Leigh Anne Tang, a PhD student in the lab, led a new study now out in JMIR Public Health and Surveillance based on her work as an analyst with incredible collaborators at the Tennessee Department of Health. Read the full study here; the abstract is below. Background: Fatal drug overdose surveillance informs prevention but is…
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Dr. Walsh Inducted into the American College of Medical Informatics
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,…
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…
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