Category: Health Informatics
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Two papers presented at Nodalida 2011
Two papers which I have co-written was presented at the The 18th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics, Riga, Latvia, May 11–13, 2011. The conference started out as focusing on NLP for the Nordic languages but now attracts participants from a score of countries. Attending this year were 130 people from mostly Europe. The first paper,…
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Paper accepted to the 13th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME)
We’ve had a paper accepted to the 13th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME’11), which this year will be held in Bled, Slovenia (July 2-6). The paper is written by myself, Martin Hassel and Maria Kvist and is titled Diagnosis Code Assignment Support Using Random Indexing of Patient Records – A Qualitative Feasibility Study.…
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Paper accepted to the XXIII International Conference of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (MIE 2011)
The paper Factuality Levels of Diagnoses in Swedish Clinical Text which I’ve written together with Hercules Dalianis and Maria Kvist has been accepted to the XXIII International Conference of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (MIE 2011), which will be held in Oslo, Norway 28th–31st August 2011. The paper describes work on an annotation project…
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Research proposal submitted to SSF encompassing 19 MSEK
Professor Henrik Boström and associate professor Lars Asker from System Analysis and associate professor Hercules Dalianis from IT for Health submitted a research proposal with the title High-Performance Data Mining for Drug Effect Detection to SSF (Strategiska stiftelsen) encompassing 19 MSEK and 5 years. University of Borås is co-applicant. Stakeholders are Astra Zeneca, Karolinska University Hospital and…
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17.000 appar om hälsa – rapport från Vitalis 2011
På Vitalismässan 2011 i Göteborg presenterades det senaste om IT för hälsa. Bland annat lärde jag mig att det nu finns 17.000 appar om hälsa för smartphones i världen. Allt från joggingprogram till mätning av blodsockervärden. En del av dem kan interagera med vårdens journalsystem. Detta illustrerar problemet med överföring av data mellan olika system…
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Research proposal KOL-text submitted to Vetenskapsrådet
A research proposal with the title: KOL-Text – Survey of prevelance of comorbidity, gender differences and treatment of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) using a large electronic patient record database, was submitted to Vetenskapsrådet in the area of Medicine. The proposal was jointly written with the Institute of Environmental Medicine (IMM) at Karolinska Institutet. The project…
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Funding accepted for exchange of researchers with University of California, San Diego
Sumithra Velupillai, fil.lic, obtained funding from Stockholm University for cooperation with the research group of associate professor Wendy Chapman at University of California, San Diego, (UCSD), USA. The funding will be used for exchange of researchers between IT for Health, DSV and the UCSD School of Medicine’s Division of Biomedical Informatics, San Diego, USA. The research area is…
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Seminar on “Designing the secondary user experience”
On 2 March Ole Andreas Alsos gave a seminar with the title “Designing the secondary user experience”. The seminar was both about the secondary user experience in general and about a study on mobile electronic patient record systems, used by physicians in front of patients in a hospital. In that situation, the physician is the primary…