An intelligent listening framework for capturing encounter notes from a doctor-patient dialog (2009)
Klann, Jeffrey G, Szolovits, Peter
Abstract Background Capturing accurate and machine-interpretable primary data from clinical encounters is a challenging task, yet critical to the integrity of the practice of medicine. We explore the...
Refereed papers Implementing electronic medical record systems in developing countries (2009)
Hamish Sf, Fraser Mbchb Msc, Paul Biondich, Md Ms, Deshen Moodley Msc, ...
The developing world faces a series of health crises including HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis that threaten the lives of millions of people. Lack of infrastructure and trained, experienced staff are...
§ Corresponding authors (2008)
Ishna Neamatullah, Margaret Douglass, Andrew Reisner, Mauricio Villarroel, William Long, ...
Background Text-based patient medical records are a vital resource in medical research. In order to preserve patient confidentiality, however, the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability...
Celi, Leo, Hinske, L Christian, Alterovitz, Gil, Szolovits, Peter
Abstract Introduction The goal of personalised medicine in the intensive care unit (ICU) is to predict which diagnostic tests, monitoring interventions and treatments translate to improved outcomes...
Automated de-identification of free-text medical records (2008)
Neamatullah, Ishna, Douglass, Margaret M, Lehman, Li-wei H, Reisner, Andrew, Villarroel, Mauricio, Long, William J, ...
Abstract Background Text-based patient medical records are a vital resource in medical research. In order to preserve patient confidentiality, however, the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and...
Jon Doyle, Isaac Kohane, William Long, Peter Szolovits
Abstract: This report describes the aims, functions, and organization of the MAITA system for knowledge-based construction, adaptation, and control of networks of monitoring processes. DRAFT
Jon Doyle, Isaac Kohane, William Long, Peter Szolovits
Abstract: This report describes the aims, functions, and organization of the MAITA system for knowledge-based construction, adaptation, and control of networks of monitoring processes.
Against Simple Universal Health-Care Identifiers (2007)
This paper was published as P. Szolovits and I. Kohane. Against Universal Health-care Identifiers. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 1:316--319, 1994. 2 characteristics [4,5]....
3.1 Role I: A KR is a Surrogate (2007)
Randall Davis, Howard Shrobe, Peter Szolovits
Although knowledge representation is one of the central and in some ways most familiar concepts in AI, the most fundamental question about it---What is it?---has rarely been answered directly....
Govinda Shrestha, Hamish Fraser, Ken Keniston, Libby Levison, Peter Szolovits
My deep appreciation and sincere thanks go to Michael Dertouzos for his support and inspiration in this exploratory work. I would like to express my thanks and appreciation to my colleagues and...
Lik Mui, Mojdeh Mohtashemi, Cheewee Ang, Peter Szolovits, Ari Halberstadt
For distributed systems at large and e-commerce systems in particular, ratings play an increasingly important role. Ratings confer reputation measures about sources. This paper reports our...
Certified by.......................................................... (2007)
Peter Szolovits, Arthur C. Smith, Waikit Koh, Waikit Koh
The Internet has brought a new meaning to the term communities. Geography is no longer a barrier to international communications. However, the paradigm of meeting new interesting people remains...
Lifetime Patient-Centered Health Information Systems.............................. 4 (2007)
Guardian Angel, Peter Szolovits, Jon Doyle, Jon Doyle, William J. Long, William J. Long, ...
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[IT and the Developing World Series l] (2007)
Hamish Fraser, Ken Keniston, Libby Levison, Peter Szolovits
My deep appreciation and sincere thanks go to Michael Dertouzos for his support and inspiration in this exploratory work. I would like to express my thanks and appreciation to my colleagues and ¦...
Lifetime Patient-Centered Health Information Systems..............................4 (2007)
Guardian Angel, Peter Szolovits, Jon Doyle, Jon Doyle, William J. Long, William J. Long, ...
Lifetime Patient-Centered Health Information Systems.............................. 4 (2007)
Guardian Angel, Peter Szolovits, Jon Doyle, Jon Doyle, William J. Long, William J. Long, ...
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Automated de-identification of free-text medical records (2007)
Ishna Neamatullah, Margaret M Douglass, Andrew Reisner, Mauricio Villarroel, William J Long, ...
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License
Certified by............................................................................... (2006)
Hooman Katirai, Peter Szolovits, Hooman Katirai
A Theory and Toolkit for the Mathematics of Privacy:
Patients Using Survival Models (2006)
Caleb W. Hug, Caleb W. Hug, Peter Szolovits, Caleb W. Hug
Using artificial intelligence to assist physicians in patient care has received sustained interest over the past several decades. Recently, with automated systems at most bedsides, the amount of...
