The findings, thought to be the first demonstrating NLP’s value for this purpose, suggest “the huge potential of leveraging NLP for asthma care and research,” researchers said.
Dr. Wi said the system can be applied to any EHR system. He said it only makes sense to put an algorithm to use in this way – it saves both clinical time and time in doing research projects.
“Whenever we do asthma research we need to collect asthma risk factors anyway, but we don’t want to do manual chart review anymore in this EMR era,” he said. “Now, the computer can do it.”
SOURCE: Wi C AAAAI/WAO Joint Congress 2018 abstract 637.