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Building bridges across electronic health record systems through inferred phenotypic topics.
Journal of biomedical informatics - 1 Jun 2015
Chen You, Ghosh Joydeep, Bejan Cosmin Adrian, Gunter Carl A, Gupta Siddharth, Kho Abel, Liebovitz David, Sun Jimeng, Denny Joshua, Malin Bradley
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OBJECTIVE: Data in electronic health records (EHRs) is being increasingly leveraged for secondary uses, ranging from biomedical association studies to comparative effectiveness. To perform studies at scale and transfer knowledge from one institution to another in a meaningful way, we need to harmonize the phenotypes in such systems. Traditionally, this has been accomplished through expert specification of...
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