i2b2 evaluation

John Bickel shared an interesting paper in which he and his colleagues investigated the use of i2b2 for cohort identification.

1/15/2014: All Hands Meeting:

Tim Miller, PhD (CS) from Guergana’s group presented his work on extracting and representing temporal relations from narrative text. And he focused on the “CONTAINS” relation which is useful in multiple ways which he illustrated across several use cases.

DBP: IBD

December 12th, 2013

Ashwin A.,

Three projects reviewed:

• Mortality and extra intestinal cancers in primary sclerosing cholangits (PSC) and inflammatory bowel disease.
• Vitamin D and C. Diff infections
• Thromboprophylaxis in IBD (post-hospitalization)