title: Digital Family History Data Mining with Neural Networks: A Pilot Study.
abstract: Following the passage of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009, electronic health records were widely adopted by eligible physicians and hospitals in the United States. Stage 2 meaningful use menu objectives include a digital family history but no stipulation as to how that information should be used. A variety of data mining techniques now exist for these data, which include artificial neural networks (ANNs) for supervised or unsupervised machine learning. In this pilot study, we applied an ANN-based simulation to a previously reported digital family history to mine the database for trends. A graphical user interface was created to display the input of multiple conditions in the parents and output as the likelihood of diabetes, hypertension, and coronary artery disease in male and female offspring. The results of this pilot study show promise in using ANNs to data mine digital family histories for clinical and research purposes.
authors.affiliation: Health Informatics Program at the College of Science, Engineering and Health at the University of West Florida in Pensacola, FL.
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hoyt
authors.affiliation: Robert E. Mitchell Center for Prisoner of War Studies in Pensacola, FL.
authors.forename: Steven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Linnville
authors.affiliation: Imagination Engines in St. Charles, MO.
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Thaler
authors.affiliation: Robert E. Mitchell Center for Prisoner of War Studies in Pensacola, FL.
authors.forename: Jeffrey
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Moore
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D057171:American Recovery and Reinvestment Act; D057225:Data Mining; D057286:Electronic Health Records; D005192:Family Health; D005431:Florida; D006304:Health Status; D016045:Human Genome Project; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D062527:Meaningful Use; D016571:Neural Networks, Computer; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011329:Prisoners; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States; D014728:Veterans; D047829:Vietnam Conflict