Enhancing Decision-making Systems with Relevant Patient Information by Leveraging Clinical Notes

Almeida, João Rafael; Figueira Silva, Joáo; Pazos, A.; Matos, Sergio; Oliveira, José Luís

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Enhancing Decision-making Systems with Relevant Patient Information by Leveraging Clinical Notes

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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2183/26881

DOI: 10.5220/0009166902540262

Publication date

2020

Authors

Almeida, João Rafael

Figueira Silva, Joáo

Pazos, A.

Matos, Sergio

Oliveira, José Luís

Bibliographic citation

Almeida, J.; Silva, J.; Sierra, A.; Matos, S. and Oliveira, J. (2020). Enhancing Decision-making Systems with Relevant Patient Information by Leveraging Clinical Notes.In Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 5 HEALTHINF: HEALTHINF, ISBN 978-989-758-398-8, ISSN 2184-4305, pages 254-262. DOI: 10.5220/0009166902540262

Abstract

[Abstract] Hospitalised patients suffering from secondary illnesses that require daily medication typically need personalised treatment. Although clinical guidelines were designed considering those circumstances, existing decision-support features fail in assimilating detailed relevant patient information, which opens up opportunities for systems capable of performing a real-time evaluation of such data against existing knowledge and providing recommendations during clinical treatments. In this paper, we present a proposal for a new feature to integrate with electronic health record (EHR) systems that enriches the health treatment process by automatically extracting information from patient medical notes and aggregating it in clinical protocols. Our goal is to leverage the historical component of the patient trajectory to improve clinical decision support systems performance.