William Hsu
ABSTRACT
The patient medical record contains a wealth of information consisting of prior observations, interpretations, and interventions that need to be interpreted and applied towards decisions regarding current patient care. Given the time constraints and the large---often extraneous---amount of data available, clinicians are tasked with the challenge of performing a comprehensive review of how a disease progresses in individual patients. To facilitate this process, we demonstrate a neuro-oncology workstation that assists in structuring and visualizing medical data to promote an evidence-based approach for understanding a patient's record. The workstation consists of three components: 1) a structuring tool that incorporates natural language processing to assist with the extraction of problems, findings, and attributes for structuring observations, events, and inferences stated within medical reports; 2) a data modeling tool that provides a comprehensive and consistent representation of concepts for the disease-specific domain; and 3) a visual workbench for visualizing, navigating, and querying the structured data to enable retrieval of relevant portions of the patient record. We discuss this workstation in the context of reviewing cases of glioblastoma multiforme patients.
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- A neuro-oncology workstation for structuring, modeling, and visualizing patient records
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