Methods and apparatus for formatting text for clinical fact extraction
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1. A method comprising:
- receiving an original free-form text narrative of a patient encounter provided by a clinician;
re-formatting the original free-form text narrative, using at least one processor, in a manner that facilitates clinical fact extraction performed by a fact extraction engine on a formatted text resulting from the re-formatting;
extracting one or more clinical facts from the formatted text using the fact extraction engine, wherein a first fact of the one or more clinical facts is extracted from a first portion of the formatted text, wherein the first portion of the formatted text is a formatted version of a first portion of the original free-form text narrative, the extracting comprisinganalyzing the formatted text to identify a set of one or more features of at least the first portion of the formatted text,correlating the set of features to one or more abstract semantic concepts, andgenerating computer-readable data that expresses the one or more abstract semantic concepts as the one or more clinical facts extracted from the formatted text; and
providing to a user an indicator that distinguishes the first portion of the original free-form text narrative that resulted in extraction of the first fact, from other portions of the original free-form text narrative that did not result in the extraction of the first fact.
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Abstract
An original text that is a representation of a narration of a patient encounter provided by a clinician may be received and re-formatted to produce a formatted text. One or more clinical facts may be extracted from the formatted text. A first fact of the clinical facts may be extracted from a first portion of the formatted text, and the first portion of the formatted text may be a formatted version of a first portion of the original text. A linkage may be maintained between the first fact and the first portion of the original text.
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1. A method comprising:
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receiving an original free-form text narrative of a patient encounter provided by a clinician; re-formatting the original free-form text narrative, using at least one processor, in a manner that facilitates clinical fact extraction performed by a fact extraction engine on a formatted text resulting from the re-formatting; extracting one or more clinical facts from the formatted text using the fact extraction engine, wherein a first fact of the one or more clinical facts is extracted from a first portion of the formatted text, wherein the first portion of the formatted text is a formatted version of a first portion of the original free-form text narrative, the extracting comprising analyzing the formatted text to identify a set of one or more features of at least the first portion of the formatted text, correlating the set of features to one or more abstract semantic concepts, and generating computer-readable data that expresses the one or more abstract semantic concepts as the one or more clinical facts extracted from the formatted text; and providing to a user an indicator that distinguishes the first portion of the original free-form text narrative that resulted in extraction of the first fact, from other portions of the original free-form text narrative that did not result in the extraction of the first fact. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. Apparatus comprising:
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at least one processor; and a memory storing processor-executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, perform a method comprising; receiving an original free-form text narrative of a patient encounter provided by a clinician; re-formatting the original free-form text narrative in a manner that facilitates clinical fact extraction performed by a fact extraction engine on a formatted text resulting from the re-formatting; extracting one or more clinical facts from the formatted text using the fact extraction engine, wherein a first fact of the one or more clinical facts is extracted from a first portion of the formatted text, wherein the first portion of the formatted text is a formatted version of a first portion of the original free-form text narrative, the extracting comprising analyzing the formatted text to identify a set of one or more features of at least the first portion of the formatted text, correlating the set of features to one or more abstract semantic concepts, and generating computer-readable data that expresses the one or more abstract semantic concepts as the one or more clinical facts extracted from the formatted text; and providing to a user an indicator that distinguishes the first portion of the original free-form text narrative that resulted in extraction of the first fact, from other portions of the original free-form text narrative that did not result in the extraction of the first fact. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. At least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium encoded with a plurality of computer-executable instructions that, when executed, perform a method comprising:
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receiving an original free-form text narrative of a patient encounter provided by a clinician; re-formatting the original free-form text narrative in a manner that facilitates clinical fact extraction performed by a fact extraction engine on a formatted text resulting from the re-formatting; extracting one or more clinical facts from the formatted text using the fact extraction engine, wherein a first fact of the one or more clinical facts is extracted from a first portion of the formatted text, wherein the first portion of the formatted text is a formatted version of a first portion of the original free-form text narrative, the extracting comprising analyzing the formatted text to identify a set of one or more features of at least the first portion of the formatted text, correlating the set of features to one or more abstract semantic concepts, and generating computer-readable data that expresses the one or more abstract semantic concepts as the one or more clinical facts extracted from the formatted text; and providing to a user an indicator that distinguishes the first portion of the original free-form text narrative that resulted in extraction of the first fact, from other portions of the original free-form text narrative that did not result in the extraction of the first fact. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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