Assisting e-patients in an Ask the Doctor Service.

Journal: Studies in health technology and informatics
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Abstract

Ask the doctor services are personalized forums allowing patients to ask questions directly to doctors. Usually, patients must choose the most appropriate category for their question among lots of categories to be redirected to the most relevant physician. However, manual selection is tedious and error prone activity. In this work we propose to assist the patients in this task by recommending a short list of most appropriate categories.

Authors

  • Amine Abdaoui
    LIRMM, 860 St Priest Street, 34095 Montpellier, France.
  • Jérôme Azé
    LIRMM UM CNRS, UMR 5506, 860 rue de St Priest, 34095 Montpellier cedex 5, France.
  • Sandra Bringay
    LIRMM, 860 St Priest Street, 34095 Montpellier, France.
  • Pascal Poncelet
    LIRMM, 860 St Priest Street, 34095 Montpellier, France.