Semantic Expansion of Clinician Generated Data Preferences for Automatic Patient Data Summarization.

Patient Electronic Health Records (EHRs) typically contain a substantial amount of data, which can lead to information overload for clinicians, especially in high-throughput fields like radiology. Thus, it would be beneficial to have a mechanism for summarizing the most clinically relevant patient information pertinent to the needs of clinicians. This study presents a novel approach for the curation of clinician EHR data preference information towards the ultimate goal of providing robust EHR summarization.

Improving the Path from Diagnoses to Documentation: A Cognitive Review Tool for Clinical Notes and Administrative Records.

EMR systems are intended to improve patient-centered care management and hospital administrative processing. However, the information stored in EMRs can be disorganized, incomplete, or inconsistent, creating problems at the patient and system level. We present a technology that reconciles inconsistencies between clinical diagnoses and administrative records by analyzing free-text notes, problem lists and recorded diagnoses in real time.

Generalized Extraction and Classification of Span-Level Clinical Phrases.

Much of the critical information in a patient's electronic health record (EHR) is hidden in unstructured text. As such, there is an increasing role for automated text extraction and summarization to make this information available in a way that can be quickly and easily understood. While many clinical note text extraction techniques have been examined, most existing techniques are either narrowly targeted or focus primarily on concept-level extraction, potentially missing important contextual information.

Automatic Generation of Conditional Diagnostic Guidelines.

The diagnostic workup for many diseases can be extraordinarily nuanced, and as such reference material text often contains extensive information regarding when it is appropriate to have a patient undergo a given procedure. In this work we employ a three task pipeline for the extraction of statements indicating the conditions under which a procedure should be performed, given a suspected diagnosis. First, we identify each instance in the text where a procedure is being recommended.