Detection and presentation of bleeding events in the electronic health record
Bleeding and venous thromboembolism are frequent complications with hospitalised patients. Clinicians should be able to easily identify high risk cases when assessing risk of bleeding prior to surgery, preventive treatment for blood clots etc.
Project period
Start: April 2021
End: March 2022
Aim
The goal in this project is to develop AI algorithms based on Natural Language Processing to find bleeding episodes reported in the patients' electronic health records. It will be developed based on extraction of relevant text from more than 300,000 electronic health records (unstructured data). When implemented, the algorithm can extract information on bleeding episodes from the patient's medical record and the results will be reported to the medical doctor and patient in an easily understandable and relevant way.
RESULTS
The first part of the project proved that an artificial neural network can detect 98% of the bleeding episodes, and the next part of the project will develop a viable solution which can become part of daily clinical practice. The solution should be able to find indications of bleeding episodes, present a summary for the clinician, and suggest appropriate measures.
Participants
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, OUH
- Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, SDU
This project is a subproject of the project The Intelligent Health Record, which includes several other subprojects on the use of AI to find information in the electronic health record.
Read more about the project The Intelligent Health Record at ipj.nu (website only available in Danish).

Pernille Just Vinholt
Physician, Associate Professor
Department of Clinical Biochemistry
(+45) 29 64 86 94 pernille.vinholt@rsyd.dk

Thiusius Rajeeth Savarimuthu
Professor
Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute
(+45) 24 40 95 45 trs@mmmi.sdu.dk