A system for predicting a reason for a patient's next exam include a clinical database storing one or more clinical documents including clinical data. A natural language processing engine processes the clinical documents to detected clinical data. A normalization engine semantically normalizes the clinical data with respect to an internal data structure and/or an ontology. A pattern recognition engine generates a mapping from a set of known reasons for exam from the normalized clinical data. A prediction engine generates a prediction for a reason for the patient's next exam.
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