Healthcare Informatics August 8, 2018
Developed at the University of Michigan, EMERSE allows users to search the EHR’s unstructured clinical notes
Those of us who cover healthcare informatics often hear clinicians and researchers talk about the problems involved in doing analytics or research on unstructured data in clinical notes. That was why I was intrigued when I saw that informatics teams at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine are implementing a tool called EMERSE (Electronic Medical Record Search Engine), which allows users to search free-text clinical notes from the electronic health record (EHR). They describe it as being like “Google” for clinical notes.
But then I noticed that the tool was actually created quite a while ago, in 2005, at the University...
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