Medication Extraction and Reconciliation Knowledge Instrument (MERKI) Parser

The overall plan for MERKI has been to build a set of tools that allow the robust construction of patient medication information from structured and free-text clinical data sources for purposes of medication reconciliation, pharmacovigilance, and quality assurance. As of now what has been built is a parser that extracts medication information (drug name, dose, route, frequency) from clinical notes. The parser is publicly available here along with a demo. The larger project (under some other name than MERKI, and probably not as open source code) will continue at Columbia.
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Demo

Paste a chunk of clinical text into the box below (maximum, 2000 characters), choose an output format, and hit submit to see how the parser extracts medication information from text.
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Copyright 2007 Sigfried Gold
This file is part of MERKI. MERKI is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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