Method for generating structured medical text through user selection of displayed text and rules
First Claim
1. A method for generating structured text, comprising the steps of:
- generating a browser tree which defines nodes for each of a plurality of phrases;
prompting a user to select nodes from an upper level of said browser tree;
accepting said selection of said upper level node;
displaying nodes from a lower level of said browser tree in a first display portion, where said nodes are nodes which are linked to said upper level node thus forming a path;
repeating said process of displaying, prompting and accepting until a node is reached which is at a lowest level, wherein a lowest level node is one which does not have a required link to any other node of a lower level; and
displaying text, separate from said displayed nodes and selections, wherein said text is generated according to emitted text strings and emission rules maintained in said browser tree for each node, said emitted text strings being null strings or longer strings containing displayable text, wherein the emission rules describe relations between the path and the structured text; and
wherein said browser tree nodes represent elements of a patient'"'"'s medical condition, said text forms a note in said patient'"'"'s patient chart, and a health care provider provides input.
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Abstract
A message originator is presented with a tree of phrase choices organized from broad to specific categories, with the selections in more specific categories directed by the originator'"'"'s selections in the broader categories. In a specific embodiment, the selections relate to a patient'"'"'s medical condition and observations of a health care provider, with broader categories indicating general body systems and narrower categories indicating specific items, including values for properties of an item described by other selections on the path. The text of the message is also presented to the originator, who can then edit the message as text. The text is derivable from the tree structure selections, or path, taken from the originator and the interspersed free form text. At any time in an editing process, or a viewing process after the message has been fixed, an editor or viewer can reselect the path on the tree which generated the text. The system also allows for editing of notes, and will integrate a path of a note into another path where new paths are added. When a path is integrated, generating naturally worded text representations is simpler.
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1. A method for generating structured text, comprising the steps of:
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generating a browser tree which defines nodes for each of a plurality of phrases; prompting a user to select nodes from an upper level of said browser tree; accepting said selection of said upper level node; displaying nodes from a lower level of said browser tree in a first display portion, where said nodes are nodes which are linked to said upper level node thus forming a path; repeating said process of displaying, prompting and accepting until a node is reached which is at a lowest level, wherein a lowest level node is one which does not have a required link to any other node of a lower level; and displaying text, separate from said displayed nodes and selections, wherein said text is generated according to emitted text strings and emission rules maintained in said browser tree for each node, said emitted text strings being null strings or longer strings containing displayable text, wherein the emission rules describe relations between the path and the structured text; and wherein said browser tree nodes represent elements of a patient'"'"'s medical condition, said text forms a note in said patient'"'"'s patient chart, and a health care provider provides input. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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