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Newest firstIntroductionHealth information exchanges (HIEs) provide the capability to electronically move health care information among different health care information systems and store these data for downstream use cases. However, use of data from HIEs for postmarketing surveillance of medical products is not previously explored. ObjectivesTo conduct a pilot descriptive study characterizing data from MyHealth Access Networ…
Open article record in new tab ↗BackgroundMortality is a critical variable in healthcare research, especially for evaluating medical product safety and effectiveness. However, inconsistencies in the availability and timeliness of death date and cause of death (CoD) information present significant challenges. Conventional sources such as the National Death Index (NDI) and electronic health records (EHRs) often suffer from data lags, missing field…
Open article record in new tab ↗ObjectiveTo evaluate the validity of death ascertainment from publicly available internet media (IM) sources by benchmarking against state and Federal vital statics data for patients in two large healthcare systems from the US. MethodsWe extracted names and dates of birth and death from publicly available data--including obituaries and memorial websites--using previously developed natural language processing model…
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