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The widespread adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) has enabled the use of clinical data for clinical research and practice. Since a significant portion of relevant patient information is embedded in clinical narratives, natural language processing (NLP) techniques such as information extraction have become critical for using EHRs in clinical research. Meanwhile, encoding entire EHR data in a patient representation has shown promising results in predictive modeling, and could help clinical decision making and facilitate translational research. This talk will feature clinical NLP methodologies and applications, and discuss why learning better representations from EHRs is crucial for clinical and translational research.

A journal club and conversation with Deborah Lauseng, Brenda Linares, Megan von Isenberg, Kristine Alpi and invited guests from the Medical Informatics Caucus of the Medical Library Association to discuss " Library involvement in health informatics education for health professions students and practitioners" Watch the Recording Presenters

Dr. Ashish Joshi discussed efforts of the Global Health Informatics working group to engage learners in a variety of collaborative informatics activities, shared about students engaged in his own funded global health informatics projects, and presented opportunities for the Education working group to collaborate on efforts to enhance our shared knowledge of global health informatics education.

Dr. Bačkonja discussed the work she and her colleagues did to understand the design needs of individuals experiencing menopause and provide additional insights and take-aways not included in the corresponding JAMIA article.

Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, the UC San Diego Health clinical informatics team set the pace with the world's first publication describing EHR optimization for COVID, the first imaging AI tool in production to help identify COVID pneumonia, the first pilot of smartphone exposure notification in California, and the first health system in the United States to issue digital vaccine records. This was followed by several NEJM articles with the first real-world effectiveness study of the COVID vaccines (March 2021), followed by the first United States demonstration of waning effectiveness in healthcare workers (September 2021), prompting the CDC to recommend booster shots for those at high occupational risk. In this talk, learn the stories behind these accomplishments and how the pandemic catalyzed the UC San Diego Health journey to becoming a learning health system.

The employment of medical scribes to document in the electronic health record (EHR) on behalf of providers has become commonplace, but it could pose patient safety risks because scribes most often have no clinical training. This presentation will be based on a pre-COVID study published in JAMIA that investigated the work of scribes and identified best practices to assure that scribe use of the EHR is not a patient safety risk. It will be enhanced with a discussion of the impact of the pandemic on the safe use of scribes.

Dr.Brian S. Alper Alper presented summaries of recently published RCT evidence and current guideline recommendations regarding anticoagulation for patients hospitalized with COVID-19. Watch the Recording Presenter

Dr. John Horn and Dr. David Bates discussed an evaluation of Seegnal, a company that has developed novel medication-related decision tool support which can be implemented within any electronic health record. They also presented the results of an evaluation study that resulted in 93% fewer medication alerts than the native [...]