“While using usual data mining techniques should have been fine, clinical data is frequently entered as free-text. The great complexity and user-unfriendliness of interfaces that force clinical care providers to enter data in structured form with adequate degree of granularity only is a great disincentive.
To mitigate and attain a degree of balance of sorts, as things currently stand allowing free-text entries is the most prudent option to adopt. The pay-off being the necessity of using text-mining to cull the required data from these free-text contents to allow proper data analysis.”
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Healthcare IT, 8 December 2009
