Data-to-text summarisation of patient records: Using computer-generated summaries to access patient histories

Data-to-text summarisation of patient records: Using computer-generated summaries to access patient histories☆

OBJECTIVE We assess the efficacy and utility of automatically generated textual summaries of patients' medical histories at the point of care. METHOD Twenty-one clinicians were presented with information about two cancer patients and asked to answer key questions. For each clinician, the information on one of the patients comprised their official hospital records, and for the other patient it...

Using Patient Data to Rank Records of Literature Retrieval

Introduction. Several studies have assessed the needs of clinicians for access to information pertinent to clinical practice. 2 Increasing importance is being given to the use of the best current evidence in clinical practice and health services. Special attention has also been given to the assessment of medical errors and other adverse events in health care. Studying the incidence of medical e...

Using computers to take patient histories.

Text Data Mining of In-patient Nursing Records Within Electronic Medical Records Using KeyGraph

This research used a text data mining technique to extract useful information from nursing records within Electronic Medical Records. Although nursing records provide a complete account of a patient’s information, they are not being fully utilized. Such relevant information as laboratory results and remarks made by doctors and nurses is not always considered. Knowledge concerning the condition ...

Potential impacts of patient access to their electronic care records.

This paper examines the interest and expectations of patients having access to their electronic care records. Semi-structured prospective interviews were performed with 109 patients in a community setting in London where all records are stored digitally either as coded data, free text or scanned in from the paper original. A booth had recently been set up for patients to access their electronic...