slow down those who are trying to commercially exploit patient data. What it is certain is that it will increase the workload/opportunities for lawyers specializing in medical privacy.

Victor reported that he is running Tianxi's logistic regression model of the NLP features on the 2M notes in the MDD data mart.

Discussed the cross-DBP NLP challenges worth investing some hardening on. So far this includes cigarette smoking, alcoholism, obesity, and other substance abuses.

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