Selected Publications
SPIN Common Architecture
A Self Scaling, Distributed Architecture for Public Health, Research, and
Clinical Care. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2007 Apr 25; PMID: 17460129
Shared Pathology Informatics Network
- Patel AA GD, Seligson D, Hattab EM, Balis UJ, Ulbright TM, Kohane IS, Berman JJ, Gilbertson JR, Dry S, Schirripa O, Yu H, Becich MJ, Parwani AV, and the Shared Pathology Informatics Network. Availability and Quality of Paraffin Blocks Identified by the Shared Pathology Informatics Network (SPIN): A Multi-institutional Study. BMC Cancer. 2006.
- Drake TA BJ, Marchevsky A, Kohane IS, Fletcher C, Chueh H, et all. A System For Sharing Routine Surgical Pathology Specimens Across Institutions: The Shared Pathology Informatics Network (SPIN). Manuscript submitted. 2006.
DeIdentification
- Beckwith BA, Mahaadevan R, Balis UJ, Kuo F. Development and evaluation of an open source software tool for deidentification of pathology reports. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2006;6:12.
- Thomas SM, Mamlin B, Schadow G, McDonald C. A successful technique for removing names in pathology reports using an augmented search and replace method. Proc AMIA Symp. 2002:777-81.
Autocoding
- Berman JJ. Automatic extraction of candidate nomenclature terms using the doublet method. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2005.
- Berman JJ. Pathology data integration with eXtensible Markup Language. Hum Pathol. 2005 Feb;36(2):139-45.
Query Tools
- Holzbach AM CH, Porter AJ, Kohane IS, Berkowicz D. . A query engine for distributed medical databases. Medinfo. 2004:1519.
- McDonald CJ, Dexter P, Schadow G, Chueh HC, Abernathy G, Hook J, et al. SPIN query tools for de-identified research on a humongous database. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2005:515-9.
