Following their recent election, Dr. Walsh and 13 other new Fellows were inducted into the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) on November 6 at ceremonies during the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2022 Annual Symposium. “I am thrilled to welcome these 14 new, highly-accomplished ACMI Fellows to the College,” said ACMI President Genevieve Melton-Meaux, MD, PhD, FACMI,…
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New Paper – Improving ascertainment of suicidal ideation and suicide attempt with natural language processing
This new study out in Scientific Reports, led by Dr. Adi Bejan, uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) to improve how well we identify suicidal thoughts and behaviors in healthcare data. Methods relying on diagnostic codes to identify suicidal ideation and suicide attempt in Electronic Health Records (EHRs) at scale are suboptimal because suicide-related outcomes are…
Dr. Walsh a Panelist for NASEM’s Workshop on Innovative Data Science Approaches to Assess Suicide Risk in Individuals, Populations, and Communities
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Forum on Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders hosted a public 3-part webinar series on Innovative Data Science Approaches to Assess Suicide Risk in Individuals, Populations, and Communities: Current Practices, Opportunities, and Risks. The public virtual workshop was sponsored by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for…
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