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24043
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

William R. Hersh is affiliated with Oregon Health & Science University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Computer Science, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine.

Their notable areas of study include Molecular Biology, Artificial Intelligence, Health Information Management, Health Informatics, and Information Systems. Key topics within their research portfolio cover Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies, Topic Modeling, Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education, Electronic Health Records Systems, Biomedical and Engineering Education, Health Sciences Research and Education, and Porphyrin Metabolism and Disorders.

Among their recent papers are the following:

  • TREC-COVID: rationale and structure of an information retrieval shared task for COVID-19, 2020, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
  • TREC-COVID, 2020, ACM SIGIR Forum
  • Recommendations of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) on Education in Biomedical and Health Informatics: Second Revision, 2022, International Journal of Medical Informatics
  • Detecting rare diseases in electronic health records using machine learning and knowledge engineering: Case study of acute hepatic porphyria, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • TREC-COVID: Constructing a Pandemic Information Retrieval Test Collection, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)

William R. Hersh frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Steven Bedrick, Kirk Roberts, Dina Demner-Fushman, Ian Soboroff, and Aaron Cohen.

Their work is often published in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
  • Yearbook of Medical Informatics
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • ACM SIGIR Forum

William R. Hersh has also contributed to book publications, including the title Information Retrieval: A Biomedical and Health Perspective published by Health Informatics in 2020.

In recognition of their contributions, they have received the 2018 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) award.

Best Publications

  • OHSUMED: an interactive retrieval evaluation and new large test collection for research

    William Hersh;Chris Buckley;T. J. Leone;David Hickam

  • A survey of current work in biomedical text mining

    Aaron M. Cohen;William R. Hersh

  • Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval

    William Hersh;Jamie Callan;Yoelle Maarek;Mark Sanderson

  • Recommendations of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) on Education in Biomedical and Health Informatics - First Revision

    J. Mantas;E. Ammenwerth;G. Demiris;A. Hasman

  • Caveats for the use of operational electronic health record data in comparative effectiveness research.

    William R. Hersh;Mark G. Weiner;Peter J. Embi;Judith R. Logan

  • Information Retrieval: A Health and Biomedical Perspective

    William R. Hersh

  • TREC 2006 genomics track overview

    William R. Hersh;Aaron M. Cohen;Phoebe M. Roberts;Hari Krishna Rekapalli

  • TREC Genomics Track Overview

    William R. Hersh;Ravi Teja Bhupatiraju

  • Recommendations of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) on Education in Biomedical and Health Informatics

    John Mantas;Elske Ammenwerth;George Demiris;Arie Hasman

  • Reducing workload in systematic review preparation using automated citation classification.

    Aaron M. Cohen;William R. Hersh;K. Peterson;Po-Yin Yen

  • Computerized Physician Order Entry in U.S. Hospitals: Results of a 2002 Survey

    Joan S. Ash;Paul N. Gorman;Veena Seshadri;William R. Hersh

  • Barriers and drivers of health information technology use for the elderly, chronically ill, and underserved

    Holly Jimison;Paul Gorman;Susan Woods;Peggy Nygren

  • A categorization and analysis of the criticisms of Evidence-Based Medicine

    Aaron Michael Cohen;P.Zoë Stavri;William R. Hersh

  • Medical informatics: improving health care through information.

    William R. Hersh

  • How Well Do Physicians Use Electronic Information Retrieval Systems?: A Framework for Investigation and Systematic Review

    William R. Hersh;David H. Hickam;David H. Hickam

  • Clinical outcomes resulting from telemedicine interventions: a systematic review

    William R. Hersh;Mark Helfand;James Wallace;Dale Kraemer

  • A stimulus to define informatics and health information technology.

    William R. Hersh

  • TREC 2004 Genomics Track Overview

    William R. Hersh;Ravi Teja Bhuptiraju;Laura Ross;Phoebe Johnson

  • Health Care Information Technology Progress and Barriers

    William Hersh

  • The CLEF 2005 cross–language image retrieval track

    Paul Clough;Henning Müller;Thomas Deselaers;Michael Grubinger

  • TREC 2007 genomics track overview

    William R. Hersh;Aaron M. Cohen;Lynn Ruslen;Phoebe M. Roberts

Frequent Co-Authors

Henning Müller
Henning Müller University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland
Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer
Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer Harvard University
Ellen M. Voorhees
Ellen M. Voorhees National Institute of Standards and Technology
Dina Demner-Fushman
Dina Demner-Fushman National Institutes of Health
Sijia Liu
Sijia Liu Michigan State University
Hongfang Liu
Hongfang Liu The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Elmer V. Bernstam
Elmer V. Bernstam The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Paul Over
Paul Over National Institute of Standards and Technology
Andrew Turpin
Andrew Turpin University of Melbourne
Thomas Deselaers
Thomas Deselaers Apple (United States)

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