The Challenge Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs), also known as drug side effects, are a major concern for public health, costing health care systems worldwide millions of dollars. Social media has been identified as a source of information that could be used to find signals of potential ADRs to supplement traditional passive approaches from regulatory agencies. […]
The Challenge Search technologies are critical to enable clinical staff to rapidly and effectively access patient information contained in free-text medical records. Medical search is challenging as it suffers from the semantic gap problem: the mismatch between the raw data and the way a human being interprets it. Valuable domain knowledge explicitly represented in structured […]
The Challenge The checking of X-ray reports to ensure limb fractures are not missed and that patients receive appropriate follow-up once discharged from the Emergency Department (ED) is an essential but laborious task.
The Challenge Death certificates provide an invaluable source for mortality statistics, which can be used for surveillance and early warnings of increases in disease activity and to support the development and monitoring of prevention or response strategies. However, this value can be realised only if timely, accurate and quantitative data is extracted from death certificates, […]
Pathology notification for a Cancer Registry is regarded as the most valid information for the confirmation of a diagnosis of cancer. The development of a clinical decision support system to unlock information from medical free-text can significantly reduce costs arising from manual processes and enable improved decision support, enhancing efficiency and timeliness of cancer information […]
The challenge: Adopting the international standard for healthcare data Electronic management of health information promises safer, more efficient and better quality healthcare. However, different health records often use various terms to describe the same medical concept. This creates a major stumbling block when it comes to integrating this data electronically. Australia has joined many other […]
The challenge: Incompatible health data Australia’s health care system faces many challenges. One is the increasing demand for clinical information to be shared between individual health practitioners, health care provider organisations and state/territory health departments. Patient data is often captured in disparate electronic systems, different formats, and described using different clinical terminologies or “languages”. This […]
