“So What Is Your Job, Exactly?”

2023-04-04

My team at Flatiron Health (but especially the inimitable Blythe Adamson) recently wrote an excellent overview of how we use machine learning to build research-ready oncology datasets from patient medical records — in a paper called Approach to Machine Learning for Extraction of Real-World Data Variables from Electronic Health Records.

This is a refreshingly simple and concise articulation of what I do at my day job! You can read the paper on Frontiers in Pharmacology, medRxiv, or read a brief overview on the Flatiron website.

To spare you a few clicks, here’s what I think is the most enlightening figure in the paper:

EHR — *Snippets of text from electronic health records are inputs to deep learning models that produce a variable value for each patient as an output. Source: Figure 5 in the paper.*

#Cancer #Machine-Learning #Natural-Language-Processing