Automatic generation of an executive summary for a medical event in an electronic medical record

A system comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• memory that stores instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform acts comprising:
• locating a document from amongst a plurality of documents based upon a medical event in an electronic medical record (EMR) of an individual, wherein the medical event is utilized to execute a search over the plurality of documents in connection with locating the document, the document comprises sentences;
• assigning scores to the sentences based upon one or more features corresponding to the sentences;
• extracting a sentence from the document based upon the sentence being assigned a highest score from amongst all the scores assigned to the sentences;
• and
• creating an executive summary for the medical event in the EMR of the individual, wherein the executive summary for the medical event includes the sentence extracted from the document and further wherein the sentence is electronically associated with the medical event in the EMR of the individual.

Computer-readable memory comprising instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform acts comprising:

• generating an executive summary for a medical event in an electronic medical record (EMR) of an individual, wherein generating the executive summary comprises:
• receiving the EMR of the individual, wherein the EMR comprises a plurality of medical events corresponding to the individual;
• locating the medical event in the EMR from amongst the plurality of medical events;
• causing a general purpose web search engine to conduct a web search based upon the medical event located in the EMR, wherein conducting the web search results in receipt of a ranked list of web pages;
• selecting a web page from amongst the ranked list of web pages based upon a position of the web page relative to positions of other web pages in the ranked list of web pages, wherein the web page comprises multiple sentences:
• assigning a respective score to each sentence in the multiple sentences based upon features corresponding to the multiple sentences:
• and
• extracting a sentence from the web page, the sentence extracted from the web based upon the sentence having a highest score assigned thereto from amongst all scores assigned to the multiple sentences, the executive summary for the medical event comprises the sentence extracted from the web page;
• and electronically linking the medical event in the EMR with the executive summary for the medical event.