Clinical Data Processing Clause Samples

Clinical Data Processing. Despite the obvious benefits of structured reports, majority of EMR systems still allows for (thus encourages) narrative text narration. To facilitate large-scale research and clinical use of data embedded in narrative text, pertinent data needs to be identified first. Figure 1.2 shows a typical pipeline for processing medical reports: valuable facts are extracted from free text EMR either manually or with automated information extraction system. Diagnosis is then realized through human effort or software tools, is conducted based on extracted structured data.