A system and method for planning medical follow-up visits based on written recommendations

摘要

A system and method for analyzing a patient report to determine whether a follow-up has been recommended. The system and method perform the steps of extracting a portion of text indicating a follow-up recommendation from the report, extracting a name of the follow-up recommendation and determining a corresponding time interval from the portion of text, extracting context information relating to the patient report, and determining, based on the context information and the name of the follow-up recommendation, whether an appointment corresponding to the follow-up recommendation has been scheduled.