Enhancing Maternal Health Surveillance in the United States Through Natural Language Processing.

Maternal health outcomes are essential indicators of overall health care quality and societal well-being. However, in the United States, the maternal health surveillance is often inaccurate, restricting the clinical utility of the data gathered. The limits imposed by these inaccuracies restrict time...

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Publicado en:American Journal of Perinatology Vol. 43; no. 10; pp. 1414 - 1419
Autores principales: Horgan, Rebecca, Kawakita, Tetsuya, Saade, George
Formato: Journal Article
Publicado: Thieme Medical Publishing Inc. Jul2026
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          Horgan, Rebecca
          Kawakita, Tetsuya
          Saade, George
        affil: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Macon and Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, United States
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          Women's Health In Pregnancy
          Natural Language Processing
          Population Surveillance
          Electronic Health Records
          Machine Learning
          Pregnancy
          Female
          United States
          Data Analysis
          Linguistics
          Social Determinants of Health
          Pregnancy-Induced Hypertension Complications
          Resource Allocation
          Information Retrieval
          Sensitivity and Specificity
          Reproducibility of Results
          Random Forest
          Venous Thromboembolism
          Phenotype
          Pregnancy Complications Prevention and Control
          Predictive Validity
          Prediction Models
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      ab: Maternal health outcomes are essential indicators of overall health care quality and societal well-being. However, in the United States, the maternal health surveillance is often inaccurate, restricting the clinical utility of the data gathered. The limits imposed by these inaccuracies restrict timely policy responses and hinder effective innovations, despite the increasing availability of electronic health records. This paper explores the potential use of natural language processing in improving maternal health surveillance. By combining rule-based linguistic processing with machine learning, natural language processing can transform narrative text into structured, analyzable data, allowing it to be used for predictive purposes, as well as the development of real-time public health surveillance systems. Key Points: Maternal health surveillance is often inaccurate, restricting the clinical utility of the data. Natural language processing can extract key insights from unstructured clinical notes. Artificial intelligence-driven surveillance in obstetrics may improve data accuracy and timeliness. Ethical use of natural language processing needs to ensure privacy, bias control, and validation.
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