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Information routinely collected by health care organizations is used by researchers to analyze the causes of illness and evaluate the effectiveness of potential cures. Medical information sharing systems are built to encourage hospitals to contribute patient data for use in clinical studies. These organizations possess a wide variety of environments and risk assessments, and require sufficient ...

Our method to accomplish the Medical Record Track is described in this paper. For ad hoc retrieval, Indri and Xapian are used for indexing, searching, and initial query expansion. The main query expansion is achieved using LSI. The evaluation results show the performance of our system is above the average.

InfoLab at the University of Delaware participated in the TREC 2012 Medical Records Track. This paper explains our method and describes experiment results. One limitation of existing keyword matching based retrieval functions is the problem of vocabulary mismatch. To overcome this limitation, we propose to first map topics and visits to bags of concepts using domain thesaurus, and then model th...

The structure of medical records becomes ever more critical with the advent of electronic records. The Health Informatics Unit (HIU) of the Royal College of Physicians has two work streams in this area. The Records Standards programme is developing generic standards for all entries into medical notes and standards for the content of admission, handover and discharge records. The Information Lab...