The vast amount of data on social media presents significant opportunities and challenges
for utilizing it as a resource for health informatics. The fifth iteration of the Social Media …

Background The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) has been a critical tool in
biomedical and health informatics, and the year 2021 marks its 30th anniversary. The UMLS …

Avatar Therapy (AT) is a modern therapeutic alternative for patients with schizophrenia
suffering from persistent auditory verbal hallucinations. Its intrinsic therapeutical process is …

Background A growing body of literature has detailed the use of qualitative analyses to
measure the therapeutic processes and intrinsic effectiveness of psychotherapies, which …

Motivation Drugs and diseases play a central role in many areas of biomedical research and
healthcare. Aggregating knowledge about these entities across a broader range of domains …

In this work, we consider the medical concept normalization problem, ie, the problem of
mapping a health-related entity mention in a free-form text to a concept in a controlled …

Background Patient portals tethered to electronic health records systems have become
attractive web platforms since the enacting of the Medicare Access and Children's Health …

Abstract The “Psychiatric Treatment Adverse Reactions”(PsyTAR) dataset contains patients'
expression of effectiveness and adverse drug events associated with psychiatric …

This paper describes a system developed for the Social Media Mining for Health (SMM4H)
2019 shared tasks. Specifically, we participated in three tasks. The goals of the first two tasks …

Introduction: Despite the growing efforts to standardize coding for social determinants of
health (SDOH), they are infrequently captured in electronic health records (EHRs). Most …