Improving patients' electronic health record comprehension with NoteAid

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 192, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 714-718

  Ramesh, Balaji Polepalli ^a   Houston, Thomas ^b,c   Brandt, Cynthia ^d,e   Fang, Hua ^b   Yu, Hong ^b,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e VA CONNECTICUT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^f VA Central Western Massachusetts Healthcare System   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer Health; Electronic Health Records; Information Retrieval; Natural Language Processing

Indexed keywords

EHEALTH; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RECORDS MANAGEMENT;

CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; CONSUMER HEALTHS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; EXTERNAL KNOWLEDGE; EXTERNAL RESOURCES; HEALTH-CARE MANAGEMENTS; PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEMS;

ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE;

COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; CONTROLLED VOCABULARY; DATA MINING; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PROCEDURES; WRITING;

COMPREHENSION; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; DATA MINING; HEALTH RECORDS, PERSONAL; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; SOFTWARE; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED; WRITING;

EID: 84894311829     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-289-9-714     Document Type: Conference Paper

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