Bilde av Chomutare, Taridzo Fred
Bilde av Chomutare, Taridzo Fred
Institutt for informatikk taridzo.chomutare@uit.no

Taridzo Fred Chomutare


Job description

Jeg er en forsker med bakgrunn innen datavitenskap og lidenskap for å fremme helsetjenester gjennom medisinsk informatikk, og jeg har viet karrieren min til å utforske krysset mellom teknologi og helsevesen.

Gjennom karrieren min har jeg fokusert på flere nøkkelområder, inkludert egenbehandling av kroniske tilstander som diabetes og fedme. Forskningen min har involvert utvikling av digitale helseintervensjoner og verktøy som har som mål å gi pasienter mulighet til å bedre håndtere helsen sin og forbedre resultatene. Mer nylig har jeg utvidet arbeidet mitt til klinisk tekstanalyse, der jeg bruker avanserte teknikker innen naturlig språkbehandling (NLP) for å trekke ut verdifulle innsikter fra store mengder ustrukturerte kliniske data i elektroniske pasientjournaler (EPJ), ofte ved å bruke tverrfaglige tilnærminger som innebærer samarbeid med klinikere, helsepersonell og datavitenskapsfolk for å møte komplekse utfordringer i helsetjenesten og bygge bro mellom forskning og praksis.

Når det gjelder undervisning, underviser jeg i flere kurs ved Institutt for informatikk og veileder også doktorgradskandidater i gruppen for Health Informatics and Technology (HIT).


