The ENACT network is acting on housing instability and the unhoused using the open health natural language processing toolkit

The ENACT network is acting on housing instability and the unhoused using the open health natural language processing toolkit

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Housing is an environmental social determinant of health that is linked to mortality and clinical outcomes.We developed a lexicon of housing-related concepts and rule-based natural language processing methods for identifying these housing-related concepts within clinical text.We piloted our read more methods on several test cohorts: a synthetic cohort generated by ChatGPT for initial infrastructure testing, a cohort with substance use disorders (SUD), and a cohort diagnosed with problems related to housing and economic circumstances (HEC).Our methods successfully identified housing concepts in our ChatGPT notes (recall = 1.

0, precision = 1.0), our SUD population (recall = 0.9798, precision = 0.9898), and our HEC population (recall = whole wheat phyllo dough N/A, precision = 0.

9160).