Generating a query
First Claim
1. A system for generating a query to search educational material to educate a first patient regarding the first patient'"'"'s medical condition, the system comprising:
- a term unit executed on one or more processors and configured to extract a term indicative of a medical condition or a medicine from at least one of a medical report or a part of an electronic medical record of the first patient to obtain an extracted term;
a category unit executed on the one or more processors and configured to associate the extracted term with one of a list of categories that is semantically related with the extracted term, the list of categories including at least medical conditions and medicines;
a similarity unit executed on the one or more processors and configured to determine second patient case information, wherein the second patient case information is associated with an electronic medical record of a second patient, wherein similarity is based on at least one of the medical report or the electronic medical record of the first patient, the second patient case information, and predetermined similarity criteria, wherein the second patient case information is associated with second case queries, and the second case queries are associated with levels of usefulness attached to each second query by the second case patient;
a query unit executed on the one or more processors and configured to generate a first query in dependence on the extracted term, the category, and the second patient case information and the associated second case queries with the attached levels of usefulness;
a submit unit executed on the one or more processors and configured to submit the first query to at least one search engine to obtain a plurality of found documents; and
a comparator executed on the one or more processors and configured to compare at least one found document of the plurality of found documents with at least one of the medical report or the patient electronic medical record of the first patient to determine a value representing a relevance of the found document in respect of at least one of the medical report or the patient electronic medical record of the first patient.
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Abstract
A system for generating a query includes a term unit (1) for extracting a term from at least one input document (51), to obtain an extracted term. A category unit (2) is arranged for associating the extracted term with a category that is semantically related with the extracted term. A query unit (3) is arranged for generating a query in dependence on the extracted term and the category. The query unit (3) includes an additional term unit (4) for generating at least one additional search term based on the category, and the query unit (3) is arranged for including the additional search term in the query. A submit unit (5) is arranged for submitting the query to at least one search engine (50), to obtain a plurality of found documents.
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17 Claims
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1. A system for generating a query to search educational material to educate a first patient regarding the first patient'"'"'s medical condition, the system comprising:
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a term unit executed on one or more processors and configured to extract a term indicative of a medical condition or a medicine from at least one of a medical report or a part of an electronic medical record of the first patient to obtain an extracted term; a category unit executed on the one or more processors and configured to associate the extracted term with one of a list of categories that is semantically related with the extracted term, the list of categories including at least medical conditions and medicines; a similarity unit executed on the one or more processors and configured to determine second patient case information, wherein the second patient case information is associated with an electronic medical record of a second patient, wherein similarity is based on at least one of the medical report or the electronic medical record of the first patient, the second patient case information, and predetermined similarity criteria, wherein the second patient case information is associated with second case queries, and the second case queries are associated with levels of usefulness attached to each second query by the second case patient; a query unit executed on the one or more processors and configured to generate a first query in dependence on the extracted term, the category, and the second patient case information and the associated second case queries with the attached levels of usefulness; a submit unit executed on the one or more processors and configured to submit the first query to at least one search engine to obtain a plurality of found documents; and a comparator executed on the one or more processors and configured to compare at least one found document of the plurality of found documents with at least one of the medical report or the patient electronic medical record of the first patient to determine a value representing a relevance of the found document in respect of at least one of the medical report or the patient electronic medical record of the first patient. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A system for generating a query to search educational material to educate a patient regarding the patient'"'"'s medical condition, the system comprising:
one or more computers programmed to; extract a term regarding the patient'"'"'s medical condition or a medicine from an electronic medical record in an electronic medical records database to obtain an extracted term, wherein the electronic medical record includes at least one of a medical report or a medical record; associate the extracted term with one of a list of medical categories that is semantically related with the extracted term, the list including medical conditions and medicines, the categories being indicative of one or more of body structure, chemical substance, and clinical finding; generate an additional term that is indicative of one or more of side effects, dosage, price, alternatives, and survival rates; generate a query in dependence on the extracted term, the additional term, and at least one category in the list of medical categories; submit the query to at least one search engine to obtain a plurality of found documents; compare at least one found document of the plurality of found documents with at least one of the medical report or the patient'"'"'s medical record to determine a relevance of the found document to at least one of the medical report or the patient'"'"'s medical record; rank the documents by representing each document as a vector in multi-dimensional space, where each dimension corresponds to a word in a given dictionary; represent the patient'"'"'s electronic medical record as a vector in the multi-dimensional space; determine angles between the vector representing the medical record or part of the electronic medical record and the vectors representing the found documents; compare the angles between the document and electronic medical record vectors to determine similarity; determine textual difficulty of each document; and present documents to the patient based on the determined relevance, the determined similarity, and the determined textual difficulty. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A system for generating a query to search educational material to educate a patient regarding the patient'"'"'s medical condition, the system comprising:
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one or more computers programmed to; extract a term regarding the patient'"'"'s medical condition or a medicine from an electronic medical record in an electronic medical records database to obtain an extracted term, wherein the electronic medical record includes at least one of a medical report or a medical record; associate the extracted term with one of a list of medical categories that is semantically related with the extracted term, the list including medical conditions and medicines, the categories being indicative of one or more of body structure, chemical substance, and clinical finding; generate an additional term that is indicative of one or more of side effects, dosage, price, alternatives, and survival rates; generate a query in dependence on the extracted term, the additional term, and at least one category in the list of medical categories; submit the query to at least one search engine to obtain a plurality of found documents; compare at least one found document of the plurality of found documents with at least one of the medical report or the patient'"'"'s medical record to determine a relevance of the found document to at least one of the medical report or the patient'"'"'s medical record; rank the documents by representing each document as a vector in multi-dimensional space, where each dimension corresponds to a word in a given dictionary; represent the patient'"'"'s electronic medical record as a vector in the multi-dimensional space; determine angles between the vector representing the medical record or part of the electronic medical record and the vectors representing the found documents; compare the angles between the document and electronic medical record vectors to determine similarity; determine textual difficulty of each document; and present documents to the patient based on the determined relevance, the determined similarity, and the determined textual difficulty; an electronic medical records database configured to store the medical records of the patient; and a display apparatus configured to present the documents to the medical report or the patient'"'"'s medical record to the patient. - View Dependent Claims (17)
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