This project is sponsored by Cancer.gov to aid sharing human biospecimens with select diagnostic and treatment criteria.
Status:
2005: Approved for use at four Harvard affiliated teaching hospitals
2006: Initial open source release for Pathology Diagnoses (Linux.com article)
2007: Completely rewritten API to improve performance, reproducibility, and hospital-specific customizations (2.X branch).
2008: Extended to support scrubbing other kinds of notes such as patient discharge summaries.
2009: Approved for use at two large HMO sites.
2010: Machine Learning work begins using millions of peer-reviewed publications to train "ham" (medical concepts) from "spam" (patient identifiers).
2011: 3.X development active
2012: Research paper submission
2013: 3.0 software released as candidate