Published on in Vol 12 (2024)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/49997, first published .
A Case Demonstration of the Open Health Natural Language Processing Toolkit From the National COVID-19 Cohort Collaborative and the Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery Programs for a Natural Language Processing System for COVID-19 or Postacute Sequelae of SARS CoV-2 Infection: Algorithm Development and Validation

A Case Demonstration of the Open Health Natural Language Processing Toolkit From the National COVID-19 Cohort Collaborative and the Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery Programs for a Natural Language Processing System for COVID-19 or Postacute Sequelae of SARS CoV-2 Infection: Algorithm Development and Validation

A Case Demonstration of the Open Health Natural Language Processing Toolkit From the National COVID-19 Cohort Collaborative and the Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery Programs for a Natural Language Processing System for COVID-19 or Postacute Sequelae of SARS CoV-2 Infection: Algorithm Development and Validation

Andrew Wen   1, 2 * , MSc ;   Liwei Wang   1, 2 * , PhD ;   Huan He   1 , PhD ;   Sunyang Fu   1, 2 , PhD ;   Sijia Liu   1 , PhD ;   David A Hanauer   3 , MSc, MD ;   Daniel R Harris   4 , PhD ;   Ramakanth Kavuluru   5 , PhD ;   Rui Zhang   6 , PhD ;   Karthik Natarajan   7 , PhD ;   Nishanth P Pavinkurve   7 , MSc ;   Janos Hajagos   8 , PhD ;   Sritha Rajupet   8 , MPH, MD ;   Veena Lingam   8 , MD ;   Mary Saltz   8 , MD ;   Corey Elowsky   8 , MSc ;   Richard A Moffitt   8 , PhD ;   Farrukh M Koraishy   9 , MD, PhD ;   Matvey B Palchuk   10 , MSc, MD ;   Jordan Donovan   10 , BS ;   Lora Lingrey   10 , BS ;   Garo Stone-DerHagopian   10 , BS ;   Robert T Miller   11 , MSc ;   Andrew E Williams   11, 12 , PhD ;   Peter J Leese   13 , MSPH ;   Paul I Kovach   13 , MPH ;   Emily R Pfaff   13 , PhD ;   Mikhail Zemmel   14 , MSc ;   Robert D Pates   14 , PhD ;   Nick Guthe   15 , BS ;   Melissa A Haendel   16 , PhD ;   Christopher G Chute   17 , DrPH, MD ;   Hongfang Liu   1, 2 , PhD ;   National COVID Cohort Collaborative   18 * ;   The RECOVER Initiative   18 *

1 Department of Artificial Intelligence and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States

2 McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States

3 Department of Learning Health Sciences, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

4 Institute for Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy, College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States

5 Division of Biomedical Informatics, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States

6 Division of Health Data Science, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, United States

7 Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, United States

8 Department of Biomedical Informatics, Stony Brook Medicine, Stony Brook, NY, United States

9 Division of Nephrology, Stony Brook Medicine, Stony Brook, NY, United States

10 TriNetX LLC, Cambridge, MA, United States

11 Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States

12 Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States

13 North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

14 University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States

15 Department of Population Health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States

16 University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Denver, CO, United States

17 Schools of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States

18 see Acknowledgments, Bethesda, MD, United States

*these authors contributed equally

Corresponding Author:

  • Hongfang Liu, PhD
  • McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics
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