Carol Friedman is a scientist and biomedical informatician. She is among the pioneers the use of expert systems in medical language processing and the explicit medical concept representation underpinning the use of

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ing underpinning

electronic medical records An electronic health record (EHR) is the systematized collection of patient and population electronically stored health information in a digital format. These records can be shared across different health care settings. Records are shared throu ...

Life

Before her doctoral degree, working under the direction of

Naomi Sager Naomi Sager (born 1927) is an American computational linguistics research scientist. She is a former research professor at New York University, now retired. She is a pioneer in the development of natural language processing for computers. Earl ...

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, she also contributed to the development of second generation medical language processing systems. After her doctoral degree in computer science (natural language processing) under Dr. Ralph Grishman at the Courant Institute of Mathematics at New York University, she has developed annotative clinical information systems that have been integrated in the

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, and the

Columbia University Medical Center NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center (NYP/CUIMC), also known as the Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC), is an academic medical center and the largest campus of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. It includes C ...

. She is recognized for her development, translation to clinical practice and evaluation of the MedLEE medical language processing system. MedLEE is in daily use for clinical decision support at NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital. She adapted and evaluated the MedLEE system to build biomolecular and genotype-phenotype networks (GENIES and BioMedLEE respectively). MedLEE and GENIES exemplify the translation to practice of the sub-language theory proposed by

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that Friedman pursued. In summary, she has been demonstrating the value of natural language processing for a broad range of clinical and biomedical applications that include decision support, automated encoding, vocabulary development, sub-language grammar applied to biomedicine, clinical research, outcomes analysis, error detection, and genomics research. Friedman is Professor of Biomedical Informatics at

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

. Friedman was a member of the Board of Regents of the

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from 2007 to 2011, and has published over 150 articles.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Friedman, Carol Living people United States National Library of Medicine Health informaticians New York University alumni Columbia University faculty Columbia Medical School faculty Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) City College of New York alumni Members of the National Academy of Medicine Natural language processing researchers Data miners