  • Taridzo, Therese Olsen, Miguel Angel Tejedor, Phuong Dinh, Andrius, Kaisa et al.:
    Artificial Intelligence to Improve Clinical Coding Practice in Scandinavia: Crossover Randomized Controlled Trial
    Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Phuong Dinh, Miguel Angel Tejedor, Taridzo Fred, Andrius, Therese Olsen, Torbjørn et al.:
    Domain-Specific Pretraining and Evaluation of NorDeClin-BERT for ICD-10 Code Prediction in Norwegian Clinical Texts
    Journal of Medical Internet Research AI (JMIR AI) 2025 DOI
  • Aleksandar, Alexandra, Laura-Maria, Oleg, Taridzo :
    Barriers and Facilitators for Federated Health Data Networks: Lessons Learned from a Nordic-Baltic Experience
    Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 2025 DOI
  • Phuong Dinh, Miguel Angel Tejedor, Therese Olsen, Taridzo Fred, Andrius, Hercules :
    Deidentifying a Norwegian clinical corpus - An effort to create a privacy-preserving Norwegian large clinical language model
    Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization (CALD-pseudo 2024) 2024 ARKIV
  • Taridzo Fred, Anastasios, Andrius, Therese Olsen, Lill Irene, Phuong Dinh et al.:
    Improving Quality of ICD-10 (International Statistical Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision) Coding Using AI: Protocol for a Crossover Randomized Controlled Trial
    JMIR Research Protocols 2024 DOI / ARKIV
  • Luis Marco, Miguel Angel Tejedor, Phuong Dinh, Alexandra, Therese Olsen, Kari et al.:
    A multinational study on artificial intelligence adoption: Clinical implementers' perspectives
    International Journal of Medical Informatics 2024 DOI
  • Elia, Guillermo, Shauna, Taridzo, Iris Thiele Isip, Carolyn :
    Precision Prevention through Social Media: Report of Four Cases
    Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2024 DOI
  • Anastasios, Sara, Therese Olsen, Torbjørn, Taridzo Fred, Phuong Dinh et al.:
    De-identifying Norwegian Clinical Text using Resources from Swedish and Danish
    AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings 2023 ARKIV / FULLTEKST
  • Anastasios, Therese Olsen, Torbjørn, Taridzo Fred, Andrius, Phuong Dinh et al.:
    Using a large open clinical corpus for improved ICD-10 diagnosis coding
    AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings 2023 ARKIV / FULLTEKST
  • Taridzo, Andrius, Hercules :
    Combining deep learning and fuzzy logic to predict rare ICD-10 codes from clinical notes
    2022 FULLTEKST
  • Kassaye Yitbarek, Sílvia Delgado, Antonis, Luis Marco, Christiaan, Yiannis et al.:
    Health data security and privacy: Challenges and solutions for the future
    2022 DOI
  • Taridzo Fred, Miguel Angel Tejedor, Therese Olsen, Luis Marco, Maryam Tayefi, Karianne Fredenfeldt et al.:
    Artificial Intelligence Implementation in Healthcare: A Theory-Based Scoping Review of Barriers and Facilitators
    International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) 2022 DOI / ARKIV
  • Kassaye Yitbarek, Taridzo, Rolf, Gro Karine Rosvold, Johan Gustav :
    A Privacy-Preserving Audit and Feedback System for the Antibiotic Prescribing of General Practitioners: Survey Study
    JMIR Formative Research 2022 DOI / ARKIV
  • Taridzo Fred :
    Clinical Notes De-Identification: Scoping Recent Benchmarks for n2c2 Datasets
    Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 2022 DOI
  • Andrius, Taridzo, Therese Olsen, Hercules :
    The Influence of NegEx on ICD-10 Code Prediction in Swedish: How is the Performance of BERT and SVM Models Affected by Negations?
    Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 2022 DOI / ARKIV
  • Taridzo, Kassaye Yitbarek, Silvia Delgado, Alexandra, Marcela Tuler de, Line et al.:
    Healthcare and data privacy requirements for e-health cloud: A qualitative analysis of clinician perspectives
    2021 DOI
  • Maryam, Phuong, Taridzo, Hercules, Elisa, Andrius et al.:
    Challenges and opportunities beyond structured data in analysis of electronic health records
    Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Statistics 14. février 2021 DOI / ARKIV
  • Phuong, Miguel Angel Tejedor, Maryam, Taridzo, Fred :
    Risk-Averse Food Recommendation Using Bayesian Feedforward Neural Networks for Patients with Type 1 Diabetes Doing Physical Activities
    Applied Sciences 2020 DOI / ARKIV
  • Taridzo, Kassaye Yitbarek, Andrius, Alexandra, Fred, Hercules :
    De-identifying Swedish EHR text using public resources in the general domain
    Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 2020 DOI / ARKIV
  • Hannah, Taridzo, Hercules :
    Building a De-identification System for Real Swedish Clinical Text Using Pseudonymised Clinical Text
    2019 DOI / FULLTEKST
  • Elia, Meghan, Luis, Taridzo, Anne Helen, Rolf et al.:
    Social media for health promotion in diabetes: Study protocol for a participatory public health intervention design
    BMC Health Services Research 2018 DOI / ARKIV
  • Taridzo, Eirik, Gunnar :
    Effectiveness of an Internet Community for Severely Obese Women
    Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 2016 DOI
