Corpus-Based Problem Selection for EHR Note Summarization

Physicians have access to patient notes in volumes far greater than what is practical to read within the context of a standard clinical scenario. As a preliminary step toward being able to provide a longitudinal summary of patient history, methods are examined for the automated extraction of relevant patient problems from existing clinical notes. We explore a grounded approach to identifying important patient problems from patient history. Methods build on existing NLP and text-summarization methodologies and leverage features observed in a relevant corpus.