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Discovering Novel Adverse Drug Events Using Natural Language Processing and Mining of the Electronic Health Record

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Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 2009)

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This talk presents an overview of our research in use of medical knowledge, natural language processing, the electronic health record, and statistical methods to automatically discover novel adverse drug events, which are serious problems world-wide.

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  1. Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, US

    Carol Friedman

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  1. University of Verona, Department of Computer Science, Ca’ Vignal 2, strada le Grazie 15, 37134, Verona, Italy

    Carlo Combi

  2. Department of Information Systems Engineering, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, P.O. Box 653, 84105, Beer-Sheva, Israel

    Yuval Shahar

  3. Department of Medical Informatics, University of Amsterdam, Academic Medical Center, Meibergdreef 15, 1105, Amsterdam, AZ, The Netherlands

    Ameen Abu-Hanna

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Friedman, C. (2009). Discovering Novel Adverse Drug Events Using Natural Language Processing and Mining of the Electronic Health Record. In: Combi, C., Shahar, Y., Abu-Hanna, A. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. AIME 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5651. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02976-9_1

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