The Architecture of MAITA: A Tool for Monitoring, Analysis, and Interpretation (2004)
Jon, Doyle, Kohane, Isaac, Long, William, Szolovits, Peter
This report describes the aims, functions, and organization of the MAITAsystem for knowledge-based construction, adaptation, and control of networks of monitoringprocesses.
The Architecture of MAITA: A Tool for Monitoring, Analysis, and Interpretation (2004)
Jon, Doyle, Kohane, Isaac, Long, William, Szolovits, Peter
This report describes the aims, functions, and organization of the MAITAsystem for knowledge-based construction, adaptation, and control of networks of monitoringprocesses.
High-Performance Knowledge Base Support for Monitoring, Analysis, and Interpretation Tasks (2003)
The Monitoring, Analysis, and Interpretation Tool Arsenal (MAITA) is a knowledge-based tool that helps reduce time and effort of constructing a monitoring system at the start and of modifying an...
6.001 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Fall 2002 (2002)
Grimson, Eric, Lozano-Perez,Tomas, Szolovits, Peter, Boning, Duane
Control of complexity in large programming systems. Building abstractions: computational processes; higher-order procedures; compound data; and data abstractions. Controlling interactions: generic...
6.001 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Fall 2002 (2002)
Grimson, Eric, Lozano-Perez,Tomas, Szolovits, Peter, Boning, Duane
Control of complexity in large programming systems. Building abstractions: computational processes; higher-order procedures; compound data; and data abstractions. Controlling interactions: generic...
An Overview of OWL, A Language for Knowledge Representation. (2002)
Szolovits,Peter, Hawkinson,Lowell B., Martin,William A.
The motivation and overall organization of the OWL language for knowledge representation is described. OWL consists of a memory of concepts in terms of which all English phrases and all knowledge of...
Szolovits,Peter, Martin,William A.
Brand X is a simple representation language implemented as a pure extension of LISP. Brand X provides the following additional facilities over LISP: Unique and canonical structures, property lists...
Jon Doyle, Howard Shrobe, Peter Szolovits
c fl Copyright 2000 by the authors Abstract: The Intrusion Detection (ID) community has developed numerous proposals for languages with which to describe signatures of attacks on computers and...
Diagnostic Process Monitoring with Temporally Uncertain Models (2002)
Steven M. Bull, Peter Szolovits, Arthur C. Smith, Steven M. Bull
at the
Event recognition beyond signature and anomaly (2001)
Isaac Kohane, Howard Shrobe, Peter Szolovits, Jon Doyle, Jon Doyle, William Long, ...
Abstract — Notions of signature and anomaly have formed the basis of useful methods in cyber defense, but even in combination provide only weak evidence for recognizing many events of interest. One...
Agile monitoring for cyber defense (2001)
Jon Doyle, Isaac Kohane, William Long, Howard Shrobe, Peter Szolovits
The Monitoring, Analysis, and Interpretation Tool Arsenal (MAITA) seeks to support rapid construction and empirical reconfiguration of cyber defense monitoring systems inside the opponent decision...
Event recognition beyond signature and anomaly (2001)
Jon Doyle, Isaac Kohane, William Long, Howard Shrobe, Peter Szolovits
Abstract | Notions of signature and anomaly have formed the basis of useful methods in cyber defense, but even in combination provide only weak evidence for recognizing many events of interest. One...
Event recognition beyond signature and anomaly (2001)
Jon Doyle, Isaac Kohane, William Long, Howard Shrobe, Peter Szolovits
Abstract — Notions of signature and anomaly have formed the basis of useful methods in cyber defense, but even in combination provide only weak evidence for recognizing many events of interest. One...
The Architecture of MAITA - A Tool For Monitoring, Analysis, and Interpretation (1999)
Jon Doyle, Isaac Kohane, William Long, Peter Szolovits
: This report describes the aims, functions, and organization of the MAITA system for knowledge-based construction, adaptation, and control of networks of monitoring processes. DRAFT Version of...
Specialized Languages: An Applications Methodology, (1998)
Dostert,Bozena Henisz, Thompson,Frederick B., Bigelow,Richard Henry, Greenfeld,Norton Robert, Szolovits,Peter
Information processing professionals, in their quest to assist the problem-solving activities of computer users, have invented a variety of specialized systems which facilitate work in particular...
Adaptive Knowledge-Based Monitoring for Information Assurance (1998)
Doyle, Jon, Kohane, Isaac, Long, William J., Szolovits, Peter
This is the main text of a proposal submitted on October 30, 1998 to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in response to BAA #98-34 "Information Assurance (IA) of the Next Generation...
The Childrens ’ Hospital (Boston) (1996)
Jon Doyle, Isaac Kohane, William Long, Peter Szolovits
Contents A Abstract 2 B Innovative claims 3 C Technical rationale 5
Uncertainty and Decisions in Medical Informatics (1995)
ion in Models The full probabilistic and decision analytic framework for reasoning about uncertainty is very attractive and has a long history of advocacy and analysis (e.g., [17,30]). Nevertheless,...
