I am a programer / entrepreneur working on a voice data entry system for EMR. To me, the future of EMR data entry will be voice based. I am still researching / analyzing this idea and am happy to discuss with anyone interested. Technically, the key technologies for my project will be speech recognition and natural language processing. I am currently intensively working on the speech recognition part.
My other interest is to create shortcuts for physicians to expedite/automate their routine tasks. Before starting this adventure, I worked for Kaiser Permanente for close to 10 years. In addition to kp.org/mydoctor web site and a video visit application, I built a population management suit from the ground up. We extracted data from various clinical systems, used domain specific language to describe care-path rules and calculate the reminders for all patients in the north California region. Qianfan "Melvin" Ma On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 1:20 PM, Thomas W Loehfelm <twloehf...@ucdavis.edu> wrote: > Now seems like as good a time as any for an introduction. It is great to > hear about other organizations working to install cTAKES. > > I'm a radiologist at UC Davis in Sacramento, and came across cTAKES back > in July. I have it up and running on a personal Windows laptop where I've > used it for some small scale projects, and am working with a few other > people at UC Davis to install it in a server environment where we can apply > it to NLP tasks on larger clinical document libraries. My IRB for access to > 10+ years worth of radiology, pathology, and operative notes should be > approved any day now! > > I haven't quite figured out the final work flow. I'm debating between > coming up with a default analysis pipeline, processing all of the > documents, storing the CASes that result, and pulling subsets of them for > information extraction on a project-by-project basis (storing information > as needed in ad hoc MYSQL database schema) vs. custom processing pipelines > for each specific project and using the built-in YTEX database as the main > repository. > > Thanks to you all for your work so far in developing and sharing cTAKES. I > am not very facile with Git, Maven, or formal software engineering > concepts. I am willing to learn though, and willing to help out wherever I > can contribute. > > Regards, > Thomas Loehfelm, MD, PhD > Assistant Professor, Radiology > Abdominal Imaging > University of California, Davis > >
