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A natural language parsing system for encoding admitting diagnoses.

Authors :
Haug PJ
Christensen L
Gundersen M
Clemons B
Koehler S
Bauer K
Source :
Proceedings : a conference of the American Medical Informatics Association. AMIA Fall Symposium [Proc AMIA Annu Fall Symp] 1997, pp. 814-8.
Publication Year :
1997

Abstract

Free-text or natural language documents make up an increasing part of the computerized medical record. While they do provide accessible clinical information to health care personnel, they fail to support processes that require clinical data coded according to a shared lexicon and data structure. We have developed a natural language parser that converts free-text admitting diagnoses into a coded form. This application has proven acceptably accurate in the experimental laboratory to warrant a test in the target clinical environment. Here we describe an approach to moving this research application into a production environment where it can contribute to the efforts of the Health Information Services Department. This transition is essential if the products of natural language understanding research are to contribute to patient care in a routine and sustainable way.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
1091-8280
Database :
MEDLINE
Journal :
Proceedings : a conference of the American Medical Informatics Association. AMIA Fall Symposium
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
9357738