LabArchives Director of Product Experience, Marie M. Linvill and Enterprise Research IS Applications Manager, Lynn Simpson presented on LabArchives functionality and Electronic Lab Notebook requirements at Partners HealthCare. Listen to the recorded presentation: streaming recording or download recording Read more »

Jigar Kadakia, PHS Chief Information Security and Privacy Officer PHS Information Security reported on the November 2018 Cybersecurity drill: a review and lessons learned. Listen to the recorded presentation: streaming recording or download recording Read more »

Introduction to Machine Learning & Evaluating Models Niranjan Bhosarekar (Business Intelligence Knowledge Engineer at Neighborhood Health Plan) Using R on IDEA Platform, I will go through the very basics of building and evaluating predictive models. I will cover some of the ways we are using R at Neighborhood Health Plan. Based on our own experience, I will also touch upon how IDEA platform gives us the flexibility to switch between Big Data tools and programming... Read more »

Machine learning analysis of maternal pregnancy clinical notes to predict newborns at risk for neonatal abstinence syndrome Joseph Chou (PHYSICIAN, Pediatric Medical Services - MGH) Natural language processing was applied to unstructured free text clinical notes to generate a predictive model identifying newborns at risk for opioid withdrawal. The predictive model had good performance, without requiring subject matter expertise or manual data abstraction for training, and selected sparse and interpretable features. This approach has promise... Read more »