Question

What are some ways that medical record redundancies can be reduced?

Answer 1

Ans) The increasing availability of Electronic Health Record (EHR) data and specifically free-text patient notes presents opportunities for phenotype extraction.

- Text-mining methods in particular can help disease modeling by mapping named-entities mentions to terminologies and clustering semantically related terms.

- EHR corpora, however, exhibit specific statistical and linguistic characteristics when compared with corpora in the biomedical literature domain.

- We focus on copy-and-paste redundancy: clinicians typically copy and paste information from previous notes when documenting a current patient encounter. Thus, within a longitudinal patient record, one expects to observe heavy redundancy.