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<b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Announcement of Data Release and Call for Participation</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><br>
<b>2014 i2b2/UTHealth Shared-Tasks and Workshop<br>
on Challenges in Natural Language Processing for Clinical Data</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Tentative Timeline<br>
Training Data Release: 1 May, 2014 ** TODAY **<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="style1" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:11.25pt"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">****Data are now released.****</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="style1" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:11.25pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Test Data Release: 1 July, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="style1" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:11.25pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">System Outputs Due: 3 July, 2014<br>
Paper Submission: 1 August, 2014<br>
Workshop: TBA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="style1" style="line-height:11.25pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">The 2014 i2b2/UTHealth challenge consists of two traditional NLP tracks:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Track 1: De-identification:</span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> Removing protected
health information (PHI) is a critical step in making medical records accessible to more people, yet it is a very difficult and nuanced task. This track addresses the problem of de-identifying medical records over a new set of over 1300 patient records, with
surrogate PHI for participants to identify.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Track 2: Identifying risk factors for heart disease over time:</span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> Medical
records for diabetic patients contain information about heart disease risk factors such as high blood pressure and cholesterol levels, obesity, smoking status, etc. This track aims to identify the information that is medically relevant to identifying heart
disease risk, and track their progression over sets of longitudinal patient records.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="style1" style="line-height:11.25pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">The data for this task is provided by Partners HealthCare. All records have been fully de-identified and manually annotated for risk
factors related to diabetes and heart disease risk factors.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="style1" style="line-height:11.25pt"><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Data for the challenge is released under a Rules of Conduct and Data Use Agreement. Obtaining the data requires completing a <a href="https://i2b2.org/NLP/HeartDisease/Register.php"><span style="color:#336699">registration</span></a>.</span></em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="style1" style="line-height:11.25pt"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Organizing Committee:</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Ozlem Uzuner, co-chair,</span></i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">SUNY at Albany<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Amber Stubbs, co-chair,</span></i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Hua Xu, co-chair,</span></i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">MITRE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Dina Demner Fushman,</span></i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Bill Hersh,</span></i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">MITRE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Stanley Shaw,</span></i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Meliha Yetisgen,</span></i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="style1" style="line-height:11.25pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Please see the <a href="https://i2b2.org/NLP/HeartDisease/Announcements.php"><span style="color:#336699">announcements</span></a> for
more information. Questions on the challenge can be addressed to Ozlem Uzuner, <a href="mailto:i2b2nlp@albany.edu"><span style="color:#336699">i2b2nlp@albany.edu</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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