Automatic Expansion of Medically Relevant Summarization Templates Using Semantic Expansion

摘要

Mechanisms are provided to implement a medical information summarization engine (MISE). The MISE receives input specifying a summarization template, wherein the summarization template specifies terms or concepts of interest to a medical professional when making a medical decision regarding a patient. The MISE expands the summarization template based on related concepts or related terms related to the terms or concepts of interest specified in the summarization template. The MISE processes an EMR of the patient based on the expanded summarization template to extract patient information corresponding to the terms or concepts of interest and the related concepts or related terms. The MISE generates and outputs a holistic summary of the EMR of the patient that summarizes the most salient portions of the patient EMR for use by the medical professional in making the medical decision regarding the patient, based on extracted patient information obtained from processing the patient EMR.