CODE LAB

The Clinical and Observational Data Excellence (CODE) Lab was founded and is directed by Associate Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology and Biostatistics Dr. William Brown III. At CODE Lab our mission is to help researchers and healthcare workers contribute to creating a Learning Health System by leveraging New Media (i.e., mHealth, social media) and Biomedical Informatics (i.e., semantic harmonization, natural language processing, machine learning, data visualization) to collect data in real-time, improve treatment and adherence, and integrate gathered data among and between clinical systems and other research datasets.​... Our specific aims are to (Aim 1) develop and validate a novel, automated linguistic complexity profile (LCP) to assess secure message content generated by DM2 patients and their providers via patient portals. We will employ natural language processing (NLP) to develop and validate the LCP, based on secure messages and data from >200,000 DM2 patients. The LCP will..