> a large amount of what we were after as researchers was only available in free-text
Is there no way to parse this? Surely the EMR systems could have a simple key-value syntax. Patient history is too complex to be expressed that way but there is a lot of other valuable data that could. Blood pressure, for example. Ideally, things like lab results would already be stored as structured data.
Is there no way to parse this? Surely the EMR systems could have a simple key-value syntax. Patient history is too complex to be expressed that way but there is a lot of other valuable data that could. Blood pressure, for example. Ideally, things like lab results would already be stored as structured data.