Faculty, Staff and Student Publications
Open-access journal articles of faculty, students and staff from McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston Faculty. School focus areas include Clinical and Cognitive Informatics, Biomedical Engineering, Public Health Informatics, and Translational Biomedical Informatics.
Submissions from 2021
Comprehensive Characterization of COVID-19 Patients with Repeatedly Positive SARS-CoV-2 Tests Using a Large U.S. Electronic Health Record Database., Xiao Dong, Yujia Zhou, Xiao-Ou Shu, et al.
Exchanges in a Virtual Environment for Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support: Social Network Analysis., Carlos A Pérez-Aldana, Allison A Lewinski, Constance M Johnson, et al.
Med-BERT: pretrained contextualized embeddings on large-scale structured electronic health records for disease prediction., Laila Rasmy, Yang Xiang, Ziqian Xie, et al.
Generalized and transferable patient language representation for phenotyping with limited data., Yuqi Si, Elmer V Bernstam, and Kirk Roberts
Digital Technology Needs in Maternal Mental Health: A Qualitative Inquiry., Alexandra Zingg, Laura Carter, Deevakar Rogith, et al.
Submissions from 2020
Understanding spatial language in radiology: Representation framework, annotation, and spatial relation extraction from chest X-ray reports using deep learning., Surabhi Datta, Yuqi Si, Laritza Rodriguez, et al.
COVID-19 TestNorm: A tool to normalize COVID-19 testing names to LOINC codes., Xiao Dong, Jianfu Li, Ekin Soysal, et al.
Representation of EHR data for predictive modeling: a comparison between UMLS and other terminologies., Laila Rasmy, Firat Tiryaki, Yujia Zhou, et al.
Digilego for Peripartum Depression: A Novel Patient-Facing Digital Health Instantiation, J Rodin, C Timko, and S Harris
Causal Discovery in Radiographic Markers of Knee Osteoarthritis and Prediction for Knee Osteoarthritis Severity With Attention-Long Short-Term Memory., Yanfei Wang, Lei You, Jacqueline Chyr, et al.
Deep learning in clinical natural language processing: a methodical review., Stephen Wu, Kirk Roberts, Surabhi Datta, et al.
Submissions from 2019
Deep Patient Representation of Clinical Notes via Multi-Task Learning for Mortality Prediction., Yuqi Si and Kirk Roberts
Enhancing clinical concept extraction with contextual embeddings., Yuqi Si, Jingqi Wang, Hua Xu, et al.
Submissions from 2018
Effects of a Community Population Health Initiative on Blood Pressure Control in Latinos., James R Langabeer, Timothy D Henry, Carlos Perez Aldana, et al.
A Frame-Based NLP System for Cancer-Related Information Extraction., Yuqi Si and Kirk Roberts
Submissions from 2011
Comparison of clinical knowledge management capabilities of commercially-available and leading internally-developed electronic health records., Dean F Sittig, Adam Wright, Seth Meltzer, et al.
Submissions from 2010
Sequential incoherence in a multi-party synchronous computer mediated communication for an introductory Health Informatics course., Jorge R Herskovic, J Caleb Goodwin, Pamela A Bozzo Silva, et al.
Can prospective usability evaluation predict data errors?, Constance M Johnson, Meredith Nahm, Ryan J Shaw, et al.
Submissions from 2009
Use of instructional video to prepare parents for learning infant cardiopulmonary resuscitation., Timothy S. Brannon, Lisa A. White, Julie N. Kilcrease, et al.
Computerized provider order entry adoption: implications for clinical workflow., Emily M. Campbell, Kenneth P. Guappone, Dean F. Sittig, et al.
Taxonomy development and knowledge representation of nurses' personal cognitive artifacts., Sharon McLane and James P Turley
Ontology driven integration platform for clinical and translational research, Parsa Mirhaji, Min Zhu, Mattew Vagnoni, et al.
Improving follow-up of abnormal cancer screens using electronic health records: trust but verify test result communication., Hardeep Singh, Lindsey Wilson, Laura A Petersen, et al.
Improving clinical quality indicators through electronic health records: it takes more than just a reminder., Dean F Sittig, Jonathan M Teich, Jerome A Osheroff, et al.
Clinical decision support capabilities of commercially-available clinical information systems., Adam Wright, Dean F Sittig, Joan S Ash, et al.