About 4.5 million patients聽聽in the United States. Transfusion side effects, including respiratory and circulatory reactions, are often hard to specifically聽. Scientists at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the Office of the Commissioner and Center for Veterinary Medicine wanted to research methods that could be used to proactively monitor electronic health records (EHR) to discover new safety concerns by reviewing historical EHR data to identify previously聽.听
有料盒子APP worked with the scientists to examine more than 20,000 past transfusion cases identified in the聽. Applying advanced natural language processing methods to unstructured clinicians鈥 notes within EHRs, our team of data scientists helped them quickly glean valuable information about actual and possible transfusion reactions, paving the way to a much faster, more聽direct way of discovering side effects, improving clinical care, and saving lives.