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First published April 24, 2008 as JAMIA PrePrint; doi:10.1197/jamia.M2781
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 2008;15(5):708
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Submitted on March 4, 2008
Accepted on March 6, 2008

No Structure Before Its Time

Isaac Kohane MD, PhD1* and Özlem Uzuner PhD2

Affiliation of the authors: 1 Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA ; 2 University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.

Dr. Schleyer asks a number of important questions. These might be summarized as asking why, as a discipline, are we not focusing on improving the acquisition of structured data rather than going through computational acrobatics to extract codified representation from narrative text? Should we not be focusing our efforts to ensure a fully-structured record?






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