PERSONALIZED MEDICAL CONTENT RECOMMENDATION

• US 20120253139A1
• Filed: 04/04/2011
• Published: 10/04/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Maman, Yonatan, Mesika, Yossi, Roitman, Haggai
• Granted Patent: US 8,543,422 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/300
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4848 Monitoring or testing the effects of treatment, e.g. of medication
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7275 Determining trends in physiological measurement data; Predicting development of a medical condition based on physiological measurements, e.g. determining a risk factor
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/10 relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/40 relating to drugs, e.g. their side effects or intended usage

Abstract

Method, system, and computer program product for personalized medical content recommendation are provided. The method may include: having a patient medical profile; having a concept or relationship relating to the patient medical profile; obtaining medical content relevant to the concept or relationship; determining a score of the concept or relationship to the patient medical profile; enhancing the score with a context score based on the values of attributes of the concept or relationship in the patient medical profile; enhancing the score with an additional knowledge score based on knowledge of the concept or relationship additional to the medical content; recommending medical content with respect to a patient medical profile based on the enhanced scores. The method may also include providing an explanation of a medical content recommendation based on a matching concept or relationship, including generating one or more explanation sentences based on the context score, and generating one or more explanation sentences based on the additional knowledge score.

Claims

1. A method for personalized medical content recommendation, comprising:

having a patient medical profile;

having a concept or relationship relating to the patient medical profile;

obtaining medical content relevant to the concept or relationship;

determining a score of the concept or relationship to the patient medical profile;

enhancing the score with a context score based on the values of attributes of the concept or relationship in the patient medical profile;

enhancing the score with an additional knowledge score based on knowledge of the concept or relationship additional to the medical content;

recommending medical content with respect to a patient medical profile based on the enhanced scores;

wherein said steps are implemented in either;

computer hardware configured to perform said steps, or

computer software embodied in a non-transitory, tangible, computer-readable storage medium.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein determining a score of the concept or relationship to the patient medical profile is based on a proximity measure of the concept or relationship to the patient medical profile.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, including:

determining additional medical knowledge relating to the concept or relationship by searching external sources for medical knowledge relating to the concept or relationship.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a concept is one of the group of:

a medication, a medical condition, an allergy, an immunization, a treatment plan, a vital sign, a medical test result, a food, a patient symptom.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a relationship is an interaction between concepts.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, including:

providing an explanation of a medical content recommendation based on a matching concept or relationship.

7. The method as claimed in claim 6, including:

generating one or more explanation sentences based on the context score.

8. The method as claimed in claim 6, including:

generating one or more explanation sentences based on the additional knowledge score.

9. A computer program product for personalized medical content recommendation, the computer program product comprising:

a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising;

computer readable program code configured to;

have a patient medical profile;

have a concept or relationship relating to the patient medical profile;

obtain medical content relevant to the concept or relationship;

determine a score of the concept or relationship to the patient medical profile;

enhance the score with a context score based on the values of attributes of the concept or relationship in the patient medical profile;

enhance the score with an additional knowledge score based on knowledge of the concept or relationship additional to the medical content;

recommend medical content with respect to a patient medical profile based on the enhanced scores.

10. A system for personalized medical content recommendation, comprising:

a processor;

a patient medical profile receiver;

a matched concept or relationship receiver;

a medical content receiver for receiving medical content relevant to the concept or relationship;

a scoring component for determining a score of the concept or relationship to the patient medical profile including;

a context scoring component for providing a context score based on the values of attributes of the concept or relationship in the patient medical profile; and

an additional knowledge scoring component for providing an additional knowledge score based on knowledge of the concept or relationship additional to the medical content.

11. The system as claimed in claim 10, including:

a context determining component for determining values of attributes of the concept or relationship in the patient medical profile.

12. The system as claimed in claim 10, including:

an additional knowledge obtaining component for determining additional medical knowledge relating to the concept or relationship; and

wherein the additional knowledge obtaining component searches external sources for medical knowledge relating to the concept or relationship.

13. The system as claimed in claim 10, wherein the scoring component includes an original scoring component for a medical content enhanced by the context scoring component and the additional scoring component.

14. The system as claimed in claim 10, wherein a concept is one of the group of:

a medication, a medical condition, an allergy, an immunization, a treatment plan, a vital sign, a medical test result, a food, a patient symptom.

15. The system as claimed in claim 10, wherein a relationship is an interaction between concepts.

16. The system as claimed in claim 10, including:

an explanation component for providing an explanation of a medical content recommendation based on a matching concept or relationship.

17. The system as claimed in claim 16, wherein the explanation component includes generating one or more explanation sentences based on the context score.

18. The system as claimed in claim 16, wherein the explanation component includes generating one or more explanation sentences based on the additional knowledge score.

19. A method of providing a service to a customer over a network, the service comprising:

receiving a patient medical profile;

receiving a concept or relationship relating to the patient medical profile;

obtaining medical content relevant to the concept or relationship;

determining a score of the concept or relationship to the patient medical profile;

enhancing the score with a context score based on the values of attributes of the concept or relationship in the patient medical profile;

enhancing the score with an additional knowledge score based on knowledge of the concept or relationship additional to the medical content;

recommending medical content with respect to a patient medical profile based on the enhanced scores.