CM-Extractor: An application for automating medical quality measures abstraction in a hospital setting

Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1814-1821

  Morsch, Mark L ^a   Vengco, Joel L ^b   Sheffer Jr , Ronald E ^a   Heinze, Daniel T ^a  

^a A Life Medical Inc   (United States)

^b PARTNERS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC PATIENT DATA; MEDICAL DOCUMENTS; MEDICAL QUALITY MEASURES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA STRUCTURES; HEALTH CARE; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

EID: 33750684621     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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