  • Taridzo, Svein-Gunnar, Eirik, Gunnar :
    Play and Learn: Developing a Social Game for Children with Diabetes
    Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 2016 DOI
  • Taridzo, Svein-Gunnar, Gunnar, Eirik :
    Serious game co-design for children with type 1 diabetes
    Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 2016 DOI
  • Taridzo Fred, Hasse :
    Fem nordiske og baltiske land tar et stort steg mot fremtidens helseforskning
    Forskning.no 2025
  • Andrius, Taridzo, Hercules, Therese Olsen :
    Easy-ICD - a tool to predict ICD-10 gastro codes from Swedish discharge summaries
    2024
  • Sara, Torbjørn, Therese Olsen, Anastasios, Phuong Dinh, Taridzo Fred et al.:
    De-identifying Norwegian clinical text using resources from Swedish and Danish
    2023
  • Anastasios, Therese Olsen, Torbjørn, Taridzo Fred, Andrius, Phuong Dinh et al.:
    Using a large open clinical corpus for improved ICD-10 diagnosis coding
    2023
  • Hercules, Taridzo Fred, Andrius, Therese Olsen :
    ClinCode - Computer-Assisted Clinical ICD-10 Coding for improving efficiency and quality in healthcare
    2022
  • Hercules, Taridzo Fred, Andrius, Therese Olsen :
    ClinCode - Computer-Assisted Clinical ICD-10 Coding for improving efficiency and quality in healthcare
    2022
  • Andrius, Taridzo Fred, Therese Olsen, Hercules :
    The Influence of NegEx on ICD-10 Code Prediction in Swedish: How is the Performance of BERT and SVM Models Affected by Negations?
    2022
  • Taridzo, Kassaye Yitbarek, Sílvia Delgado, Alexandra, Marcela Tuler De, Line et al.:
    Healthcare and data privacy requirements for e-health cloud: a qualitative analysis of clinician perspectives
  • Alexandra, Phuong, Maryam, Torbjørn, Taridzo :
    Utforsking av elektronisk fenotyping for klinisk praksis
    Nasjonalt senter for e-helseforskning 2020 FULLTEKST
  • Alexandra, Maryam, Phuong, Taridzo, Torbjørn :
    Exploring electronic phenotyping for clinical practice in Norwegian settings
    Nasjonalt senter for e-helseforskning 2020 FULLTEKST
  • Andrius, Hercules, Kassaye Yitbarek, Alexandra, Taridzo :
    Negation detection in Norwegian medical text: Porting a Swedish NegEx to Norwegian. Work in progress
    2018
  • Per Atle, Alexandra, Andrius, Taridzo, Line Helen, Anne Torill et al.:
    Health analytics Kunstig intelligens – nye muligheter for helsetjenesten
    Nasjonalt senter for e-helseforskning 2018 FULLTEKST
  • Alexandra, Andrius, Taridzo, Anne Torill, Per Atle, Torje Dahle et al.:
    Health Analytics
    Nasjonalt senter for e-helseforskning 2018 FULLTEKST
  • Ashenafi Zebene, Taridzo, Dave, Lena, Ole Kristian, Christian et al.:
    An early infectious disease outbreak detection system based on self-recorded data from people with diabetes
    2017
  • Taridzo :
    Self-documentation and Patient Engagement with Helseplattformen in Mental Healthcare
    2017
  • Ashenafi Zebene, Taridzo, Dave, Lena, Ole Kristian, Christian et al.:
    An early infectious disease outbreak detection system based on self-recorded data from people with diabetes
    Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics 2017
  • Taridzo, Kassaye Yitbarek, Line Helen, Anne Torill :
    Blockchain and Digital Health
    Nasjonalt senter for e-helseforskning 2017
  • Taridzo, Meghan, Eirik, Gunnar :
    Using Online Forums to Better Understand Motivations Behind Technology Uptake Among Type 2 Diabetes Patients, Using CGM as the Use-Case
    Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics 2016
  • Gunnar, Miroslav, Eirik, Alexandra, Håvard Kvalvåg, Taridzo et al.:
    Utilizing technology and alternative approaches for displaying vital information and creating engagement for children and adolescents with diabetes
    Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics 2016
  • Eirik, Alexandra, Meghan, Taridzo, Svein-Gunnar, Håvard Kvalvåg et al.:
    Serious Gaming in Diabetes: Combining Apps and Gaming Principles in a Holistic Diabetes Environment
    Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics 2016
  • Taridzo, Svein-Gunnar, Eirik, Gunnar :
    Play and Learn: Developing a Social Game for Children with Diabetes
    2016
  • Taridzo, Svein-Gunnar, Gunnar, Eirik :
    Serious Game Co-Design for Children with Type 1 Diabetes
    2016
  • Taridzo, Eirik, Gunnar :
    Effectiveness of an Internet Community for Severely Obese Women
    2016
  • Gunnar, Miroslav, Eirik, Alexandra, Håvard Kvalvåg, Taridzo et al.:
    Utilizing technology and alternative approaches for displaying vital information and creating engagement for children and adolescents with diabetes
    2016
  • Taridzo, Meghan, Eirik, Gunnar :
    Using Online Forums to Better Understand Motivations Behind Technology Uptake Among Type 2 Diabetes Patients, Using CGM as the Use-Case
    2016
  • Eirik, Alexandra, Meghan, Taridzo, Svein-Gunnar, Håvard Kvalvåg et al.:
    Serious Gaming in Diabetes: Combining Apps and Gaming Principles in a Holistic Diabetes Environment
    2016

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