[GPCG_TALK] GP text analysis

[Peter MacIsaac]

Jon,   Work of this nature was undertaken several years ago under a Dept Funded GPCG project. This project was the first research/evaluation project on SNOMED in Australia and helped establish a baseline of knowledge and evaluation of its content coverage in general practice in comparison to other systems such as ICD10AM, ICPCplus, DOCLE and CATCH.   The URL is http://gpa.senet.com.au/nav/res_nav/current/it.shtml#vocab   The raw GP records data was collected from the Medical Director research practices (with the support and cooperation of key MD figures such as Andrew Magennis and Geoff Sayer) and used for text analysis, evaluations of terminologies including SNOMED (in a project lead by Uni Adelaide and supported by the NCCH).   All is documented and much of the work can be downloaded. I am happy to provide an overview of what was done and I am sure Don Walker, who is the principle researcher and in my opinion the leading practitioner in the field of health terminology in Australia, would be pleased to be contacted.   There is no doubt that linguistic analysis has great potential for improving the way information is stored and retrieved from health records. I look forward to meeting up with you and seeing the results of your work.   As a final comment the fact that such EHR research material could be made available cost effectively and de-identified occurred because of the existence of the GP Research Network and the Adelaide University Medic_GP database.  Trying to orchestrate one off collections data with all the ethics approval and privacy considerations is quite a task.   Regards Peter MacIsaac MacIsaac Informatics   PS.  Thanks to Horst and the crew who have kept this list and residual GPCG activity going. Inspite of the occasional flames there is much sharing of useful stuff. I had fallen off for a while but pleased to be back.         Consulting in Health Informatics, Terminology & Data management and Health Policy. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0411403462 (mobile) 61611327 (office) peter_macisaac (skype) 8 Ewart St. Yarralumla 2600 "We trained hard, but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creation the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation." - >From Pertonii Arbitri AD 66, attributed to Gaius Petronus, a Roman General who later committed suicide.         Message: 2 Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:45:39 +1100 From: Jon Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [GPCG_TALK] Request for copies clinical notes for research       purposes To: gpcg_talk@ozdocit.org Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii   Dear List members, You've heard me discuss previously our need for clinical notes to test our work on recognising SNOMED CT terms. I appreciate that everyone is cautious about violating the confidentiality of their patients. Hence rather than try to get a large collection of notes from one location I am requesting a very small sample from many locations. If 50 people would be prepared to package up 20 sentences from any notes  that contain terms that you would expect to be present in a large terminology like SNOMED we would then have sample of 1000 sentences to do our trials on.  It is my hope that 20 sentences is not such a burden that people would feel they could vet the material and send it without undue time cost. yours in hope Jon         -------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Jon Patrick Chair of Language Technology School of Information Technologies    +61 2 9351 3524(Work) University of Sydney Sydney, 2006, Australia                +61 2 9351 3838(Fax)   Scamseek Project        http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~lkmrl/scamseek.htm Personal Page WEB Page        http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jonpat Research Group WEB Page       http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~rcdmnl/ Information Systems WEB Page  http://www.infosys.usyd.edu.au

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