This session will feature our first
Keynote Speaker, Honfang Liu, from the Mayo Clinic.Keynote presentation title:
Open Health Natural Language Processing (OHNLP) Collaborative - An open science journey towards real-world implementation of clinical NLPAbstractThe goal of the Open Health Natural Language Processing (OHNLP) Collaborative is to promote past and current open-source clinical NLP development efforts, encourage participation in advancing future efforts, and focus on an ethical artificial intelligence (AI) framework for dissemination and implementation. In this talk, I will briefly discuss clinical NLP in general, overview some of the systems and applications in clinical NLP, discuss past and ongoing achievements in OHNLP, and provide perspectives of the future directions in clinical NLP research and practice.
Hongfang Liu is professor at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. She has devoted her research career to leveraging data science, AI, and informatics approaches to support clinical and translational science research. This included advances in natural language processing, algorithm development, and processes of their adoption at the point of care. She is a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and a leader of the Natural Language Processing Working Group and the American Medical Informatics Association.
