Hi, I am using cTakes for extracting information from unstructured clinical narratives. I am working for an Indian based company that specializes in EHR digitization. I am currently working on same problem you have mentioned. Would be really helpful and beneficial, if we can use the power of big data technologies and distribute the process.
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 2:39 AM, Jay Vyas <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi ctakes! > > As a bioinformatician and Hadoop ecosystem engineer, I Was really > impressed with this project when I stumbled upon it recently, especially > the potential for streamlining several tricky areas medical informatics and > correlation analysis from abstracts, drugs, and patient records. > > Was curious if any ctakes folks in the boston area would be interested In > a code walk through or presentation,... I'd like to contribute if possible, > and possibly see how we could use ctakes alongside bigtop for a demo of a > medical informatics app. > > I'm an apache bigtop commiter and a bioinformatics phd, so would love to > contribute to bridging the gap between Hadoop and the biomedical world if > possible.
