Figure 2
From: Extracting research-quality phenotypes from electronic health records to support precision medicine
EHR data structure and accurate phenotyping. (a) Electronic health record (EHR) data can be structured or unstructured. Structured data are easy to retrieve whereas unstructured data require additional tools to be used for phenotyping, such as natural language processing (NLP). (b) Accurate phenotyping often requires extracting information from billing codes, prescriptions, laboratory tests and clinical notes. This information can be either structured or unstructured. ICD-9, International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision.