Analysis of 'One in a Million' primary care consultation conversations using natural language processing.

Journal: BMJ health & care informatics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Modern patient electronic health records form a core part of primary care; they contain both clinical codes and free text entered by the clinician. Natural language processing (NLP) could be employed to generate these records through 'listening' to a consultation conversation.

Authors

  • Yvette Pyne
    Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol Centre for Academic Primary Care, Bristol, UK yvette@digitalgp.net.
  • Yik Ming Wong
    Intelligent Systems Labs, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
  • Haishuo Fang
    Intelligent Systems Labs, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
  • Edwin Simpson
    Intelligent Systems Labs, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.