Cognitive evaluation of assessment questions and answers to determine patient characteristics
OwnerJames S. Coxinventor
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Abstract
Mechanisms are provided for determining values to associate with medical conditions of a patient. A patient assessment is received that comprises a natural language question and a corresponding answer, about a patient, provided in response to the question. Cognitive natural language processing is performed on the patient assessment to extract features from the natural language question and corresponding answer. The extracted features are evaluated within a context of a pre-existing electronic medical record of the patient. A value for a medical condition of the patient is determined based on results of the evaluation and stored in the electronic medical record for the patient.
Claims20
A method, in a data processing system comprising a processor and a memory, for determining values to associate with medical conditions of a patient, comprising:
- receiving, by the data processing system, a patient assessment comprising a natural language question and a corresponding answer, about a patient, provided in response to the question;
- performing, by the data processing system, cognitive natural language processing on the patient assessment to extract features from the natural language question and corresponding answer;
- evaluating, by the data processing system, the extracted features within a context of a pre-existing electronic medical record of the patient at least by generating one or more queries based on the extracted features and applying the one or more queries to a corpus of electronic documents specific to the patient;
- determining, by the data processing system, a value for a medical condition of the patient based on results of the evaluation;
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- storing, by the data processing system, the determined value for the medical condition in the electronic medical record for the patient, wherein evaluating the extracted features comprises converting the extracted features from the question and the corresponding answer into a natural language statement and generating the one or more queries based on the natural language statement.
A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having a computer readable program stored therein, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on a computing device, causes the computing device to:
- receive a patient assessment comprising a natural language question and a corresponding answer, about a patient, provided in response to the question;
- perform cognitive natural language processing on the patient assessment to extract features from the natural language question and corresponding answer;
- evaluate the extracted features within a context of a pre-existing electronic medical record of the patient at least by generating one or more queries based on the extracted features and applying the one or more queries to a corpus of electronic documents specific to the patient;
- determine a value for a medical condition of the patient based on results of the evaluation;
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- store the determined value for the medical condition in the electronic medical record for the patient, wherein evaluating the extracted features comprises converting the extracted features from the question and the corresponding answer into a natural language statement and generating the one or more queries based on the natural language statement.
An apparatus comprising:
- a processor;
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- a memory coupled to the processor, wherein the memory comprises instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
- receive a patient assessment comprising a natural language question and a corresponding answer, about a patient, provided in response to the question;
- perform cognitive natural language processing on the patient assessment to extract features from the natural language question and corresponding answer;
- evaluate the extracted features within a context of a pre-existing electronic medical record of the patient at least by generating one or more queries based on the extracted features and applying the one or more queries to a corpus of electronic documents specific to the patient;
- determine a value for a medical condition of the patient based on results of the evaluation;
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- store the determined value for the medical condition in the electronic medical record for the patient, wherein evaluating the extracted features comprises converting the extracted features from the question and the corresponding answer into a natural language statement and generating the one or more queries based on the natural language statement.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.