Sijia Liu, Yanshan Wang, Na Hong, F. Shen, Stephen T Wu, W. Hersh, Hongfang Liu
{"title":"On Mapping Textual Queries to a Common Data Model","authors":"Sijia Liu, Yanshan Wang, Na Hong, F. Shen, Stephen T Wu, W. Hersh, Hongfang Liu","doi":"10.1109/ICHI.2017.63","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICHI.2017.63","url":null,"abstract":"The widespread adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) has enabled data-driven approaches to clinical care and research. However, the performance and generalizability of those approaches are severely hampered by the lack of syntactic and semantic interoperability of EHR data across institutions. Towards resolving this problem, Common Data Models (CDMs) can be used to standardize the clinical data in clinical data repositories. In this paper, we described our mapping of entity mention types from patient-level information retrieval queries to an empirical subset of Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP) CDM data fields. We investigated the empirical data model by annotating multi-institutional clinical data requests in free text and comparing the distributions of data model fields. The similar distribution of the entity mention types from two different sites indicates that the data model is generalizable for multi-institutional cohort identification queries.","PeriodicalId":263611,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129921105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Integrated Patient Genomic Information Management and Analysis System for Healthcare Professionals","authors":"Amal Alzubi, Leming Zhou","doi":"10.1109/ICHI.2017.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICHI.2017.8","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, personal genomic data can be quickly generated in an affordable price. Abundant research results on genetic diseases have also been published in the past two decade. Therefore, it is desired to utilize updated genetic disease research results into personal genomic data analysis and apply them into genomics-based personalized healthcare. However, this is a challenging task for current healthcare professionals because the desired clinically relevant information is hidden in highly complex genomics data sets and in various types of databases, which were typically created for genomics researchers in the past. In this project, an integrated patient genomic information analysis and management system is created for healthcare professionals, especially physicians, so that they can conveniently access the desired patient genetic information and current research results related to the genetic makeup, and utilize the information in personalized healthcare practice. The accuracy of the data integrated in the system and analysis results from the system were evaluated and a usability study was conducted to determine the usability of the system by physicians. These evaluations indicated that the results obtained in this system were the same as the ones obtained from a manual but more tedious approach, and physicians could easily finish all the designed tasks and obtain desired data using the system.","PeriodicalId":263611,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI)","volume":"197 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133694631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jiayun Guo, Heather Bennett, B. Crouch, M. Cummins
{"title":"Reference Website Use Patterns of Poison Control Center Specialists","authors":"Jiayun Guo, Heather Bennett, B. Crouch, M. Cummins","doi":"10.1109/ICHI.2017.40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICHI.2017.40","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this pilot study was to describe web reference use patterns of poison control center specialists using time tracking software. We analyzed two weeks of web site use data from Utah poison control center (PCC) computers to describe patterns of reference web site use. We observed frequent use of webPOISONCONTROL and Amazon. Specialists visited additional reference web sites that feature tools such as calculators websites provided the function of age calculation was visited sometime. In the future we plan to conduct a qualitative study to interview Specialists in Poison Information to get the rationales of visiting these webpages. This pilot study demonstrates the utility of time tracking software for better understanding reference utilization in the PCC setting.","PeriodicalId":263611,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI)","volume":"218 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131608207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Adaptive Differential Privacy Algorithm for Range Queries over Healthcare Data","authors":"Asma Alnemari, C. Romanowski, R. Raj","doi":"10.1109/ICHI.2017.49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICHI.2017.49","url":null,"abstract":"Differential privacy is an approach that preserves patient privacy while permitting researchers access to medical data. This paper presents mechanisms proposed to satisfy differential privacy while answering a given workload of range queries. Representing input data as a vector of counts, these methods partition the vector according to relationships between the data and the ranges of the given queries. After partitioning the vector into buckets, the counts of each bucket are estimated privately and split among the bucket's positions to answer the given query set. The performance of the proposed method was evaluated using different workloads over several attributes. The results show that partitioning the vector based on the data can produce more accurate answers, while partitioning the vector based on the given workload improves privacy. This paper's two main contributions are: (1) improving earlier work on partitioning mechanisms by building a greedy algorithm to partition the counts' vector efficiently, and (2) its adaptive algorithm considers the sensitivity of the given queries before providing results.","PeriodicalId":263611,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114321117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Visual FHIR: An Interactive Browser to Navigate HL7 FHIR Specification","authors":"Na Hong, Kui Wang, Lixia Yao, Guoqian Jiang","doi":"10.1109/ICHI.2017.54","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICHI.2017.54","url":null,"abstract":"The HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) specification is emerging as a next generation standards framework for the exchange of electronic health records (EHR) data. The rich semantic representation and sophisticated structure definition of the FHIR requires a relatively deep learning curve to understand and utilize. The objective of our study is to design and develop a user-friendly interface for navigating and manipulating the FHIR specification. We prototyped a visualization platform for interactively exploring FHIR core resources and profiles. We evaluated the utility of the FHIR visualization platform using the evaluation metrics mainly focusing on its usability, interactive mechanisms and content expressiveness. We demonstrated that the visualization techniques are helpful for navigating the HL7 FHIR specification and aiding its profiling.","PeriodicalId":263611,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI)","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124598651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Gao, Jing Li, Teresa Wu, Kewei Chen, F. Lure, D. Weidman
