3 Topic Commentaries

Menopause may be underdocumented in EHRs

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  Audrey Hendricks, PhD

  Biomedical Informatics/Bioinformatics

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  University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

  Menopause has enormous implications for women’s health, but if we don’t consistently capture when menopause occurs and other important reproductive health information, we limit our ability to understand how this transition affects disease risk and health outcomes.

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  Yulin Hswen, ScD, MPH

  Epidemiology and Biostatistics; AI in Public Health

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  University of Maryland School of Public Health

  These menopause symptoms are far more visible in women's own conversations than in traditional clinical records, and are not being captured by our healthcare system.

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  Monica Agrawal, PhD

  Biomedical Informatics/Machine Learning in Healthcare

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  Duke University

  A lot of the real richness of what happened to a patient lives in their clinical notes because you can be expressive with language in a way you can’t with checkboxes and forms.

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