Methods and apparatus for analyzing specificity in clinical documentation

Apparatus comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• a memory storing processor-executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, perform a method comprising:
• extracting a set of one or more clinical facts from a text documenting a clinician's encounter with a patient, the extracting comprising
• analyzing the text to identify a set of one or more features of at least a portion of the text,
• correlating the set of features to one or more abstract semantic concepts, and
• generating computer-readable data that expresses the one or more abstract semantic concepts as the one or more clinical facts extracted from the text;
• analyzing the set of facts to identify that at least one fact of the set of facts indicates a potential opportunity for providing additional specificity to the set of facts for documenting the patient encounter;
• generating one or more hypotheses for an additional fact not documented in the text, that provides the additional specificity indicated by the at least one fact;
• and
• alerting a user to at least one of the one or more hypotheses.

At least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium encoded with a plurality of computer-executable instructions that, when executed, perform a method comprising:

• extracting a set of one or more clinical facts from a text documenting a clinician's encounter with a patient, the extracting comprising
• analyzing the text to identify a set of one or more features of at least a portion of the text,
• correlating the set of features to one or more abstract semantic concepts, and
• generating computer-readable data that expresses the one or more abstract semantic concepts as the one or more clinical facts extracted from the text;
• analyzing the set of facts to identify that at least one fact of the set of facts indicates a potential opportunity for providing additional specificity to the set of facts for documenting the patient encounter;
• generating one or more hypotheses for an additional fact not documented in the text, that provides the additional specificity indicated by the at least one fact;
• and
• alerting a user to at least one of the one or more hypotheses.