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Aquilent's Work Supporting the National Library of Medicine Featured at AMIA 2006 Symposium
Four Aquilent employees' work in support of the National Library of Medicine's mission is featured at the American Medical Informatics Association's (AMIA) 2006 Annual Symposium.
The Symposium emphasizes peer-reviewed work, mixed with panels of the leading experts in the field.
AMIA is an organization of 3,500 leaders shaping the future of health information technology in the United States and abroad. AMIA's membership supports the development and application of medical informatics in support of patient care, teaching, research, and health care administration.
Aquilent is proud to have a role in sharing ideas for improving health care through applied technology. Aquilent's participation at AMIA includes:
Paper—Besides Precision & Recall: Exploring Alternative Approaches to Evaluating an Automatic Indexing Tool for MEDLINE
- The paper explores alternative approaches for the evaluation of an automatic indexing tool for MEDLINE, complementing the traditional precision and recall method. It introduces alternative evaluation measures for automatic MeSH indexing, semantic similarity and document retrieval overlap.
- Nominated for the AMIA Distinguished Paper Award
- Authored by Kelly Zeng
Demonstration—RxNav - Providing Standard Drug Information
Expressing Terminologies for Practical Use (track)
Expressing Terminologies for Practical Use (track)
- RxNav is a browser for RxNorm, the NLM repository of standard names for clinical drugs. RxNorm is one of a suite of designated standards for use in U.S. Federal Government systems for the electronic exchange of clinical health information.
- Presented by Kelly Zeng
Poster—RxNav A Web Service for Standard Drug Information
- RxNav has been successfully deployed for almost two years, with an average of about 20 users per day. RxNav has been recently redesigned using web services resulting in the improvement of several of its features.
- Presented by Kelly Zeng
Paper—Exploring User Navigation during Online Health Information Seeking
Information Systems Use, Users, Usability (track)
Information Systems Use, Users, Usability (track)
- The paper describes prevalent user navigation trends using transaction log analysis methods at ClinicalTrials.gov. Preliminary results suggest that users typically access low-level pages directly from Web-based search engines and consumer health sites/portals.
- Co-authored and presented by Alla Keselman
Poster—Relating Consumer Knowledge of Health Terms and Health Concepts
- In consumer health vocabulary (CHV) research, term familiarity serves as a proxy for comprehension. We pilot-tested a survey to assess knowledge of terms among consumers. Preliminary results suggest that familiarity exceeds understanding for “common” CHV terms, but are similar for “less common” terms.
- Primary author and presented by Alla Keselman
Paper—Summarizing Drug Information in Medline Citations
Clinical Information Extraction Session (track)
Clinical Information Extraction Session (track)
- Adverse drug events and drug-drug interactions are a major concern in patient care. The paper proposes a methodology based on automatic summarization to identify drug information in Medline citations and present results to the user in a convenient form.
- Co-authored by Halil Kilicoglu
Paper—Enhancing Biomedical Ontologies through Alignment of Semantic Relationships: Exploratory Approaches
Text Based Ontologies (track)
Text Based Ontologies (track)
- The paper investigates several methods for aligning Metathesaurus relationships with their counterparts in the UMLS Semantic Network. The work is a first step in the attempt to build a more comprehensive ontology of biomedical relationships
- Co-authored by Lee Peters