I Kohane: Against simple universal health-care identifiers (1994)
Medical records are becoming fully computerized; technical, administrative and economic forces are pushing toward standardization on a single identifier, such as the Social Security Number (SSN) to...
Global Conditioning for Probabilistic Inference in Belief Networks (1994)
Ross Shachter, Stig K. Andersen, Peter Szolovits
In this paper we propose a new approach to probabilistic inference on belief networks, global conditioning, which is a simple generalization of Pearl's (1986b) method of loopcutset conditioning....
What is a knowledge representation (1993)
All Davis, Howard Shrobe, Peter Szolovits
■ Although knowledge representation is one of the central and, in some ways, most familiar concepts in AI, the most fundamental question about it—What is it?—has rarely been answered directly....
What is a knowledge representation (1993)
All Davis, Howard Shrobe, Peter Szolovits
■ Although knowledge representation is one of the central and, in some ways, most familiar concepts in AI, the most fundamental question about it—What is it?—has rarely been answered directly....
What is a knowledge representation (1993)
All Davis, Howard Shrobe, Peter Szolovits
■ Although knowledge representation is one of the central and, in some ways, most familiar concepts in AI, the most fundamental question about it—What is it?—has rarely been answered directly....
Knowledge-based systems (1991)
Embedding knowledge is a popular and effective means of increasing the power of sophisticated computer applications. While the intellectual roots of this method go back to the late 1960's, the...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--California Institute of Technology, 1975.
A WWW Implementation of National Recommendations for Protecting Electronic Health Information
Halamka, John D., Szolovits, Peter, Rind, David, Safran, Charles
In March of 1997, the National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academy of Sciences issued the report, “For the Record: Protecting Electronic Health Information.” Concluding that the...
Adding a Medical Lexicon to an English Parser
We present a heuristic method to map lexical (syntactic) information from one lexicon to another, and apply the technique to augment the lexicon of the Link Grammar Parser with an enormous medical...
A WWW Implementation of National Recommendations for Protecting Electronic Health Information
Halamka, John D., Szolovits, Peter, Rind, David, Safran, Charles
In March of 1997, the National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academy of Sciences issued the report, “For the Record: Protecting Electronic Health Information.” Concluding that the...
Adding a Medical Lexicon to an English Parser
We present a heuristic method to map lexical (syntactic) information from one lexicon to another, and apply the technique to augment the lexicon of the Link Grammar Parser with an enormous medical...
Syntactically-Informed Semantic Category Recognizer for Discharge Summaries
Sibanda, Tawanda, He, Tian, Szolovits, Peter, Uzuner, Ozlem
Semantic category recognition (SCR) contributes to document understanding. Most approaches to SCR fail to make use of syntax. We hypothesize that syntax, if represented appropriately, can improve...
Copy Fees and Patients’ Rights to Obtain a Copy of Their Medical Records: From Law to Reality
Fioriglio, Gianluigi, Szolovits, Peter
Patients have a legal right under HIPAA to a copy of their medical records. Personal life-long medical records rely on patients’ ability to exercise this right inexpensively and in a timely manner....
Evaluating the State-of-the-Art in Automatic De-identification
Uzuner, Özlem, Luo, Yuan, Szolovits, Peter
To facilitate and survey studies in automatic de-identification, as a part of the i2b2 (Informatics for Integrating Biology to the Bedside) project, authors organized a Natural Language Processing...
Automated de-identification of free-text medical records
Neamatullah, Ishna, Douglass, Margaret M, Lehman, Li-wei H, Reisner, Andrew, Villarroel, Mauricio, Long, William J, ...
A Model for Distributed Vocabulary Translation
Cimino, Christopher, Nhan, Ngo T., Schindler, Jiri, Szolovits, Peter, Kohane, Isaac
Confidentiality of Medical Records in the W3-EMRS Project
Rind, David M., Kohane, Isaac S., Szolovits, Peter, Safran, Charles, Chueh, Henry C., Barnett, G. Octo
Informatics Support for the Management of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis in Peru and Russia
Fraser, Hamish, Levison, Libby, Nikiforov, Michael, Jazayeri, Darius, Day, Candy, Szolovits, Peter, ...
Appropriate Technology for Telemedicine in Developing Countries
Fraser, Hamish S. F., Jazayeri, Darius, Szolovits, Peter, McGrath, St John D
Ohno-Machado, Lucila, Boxwala, Aziz, Fraser, Hamish, Greenes, Robert, Kohane, Isaac, Marin, Heimar, ...
Representing Medical Knowledge in a Terminological Language is Difficult1
Haimowits, Ira J., Patil, Ramesh S., Szolovits, Peter
We report on an experiment to use a modern knowledge representation language, NIKL, to express the knowledge of a sophisticated medical reasoning program, ABEL. We are attempting to put the...