Dollars for Profs
Dig Into University Researchers' Outside Income and Conflicts of Interest
Published Dec. 6, 2019
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Conflict of Interest
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Guergana Savova
Boston Children's Hospital, Department: Na
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Wired Informatics, LLC
Equity Interest - Non-publicly traded entity ( e.g., stock, stock option, or other ownership interest)
Dr. Savova helped create and continues to develop a Clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System (cTAKES; ctakes.apache.org), which was released under an open-sourced license – Apache 2.0. Wired Informatics is envisioned to provide services and products for clinical Natural Language Processing applications using the open source Apache cTAKES among other tools.), which was released under an open-sourced license. The purpose of the subject NIH funded research is to create novel technologies for processing clinical free text in the context of temporal relation discovery. The outcome of the research may improve the methods for processing clinical free text, which has the potential to indirectly benefit the Company.
In this Study we are investigating computational methods for creating timelines from the Electronic Medical Records. The best performing methods will be released as modules in the open-source Apache cTAKES. This grant may be related to Wired Informatics because after the open-source release of the methods in Apache cTAKES, Wired Informatics might choose to include the temporal module in its products. Of note, Apache cTAKES is distributed under the liberal Apache 2.0 license and any interested party (academic, industry, government, not-for-profit, individual) is allowed to use it in research/products, therefore there is no exclusivity of use to Wired Informatics.
Temporal relation discovery for clinical text
Project Narrative Temporal relations are of prime importance in biomedicine as they are intrinsically linked to diseases, signs and symptoms, and treatments. Understanding the timeline of clinically relevant events is key to the next generation of translational research where the importance of generalizing over large amounts of data holds the promise of deciphering biomedical puzzles. The goal of our current proposal is to automatically discover temporal relations from clinical free text and structured EHR data and create an aggregated patient-level timeline.
Filed on October 17, 2016.
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Guergana Savova filed other conflict of interest disclosures with the NIH:
| Name | Institution | Type | Company | Disclosed Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guergana Savova | Boston Children's Hospital | Conflict of Interest | Wired Informatics, LLC | $0 - $4,999 |
| Guergana Savova | University of Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh | Conflict of Interest | Wired Informatics, LLC | Value cannot be readily determined |
| Guergana Savova | Boston Children's Hospital | Conflict of Interest | Wired Informatics, LLC | Value cannot be readily determined |
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