Cognitive framework to identify medical case safety reports in free form text

A computing system for monitoring medical documents, the computing system comprising:

• at least one computing device, each of the at least one computing device comprising:
• at least one processor;
• a memory;
• and
• a communication bus connecting the at least one processor with the memory;
• and wherein the at least one processor is configured to perform:
• identifying elements within a collection of medical documents, the elements including patients, adverse events and medical drugs;
• analyzing the medical documents to determine associations between the identified medical drugs and corresponding identified adverse events;
• encoding the identified elements and determined associations as features;
• identifying portions of the medical documents containing the identified elements and determined associations;
• generating a classification model based at least on the encoded features associated with the identified portions of the medical documents to identify medical case safety reports within the medical documents;
• and
• applying the classification model to a new document to determine a classification of the new document with respect to a medical case safety report.

A computer program product comprising:

• at least one computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith for execution on at least one processor, the computer readable program code being configured to be executed by the at least one processor to perform:
• identifying elements within a collection of medical documents, the elements including patients, adverse events and medical drugs;
• analyzing the medical documents to determine associations between the identified medical drugs and corresponding identified adverse events;
• encoding the identified elements and determined associations as features;
• identifying portions of the medical documents containing the identified elements and determined associations;
• generating a classification model based at least on the encoded features associated with the identified portions of the medical documents to identify medical case safety reports within the medical documents;
• and
• applying the classification model to a new document to determine a classification of the new document with respect to a medical case safety report.