The great challenge of using electronic medical data in the age of artificial intelligence
November 2023.- Hercules Dalianis, professor of Computer Science and Systems at Stockholm University, Sweden, visited Chile as part of the Fondecyt project "Creation of linguistic and computational resources for clinical language in Spanish" led by Jocelyn Dunstan Escudero, an academic at the DCC and IMC UC.
"Privacy is key when working with data in the health sector. Virtually all the information we collect belongs to patients who are vulnerable, for example, to different types of discrimination," says IMFD researcher Jocelyn Dunstan Escudero. One of the major challenges when working with medical data is the potential for misuse of this data to harm those who provide it: privacy and security are among the main challenges for those seeking to work with large volumes of this data.
Hércules Dalianis has experience in clinical data anonymization. During the event, held in the Sala Colorada at the Catholic University Extension Center, he gave a live demonstration of his clinical text recognition application and explained the guidelines for anonymizing medical data that his teams have used, which allows databases to be used while guaranteeing the privacy of the data that People to medical teams.
The work "Creation of linguistic and computational resources for clinical language in Spanish" seeks, through the use of different data science techniques, to optimize resources in order to achieve the major goal of reducing waiting lists for public health services.
"In this project, we created the first annotated corpus in Chile, which is currently available and open to the scientific community. One of the interesting things to note is that the construction of this corpus was made possible thanks to the Transparency Law, which allowed the team of researchers toobtain eleven million interconsultations, which were requested individually from each of the 29 health services that exist in the country's 15 regions, "said the researcher during the event.
This project was funded by the Chilean government through Fondecyt, with support from the Ministry of Health, the Chilean Safety Association, the Mathematical Modeling Center at the University of Chile (CMM), and the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data IMFD).
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