Development of an extended medications application using natural language processing (NLP) techniques

  • Applicant: Jaya Chaturvedi
  • Project ID: 19-070

The purpose of this project is to help identify medication information from textual information in the health record. The results of this will be made available for use by other CRIS projects. As well as extracting basic medication information such as drug name/ dose/ route/ frequency (currently covered by the existing medication application), the application will aim to ascertain the initiation and cessation times for these medications, and whether the person being mentioned is the patient or someone else. The aim is to provide a more complete picture behind the mention of medications.

The Clinical Record Interactive Search (CRIS) system is a computer system that allows researchers at the NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) to carry out research using information from South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust clinical records.

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The Clinical Record Interactive Search has been developed in collaboration with:

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
NIHR Maudsley BRC