In the article “New Cancer Treatments Lie Hidden Under Mountains of Paperwork”, one of the researchers says that “Data are trapped.”  Later in the same article, another researcher states that “About 50 percent, if not more, of the critical details we need for research are trapped in unstructured documents.” Please post two examples of “unstructured data” that HIM Professionals must abstract from patient records in order to facilitate the analysis of data for clinical research purposes.

External ResourceNew Cancer Treatments Lie Hidden Under Mountains of Paperwork