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IDEA4RC launches its Community of Interest starting from patients
Since the inception of IDEA4RC, the involvement of a large and diverse group of stakeholders has been deemed crucial for the success of the project. Values and expectations of people who can benefit from the IDEA4RC data ecosystem have been considered through focus groups and interviews, but now, as the platform begins to take shape,…
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Impact of HL7 FHIR in digital healthcare ecosystems for chronic disease management
Reviewing the scientific and gray English literature from 2017 to 2023, the authors ended up with 93 scientific papers on the employment of HL7 FHIR for chronic disease management and 35 HL7 FHIR Implementation Guidelines on the same topic. They concerned primarily cancer (45%) cardiovascular diseases (more than 15%) and diabetes (almost 15%). Articles come…
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IDEA4RC at EUSPRI 2024
Claudia Egher, researcher at Utrecht University, participated in the annual conference of the European forum for Studies on Policies for Research and Innovation (EUSPRI), hosted by the University of Twente. This year focus was “Governing Technology, Research, and Innovation for Better Worlds”. Egher presented the work done so far within the IDEA4RC project in collaboration…
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An open-source multilingual LLM for the medical domain
I. García-Ferrero, et al, “MedMT5: An Open-Source Multilingual Text-to-Text LLM for the Medical Domain”, Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024). Full text available here. Abstract Research on language technology for the development of medical applications is currently a hot topic in Natural Language Understanding and…
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IDEA4RC at SPORL-CCP
On 27 April 2024, Pablo Parente Arias will present IDEA4RC at the 71th National Congress of the Portuguese Society of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery (SPORL-CCP).
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Latest highlights in medical NLP across multiple languages
This survey aims to provide an overview of the current state of biomedical and clinical Natural Language Processing research and practice in Languages other than English.
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IDEA4RC at RARE2023
IDEA4RC will be presented in the poster session of the The 5th International Conference on Rare Diseases, which will be held in Budapest on 30 November and 1 December 2023.
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IDEA4RC at MEDICON’23
Laura López Pérez, biomedical engineer at the Polytechnic University of Madrid in the LifeSTech group, presented IDEA4RC on Friday 15 September during the 2023 Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering (MEDICON’23). This year the conference has been organized together with the International Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering in Bosnia and Herzegovina (CMBEBIH). The…
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IDEA4RC at IFHNOS 2023
The Internatioanl Federation of Head and Neck Oncologic Societies held its 7th World Congress (IFHNOS 2023) from 21 to 25 June 2023 in Rome. Three members of IDEA4RC took part in it: Annalisa Trama, cancer epidemiologist at Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori and project coordinator, Lisa Licitra, medical oncologist specialized in head and neck cancers at…
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IDEA4RC at the workshop on rare diseases, global health and social sciences
On 11 May 2023, Claudia Egher, social scientist at the University of Utrecht, presented the work she is conducting within IDEA4RC together with Susan van Hees and Wouter Boon at the workshop ‘Rare Diseases, Global Health, and Social Sciences: Counterbalancing Biomedical Reductionism’ organized by the Association for Anthropology and Medicine (AGEM). The workshop ‘Rare Diseases,…
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