medExtractR: A targeted, customizable approach to medication extraction from electronic health records.

Weeks HL**, Beck C*, McNeer E*, Williams ML**, Bejan CA, Denny JC, Choi L*. medExtractR: A targeted, customizable approach to medication extraction from electronic health records. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA. 2020 Mar 1;27(27). 407-418. PMID: 31943012 [PubMed] PMCID: PMC7025369

Abstract

We developed medExtractR, a natural language processing system to extract medication information from clinical notes. Using a targeted approach, medExtractR focuses on individual drugs to facilitate creation of medication-specific research datasets from electronic health records.