Speaker: Kelsey Chalmers, University of Sydney Seminar Date: Tuesday August 15 12:00pm Brief abstract: Decisions regarding health care funding and how to get value for our health care dollars are highly political. In this lecture, I will discuss the motivation and evidence for Australia’s Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) Review, how it’s been established, and stakeholders’ involvement and reaction to
Speaker: Sarvenaz Karimi, Data61 Seminar Date: Tuesday July 4 12:00pm Brief abstract: A large portion of healthcare related data contains text, such as progress notes, reports of adverse drug reactions, clinical biomedical literature, and death certificates. Biomedical text mining has been focusing on extracting information from these resources and transforming them to actionable inference. In this talk, two projects will be covered: (1) information extraction from adverse drug reaction