Automatic Summarization of Patient Data Using Medically Relevant Summarization Templates

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 implement a medical information summarization engine (MISE) which operates to:

• receive input specifying a summarization template, wherein the summarization template specifies terms or concepts of interest to a medical professional when making a medical decision regarding a patient;
• map the terms or concepts of interest to medical concepts in a medical knowledge base;
• process electronic medical records (EMR) of the patient based on the mapping of the medical concepts in the medical knowledge base to the terms or concepts of interest in the summarization template to extract patient information from the patient EMR that matches at least one of the medical concepts from the mapping;
• and
• generate and output a holistic summary of the patient's EMRs that summarizes the most salient portions of the patient EMR for use by the medical professional in making the medical decision regarding the patient.

An apparatus comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory coupled to the processor, wherein the memory comprises instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to implement a medical information summarization engine (MISE) that operates to:
• receive input specifying a summarization template, wherein the summarization template specifies terms or concepts of interest to a medical professional when making a medical decision regarding a patient;
• map the terms or concepts of interest to medical concepts in a medical knowledge base;
• process electronic medical records (EMR) of the patient based on the mapping of the medical concepts in the medical knowledge base to the terms or concepts of interest in the summarization template to extract patient information from the patient EMR that matches at least one of the medical concepts from the mapping;
• and
• generate and output a holistic summary of the patient's EMRs that summarizes the most salient portions of the patient EMR for use by the medical professional in making the medical decision regarding the patient.