Identification of Related Electronic Medical Record Documents in a Question and Answer System

摘要

A contextually relevant patient information extractor is provided that receives an input question directed to medical information about a patient; analyzes a patient's electronic medical records (EMRs) to identify an initial entry in the patient's EMRs corresponding to a candidate answer to the input question; analyzes a context of the patient's EMRs based on the initial entry to identify entries in the patient's EMR that are contextually connected to the initial entry; performs question answering analysis on the initial entry and entries that are contextually connected to the initial entry to identify one or more candidate answers to the input question; and outputs a final answer to the input question based on the question answering analysis.