Ensuring Electronic Medical Record Simulation Through Better Training, Modeling, and Evaluation
This on-demand webinar does not offer CE credit.
Zhang Z, Yan C, Mesa DA, Sun J, Malin BA. Ensuring electronic medical record simulation through better training, modeling, and evaluation. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2020 Jan 1;27(1):99-108. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocz161.
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Presenter
Chao Yan
Manager
Maryam Zolnoori, PhD
Moderator
Travis R. Goodwin, PhD
Statement of Purpose
Electronic medical records (EMRs) can support medical research and discovery, but privacy risks limit the sharing of such data on a wide scale. Various approaches have been developed to mitigate risk, including record simulation via generative adversarial networks (GANs). While showing promise in certain application domains, GANs lack a principled approach for EMR data that induces subpar simulation. In our work, we improve EMR simulation through a novel pipeline that (1) enhances the learning model of GANs, (2) incorporates evaluation criteria for data utility that informs learning, and (3) refines the training process. We evaluated the new and existing GANs with utility and privacy measures using billing codes from over 1 million EMRs at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and verify the effectiveness of our work.
Target Audience
The target audience for this activity is professionals and students interested in biomedical and health informatics.
Learning Objectives
The general learning objective for all of the JAMIA Journal Club webinars is that participants will
- Use a critical appraisal process to assess article validity and to gauge article findings' relevance to practice
After this live activity, the participant should be better able to:
- Comprehend the manner by which generative adversarial networks (GANs) work to simulate data relevant to electronic medical records (EMR)
- Distinguish between the differences in GAN architectures designed for the healthcare domain
- Describe utility and privacy evaluation measures for synthetic EMRs, and
- Identify conditional training strategies to inform the EMR generation for low-prevalence clinical concepts.
This JAMIA Journal Club does not offer continuing education credit.
In our dedication to providing unbiased education even when no CE credit is associated with it, we provide planners’ and presenters’ disclosure of relevant financial relationships with commercial interests that has the potential to introduce bias in the presentation:
Disclosures for this Activity
These faculty, planners, and staff who are in a position to control the content of this activity disclose that they and their life partners have no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests:
JAMIA Journal Club presenter: Chao Yan
JAMIA Journal Club planners: Michael Chiang, Travis Goodwin, Maryam Zolnoori
AMIA staff: Susanne Arnold, Pesha Rubinstein