Integrated Surgical Information System Injury Data Analyzer (ISIS-IDA)

Abstract

The Integrated Surgical Information System Injury Data Analyzer is a database and data analysis system. This system follows some data warehousing approach where it gets its data from an external database. It makes use of natural language processing in order to mine data from fields which have entries in narrative and non-standard form. It utilizes a look-up identifier table where parsed texts are matched against keywords which contain entries in a standard form. Matching of keywords is implemented through the use of full-text search in mySQL. Extracted data are then ''cleansed" and changed into a standard format. ISIS-IDA also includes query interfaces and analysis visualization tools for informative and research purposes. It allows the users to choose different data or combination of data they wish to view. Reports on distribution of injury by demography and frequency of injury cases are generated through the query interface. These reports can be represented by graphs or tables. Registered users which are composed of doctors are allowed to upload and post articles and bulletins which may be of contribution to the awareness in injury.