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. 2011:2011:248-56.
Epub 2011 Oct 22.

The SHARPn project on secondary use of Electronic Medical Record data: progress, plans, and possibilities

Christopher G Chute  1 , Jyotishman Pathak, Guergana K Savova, Kent R Bailey, Marshall I Schor, Lacey A Hart, Calvin E Beebe, Stanley M Huff
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The SHARPn project on secondary use of Electronic Medical Record data: progress, plans, and possibilities

Christopher G Chute et al. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2011.

Abstract

SHARPn is a collaboration among 16 academic and industry partners committed to the production and distribution of high-quality software artifacts that support the secondary use of EMR data. Areas of emphasis are data normalization, natural language processing, high-throughput phenotyping, and data quality metrics. Our work avails the industrial scalability afforded by the Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) from IBM Watson Research labs, the same framework which underpins the Watson Jeopardy demonstration. This descriptive paper outlines our present work and achievements, and presages our trajectory for the remainder of the funding period. The project is one of the four Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) projects funded by the Office of the National Coordinator in 2010.

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SHARPn Project Organization
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Hypothyroidism algorithm (courtesy of the eMERGE consortia)
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UIMA integration into MIRTH translation platform
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