Supporting communication and decision making in Finnish intensive care with language technology

Journal of Healthcare Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 595-614

  Suominen, Hanna J ^a   Salakoski, Tapio I ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Computer assisted decision making; Electronic health records; Intensive care; Medical informatics applications; Natural language processing; Nursing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864034444     PISSN: 20402295     EISSN: 20402309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/2040-2295.1.4.595     Document Type: Article

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