Towards Shareable Data in Clinical Natural Language Processing: Generating Synthetic Electronic Health Records

  • Applicant: Julia Ive
  • Project ID: 18-103

Natural language processing has a potential to significantly improve healthcare research by uncovering information stored in unstructured clinical text; however, there are privacy concerns in many databases. We would like to investigate the extent to which we might generate wholly artificial clinical databases that would be anonymous by their nature and could be easily used for the development of natural language processing methods.

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