Using Semantic Technologies to Extract Highlights from Care Notes.

Journal: Studies in health technology and informatics
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Abstract

We propose a cognitive system for patient-centric care that leverages and combines natural language processing, semantics, and learning from users over time to support care professionals working with large volumes of patient notes. The proposed methods highlight the entities embedded in the unstructured data to provide a holistic semantic view of an individual. A user-based evaluation is presented, showing consensus between the users and the system.

Authors

  • Vanessa Lopez
    IBM Research Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
  • Grace Mccarthy
    IBM Research Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
  • Joao Bettencourt-Silva
    IBM Research Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
  • Marco Sbodio
    IBM Research Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
  • Natasha Mulligan
    IBM Research Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
  • Fabrizio Cucci
    IBM Research Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
  • Stephane Deparis
    IBM Research Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
  • Ciaran Hennessy
    IBM Watson Health, Dublin, Ireland.
  • Nagesh Yadav
    IBM Watson Health, Dublin, Ireland.
  • Karie Kelly
    IBM Watson Health, Dublin, Ireland.
  • Russell Olsen
    IBM Watson Health, Dublin, Ireland.
  • Conor Cullen
    IBM Watson Health, Dublin, Ireland.
  • Spyros Kotoulas
    IBM Research Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.