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Big Data Test Infrastructure (BDTI)
13 April 2020

COVID-19 Documentation Management: City of Valencia, Spain

Conselleria de Sanitat, the Health Public Administration of the Comunidad Valenciana Regional Government, needed a tool capable of analysing and extracting knowledge from the huge quantity of scientific clinical articles from different sources.

Pilot description

Pilot start date: April, 2020 

Objective: To extract the knowledge contained in a large quantity of existing scientific evidence and regulation documentation on COVID-19, and provide it to the clinicians and managers in a manageable way by means of advanced data visualisation tools.

This Pilot aimed to improve the management of COVID-19 crisis at strategic, tactic and operational level. The relevant data was not structured and came from different data sources (e.g. Internet, specific clinical articles and websites). Being able to extract the relevant information from these sources would allow clinical managers to develop actions and policies, help Clinicians in their day-to-day work practice with their patients and allow clinical researchers to improve their research.

  • Data used: COVID-19 updates and new research published in peer-reviewed publication: Over 44,000 scholarly articles, including over 29,000 with full text, about COVID-19 and the coronavirus family of viruses.
     
  • Data sources:  
    - COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19)
    - PubMed.gov

Use cases addressed:

  • Advanced data visualisation
  • Advanced text mining 

BDTI tech stack

The pilot team got to know each tool in the BDTI service offering. 

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Stakeholders

Conselleria de Sanitat, the Health Public Administration of the Comunidad Valenciana Regional Government