Automatic Summarization of Patient Data Using Medically Relevant Summarization Templates

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 maps the terms or concepts of interest to medical concepts in a medical knowledge base. The MISE processes electronic medical records (EMR) of the patient based on the mapping of the medical concepts in the medical knowledge base to the terms or concepts of interest in the summarization template to extract patient information from the patient EMR that matches at least one of the medical concepts from the mapping. The MIE generates and outputs a holistic summary of the patient's EMRs that summarizes the most salient portions of the patient EMR for use by the medical professional in making the medical decision regarding the patient.