Extracting Surveillance Data from Templated Sections of an Electronic Medical Note: Challenges and Opportunities
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Introduction The main stay of recording patient data is the free text of electronic medical records (EMR). While stating the chief complaint and history of presenting illness in the patients ‘own words’, the rest of the electronic note is written by the provider in their words. Providers often use boiler-plate templates from EMR pull-downs to document information on the patient in the form of checklists, check boxes, yes/no and free text responses to questions. When these templates are used for recording symptoms, demographic information or medical, social or travel history, they represent an important source of surveillance data [1]. There is a dearth of literature on the use of natural language processing in extracting data from templates in the EMR.
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