Annotation Guidelines
Kayaalp, M., Sagan, P., Browne, A.C., McDonald, C.J. (2016). Guidelines for Annotating Personal Identifiers in the Clinical Text Repository of the National Institutes of Health (version 6/28/2016). Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.

Paper on Clinical Text Annotation - AMIA Symposium 2015
Kayaalp, M., Browne, A.C., Dodd, Z.A, Sagan, P., McGee, T., McDonald, C.J. (2015). Challenges and Insights in Using HIPAA Privacy Rule for Clinical Text Annotation. Proceedings of the Annual American Medical Informatics Association Fall Symposium.

A Sample of Hypothetical Clinical Reports with Color Coded Annotations Using Visual Tagging Tool (VTT)

• Consult
• Discharge Summary
• Physical Examination
• Radiology
• PCR Test
• WBC Count
• Autopsy
• Arm Biopsy
• Lung Biopsy