Improving the Efficacy of the Data Entry Process for Clinical Research With a Natural Language Processing–Driven Medical Information Extraction System: Quantitative Field Research

Jiang Han   ^{1, 2 *} , MPH ;   Ken Chen   ^{3 *} , BS ;   Lei Fang   ³ , MS ;   Shaodian Zhang   ^{3, 4} , PhD ;   Fei Wang   ^{3, 5} , PhD ;   Handong Ma   ^{3, 6} , MS ;   Liebin Zhao   ^{2, 7} , MS ;   Shijian Liu   ^{1, 2} , PhD

¹ Pediatric Translational Medicine Institute, Shanghai Children’s Medical Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

² School of Public Health, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

³ Synyi Research, Shanghai, China

⁴ APEX Data and Knowledge Management Lab, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

⁵ Department of Healthcare Policy and Research, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, United States

⁶ Department of computer science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

⁷ Child Health Advocacy Institute, Shanghai Children’s Medical Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

*these authors contributed equally