Published on in Vol 6, No 1 (2018): Jan-Mar

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/9150, first published .
Automating Quality Measures for Heart Failure Using Natural Language Processing: A Descriptive Study in the Department of Veterans Affairs

Automating Quality Measures for Heart Failure Using Natural Language Processing: A Descriptive Study in the Department of Veterans Affairs

Automating Quality Measures for Heart Failure Using Natural Language Processing: A Descriptive Study in the Department of Veterans Affairs

Jennifer Hornung Garvin   1, 2, 3, 4, 5 , MBA, PhD ;   Youngjun Kim   2, 6 , MS ;   Glenn Temple Gobbel   7, 8 , PhD, DVM ;   Michael E Matheny   7, 8 , MPH, MD, MS ;   Andrew Redd   2, 4 , PhD ;   Bruce E Bray   2, 3 , MD ;   Paul Heidenreich   9 , MD, MS ;   Dan Bolton   2, 4 , PhD ;   Julia Heavirland   2 , MA ;   Natalie Kelly   2 , MBA ;   Ruth Reeves   7, 8 , PhD ;   Megha Kalsy   2, 3 , PhD ;   Mary Kane Goldstein   10, 11 , MD, MS ;   Stephane M Meystre   2, 6 , MD, PhD

1 Health Information Management and Systems Division, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States

2 IDEAS 2.0 Health Services Research and Development Research Center, Salt Lake City Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, Department of Veterans Affairs, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

3 Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

4 Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

5 Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center, Salt Lake City Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, Department of Veterans Affairs, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

6 Translational Biomedical Informatics Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, United States

7 Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center, Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Department of Veterans Affairs, Nashville, TN, United States

8 Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States

9 Palo Alto Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Department of Veterans Affairs, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, United States

10 Medical Service, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA, United States

11 Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States

Corresponding Author:

  • Jennifer Hornung Garvin, MBA, PhD
  • Health Information Management and Systems Division
  • School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
  • The Ohio State University
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  • Columbus, OH, 43210
  • United States
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  • Email: jennifer.garvin@hsc.utah.edu