NLP

Temporal Reasoning

Mendis, Bickel, Kohane, Weber, Murphy

Lots of back and forth about representing multiple versions/depictions of episode in patient selection. Discussion of which tables will bear the additional complexity.

Autoimmune CVD DBP

Murphy, Karlsson. Gainer, Shaw, Savova, Szolovits, Liao, Kohane, Churchill, Cai,

Discussed the NLP annotation pipeline (used by the "gold standard" annotators).

Discussed predictors of RA (by NLP and codified data) in patients who previously did not qualify as having RA.

CVD & DM DBP

Shaw, Savova, Liao, Churchill, Murphy, Gainer, Sordo, Kohane

Discussed how to learn lessons from other NLP CVD efforts that Guergana has been involved in (e.g. the eMERGE applications of her cTAKES framework). Discussed the addition of echocardiogram data.

Open source collaborations

Murphy, Kohane, Weber, Mendis, McGaw, Bickel

Reviewed the growing volume of AUG email related to installing i2b2 (multiple operating systems and RDBMS) and how to be responsive without overwhelming our other developer community support activities.

Discussed improvements to the i2b2 web client and incorporating contributions from the community.