Friday, January 14, 2011

CVD and Diabetes

Present: Rich Grant, Stan Shaw, Rahul, Murphy, Vivian Gainer, Plenge

As the meeting was gathering, Robert Plenge asked the right question: Given how slow the NLP optimization process is, what can we do to make it faster? He drew an interesting analogy between the era of contigs, BAC's and YAC's that was boutique-like and the industrial whole genome process.

Discussed Richard Grants latest CVD algorithm which heavily uses the text of the clinician's problem lists (not the billing codes). This was implemented as a very large and complex logical predicate, rather than a probabilistic or statistical model.

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