Automated methods for the summarization of electronic health records.

Journal: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
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Abstract

OBJECTIVES: This review examines work on automated summarization of electronic health record (EHR) data and in particular, individual patient record summarization. We organize the published research and highlight methodological challenges in the area of EHR summarization implementation.

Authors

  • Rimma Pivovarov
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, USA rp2521@cumc.columbia.edu.
  • NoĆ©mie Elhadad
    Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.