Friday, May 25, 2012

Defining cardiovascular disease phenotypes

Shaw, Liao et al.

Non-fatal MI, cardiac revascularization procedures, CHF, all CVD death

Defining DM

Cai et al.

In the data mart 314,292 patients that may have DM

Training sets had more than 2 notes and test set was not thresholded in the same way. That explains why our first iteration of the algorithm was so unstable!Untitled

Friday, May 11, 2012

Diabetes

Report on the diabetes data mart:

13,000,000 notes automatically read by the NLP engine and parsed into SNOMED. That's BIG DATA! This is perhaps the largest phenotypically detailed such database about diabetes.

Identity Management

Discussed a variety of techniques to include different quality master patient indices unified with the identity system within i2b2.

Friday, May 4, 2012

Multiple Sclerosis DBP & Inflammation

Zongqi Xia led a discussion of his projects regarding 1) EHR correlates of MS disease activity 2) Pre-symptomatic MS 3) Pharmacogenomics 4) MS comorbidities.

The discussion was the most extensive around how to evaluate the functional status.