Electronic patient records: some answers to the data representation and reuse challenges. Findings from the section on Patient Records.
OBJECTIVE
To summarize current excellent research in the field of patient records.


METHODS
Synopsis of the papers selected for the IMIA Yearbook 2007.


RESULTS
The Electronic Patient Record encompasses a broad field of research and development. Some current research topics were selected for this IMIA Yearbook: EHR representation and communication standards, and secondary uses of clinical data for research and decision support. Four excellent papers representing the research in those fields were selected for the Patient Records section.


CONCLUSIONS
The best papers selected for this section focus on the analysis and comparison of two important clinical documents representation standards, on direct structured data entry, on the use of Natural Language Processing to detect adverse events, and on the development and evaluation of a clinical text corpus annotated for part-of-speech information.
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University of Utah, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. s.meystre@utah.edu
D003142:Communication; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical; D001330:Electronic Data Processing; D006801:Humans; D019300:Medical Errors; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000639:trends*; D011643:Publishing / Q000592:standards; D049250:Speech Recognition Software