Features
Color-Coded Search Terms
Terms can be highlighted in any of the 24 colors in the palette provided, making it easy to pick our your terms highlighted within each document. When using a Bundle, you even have control over the specific colors, so you can group concepts by color.
Saved, Shareable Search Terms
With the Bundles feature, users can create groups of search terms that can be saved and share with their colleagues. This provides a convenient way to standardize searches and ensure that everyone is using the same set of terms. Some research teams have even published their Bundles to promote reproducablity.
Data Visualization
Our novel Mosaic view can provide you with a high level overview of what terms were found for each patient based on document source (radiology, pathology, etc). This view takes advantage of the color-coding of terms, described above. This allows for rapid scanning of search results to identify areas of highest interest.
Synonym (Term) Suggestions
Expand your searches with a broad range of "synonyms", which include variations in phrasing, generic and trade names for drugs, acronyms, abbreviation, technical and consumer-friendly terms, and thousands of common spelling errors that often appear in the clinical notes. You can use our default Synonyms collection or include other datasets of your choosing.
Patient Lists
Save a list of patients for future use. Each list can contain up to 100,000 patients, and there is no limit to how many lists you can have. Lists can easily be changed by deleting patients or adding new ones. You can share the list with your study team, and even annotate the patients in a list as you are reviewing their records, by both tagging them and adding comments. These tags and comments can be exported, along with the patient lists, to a password-protected Excel file. Quick Patient lists allow for the creation of temporary lists of patients, perfect for reviews preparatory to research where patient information is not meant to be saved.
Find patients
Search across all patients to identify a cohort, based on your custom search terms. Once a cohort is identified, it can be moved into a Quick Patients list, and then saved as a permanent Patient List if needed.
Trends
Visualize patient counts as trends over time to explore temporal patterns.
Compare Patient Lists
With the Merge List feature you can compare two Patient Lists and overlap them in a Venn diagram. , You can select the parts of the diagram you want, such as the complete set, or only the parts that overlap. Then you can then save a new list with just the subset you're interested in keeping.
Advanced Search Capabilities
Built on top of the powerful and fast Solr search engine, EMERSE provides advanced search capabilities including Booleans, regular expressions, wildcards, as well as fuzzy and proximity searches.
Filters
Multiple options are available to filter the searches: by data source, age, race, ethnicity, etc, to help users narrow down their results to the specific population of interest
Auditing and Role-Based Access
System administrators will be happy to know that EMERSE captures details audit trails of use, including a record of the reason for use at the time of each login. Further, EMERSE provides for the capacity to create numerous roles with the ability to turn on/off various capabilities within the system.
