AI4Pandemics Talk #31: Emily Pfaff, UNC School of Medicine

Title: Phenotyping Long COVID Using Machine Learning and Electronic Health Records: Promise and Pitfalls

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Abstract: Long COVID is a life-altering, potentially debilitating sequela of COVID-19. Though it is clear that long COVID is a major public health crisis, we still lack a firm definition of the disease over two years after the condition was first recognized. Machine learning models trained on electronic health records may provide one avenue to enable us to find patterns among patients diagnosed with long COVID, which in turn may help us identify other patients who lack a diagnosis, but may have long COVID all the same. This is a first step toward a definition of long COVID that can be leveraged for future long COVID research, but there remains a long road ahead.