Data-to-text summarisation of patient records: Using computer-generated summaries to access patient histories

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 153-159

  Scott, Donia ^a   Hallett, Catalina ^b   Fettiplace, Rachel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b SwiftKey Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c EASTBOURNE DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automatic summarisation; Electronic patient records; Natural language generation

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER; DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AUTOMATIC SUMMARISATION; ELECTRONIC PATIENT RECORDS; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION;

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84880331967     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: 18735134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2013.04.019     Document Type: Article

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