Development and evaluation of an interoperable natural language processing system for identifying pneumonia across clinical settings of care and institutions.
Alec B ChapmanKelly S PetersonElizabeth RutterMckenna NeversMingyuan ZhangJian YingMakoto JonesDavid ClassenBarbara E JonesPublished in: JAMIA open (2022)
NLP can be used to accurately identify the diagnosis of pneumonia across different clinical settings and institutions. A limited amount of customization to account for differences in lexicon, clinical definition of pneumonia, and EHR structure can achieve high accuracy without substantial modification.