{"title":"Diagnosis on Mild Cognitive Impairment Patients for Alzheimer Disease with Missing Data","authors":"F. Gao, Jing Li, Teresa Wu, Kewei Chen, F. Lure, D. Weidman","doi":"10.1109/ICHI.2017.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICHI.2017.13","url":null,"abstract":"Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is constructed as an intermediate stage between normal aging and Alzheimer disease (AD). Various clinical criteria have been developed to quantify the risk of MCI patients converting to AD. One risk assessment criterion in assisting clinical decision is based on the amount of cerebral amyloid measured with florbetapir-fluorine-18 positron emission tomography (18F-AV45-PET) imaging. However, PET imaging is not usually readily available. As a result, the advantages of these important imaging based biomarkers may not be fully utilized clinically. To tackle the problem where patients have these biomarkers missing, we propose to develop ensemble regression tree to estimate the biomarkers based on clinical and demographic features (Age, APOE status, cognitive test, etc.) and other imaging biomarkers such as MRI. The makeup dataset filled with these estimates are then used to develop a classification model to assess the risk of MCI patients converting to AD. Using dataset of 146 MCI patients from Alzheimer's disease neuroimaging initiative (ANDI), we conduct 16 sets of experiments with the missing ratios changing from 0.05 to 0.80 to test the performance of our proposed approach. The advantages of our model show well when the missing ratio ranges 0.2 to 0.6 with average 7.1% higher accuracy and 7.4% higher sensitivity comparing to the model without using the estimated fill-ins. This advantage diminishes as the missing ratio increases to 80% as expected.","PeriodicalId":263611,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130802320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xiaolei Huang, Linzi Xing, Jed R. Brubaker, Michael J. Paul
{"title":"Exploring Timelines of Confirmed Suicide Incidents Through Social Media","authors":"Xiaolei Huang, Linzi Xing, Jed R. Brubaker, Michael J. Paul","doi":"10.1109/ICHI.2017.47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICHI.2017.47","url":null,"abstract":"Suicide is one of leading causes of death worldwide, yet little data is available about the lives of suicide victims because most people do not seek treatment. Research has shown that people express suicidal ideation in social media, which can potentially be tapped to improve our understanding of the thoughts and behaviors of people prior to suicide. In this work, we introduce a novel dataset of Chinese social media accounts of 130 people who committed suicide between 2011 and 2016. We describe the demographic and geographic composition of the users, then conduct a longitudinal text analysis of their post histories, showing observable changes in content leading up to the time of death. With encouraging exploratory findings, we discuss directions for future research.","PeriodicalId":263611,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134345880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wearable Privacy: Skeletons in The Data Closet","authors":"Byron M. Lowens, V. Motti, Kelly E. Caine","doi":"10.1109/ICHI.2017.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICHI.2017.29","url":null,"abstract":"Equipped with sensors that are capable of collecting physiological and environmental data continuously, wearable technologies have the potential to become a valuable component of personalized healthcare and health management. However, in addition to the potential benefits of wearable devices, the widespread and continuous use of wearables also poses many privacy challenges. In some instances, users may not be aware of the risks associated with wearable devices, while in other cases, users may be aware of the privacy-related risks, but may beunable to negotiate complicated privacy settings to meet their needs and preferences. This lack of awareness could have an adverse impact on users in the future, even becoming a \"skeleton in the closet.\" In this work, we conducted 32 semi-structured interviews to understand how users perceive privacy in wearable computing. Results suggest that user concerns toward wearable privacy have different levels of variety ranging from no concern to highly concerned. In addition, while user concerns and benefits are similar among participants in our study, these variablesshould be investigated more extensively for the development of privacy enhanced wearable technologies.","PeriodicalId":263611,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133141317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Continuous Assessment of Children’s Emotional States Using Acoustic Analysis","authors":"Yuan Gong, C. Poellabauer","doi":"10.1109/ICHI.2017.53","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICHI.2017.53","url":null,"abstract":"Emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) are a widespread healthcare concern in children and adolescents. Prevention and early intervention are the most powerful tools in ameliorating the problem, and therefore, timely and accurate detection of abnormal emotional patterns is of vital importance. In this paper, we propose a system that detects second-level emotional states of children using hour-level audio recordings. The proposed system consists of an audio segmentation and speaker tracking front-end along with an emotion recognition back-end. Supervised support vector machine is used in the front-end to improve its robustness to short and inconsistent child speech pattern and end-to-end deep learning is used in the emotion recognition back-end to improve its robustness to noise and segmentation error. We further demonstrate the potential of the proposed system as an automated emotion analysis tool.","PeriodicalId":263611,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134055187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Computable Adherence","authors":"Simon Diemert, J. Weber, Morgan Price","doi":"10.1109/ICHI.2017.96","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICHI.2017.96","url":null,"abstract":"Medication adherence, the degree to which patients consume their medications as agreed upon with a provider, continues to be a global problem of \"striking magnitude\". A lack of a precise understanding of what constitutes adherence has hindered informatics research and development in this area. This paper seeks to reduce definition confusion by presenting a formal (mathematically precise) model of medication adherence. The formalism is applied to the tangible problem of scheduling a patient's next dose of medication and is evaluated for soundness from a clinical perspective.","PeriodicalId":263611,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI)","volume":"19 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114047921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}