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  • Medical Informatics
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Clinical Data Management

Background:

  • Electronic Health Records (EHRs) contain valuable clinical data.
  • Interacting with EHRs using natural language is a growing area of research.
  • Physicians frequently pose questions that require structured data retrieval from EHRs.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the manual annotation of natural language EHR questions into a formal meaning representation.
  • To analyze the challenges and feasibility of creating a corpus of structured EHR queries.
  • To lay the groundwork for automatic understanding of EHR questions in clinical settings.

Main Methods:

  • A pilot study was conducted using 100 EHR questions from ICU physicians.
  • Manual annotation of these questions into a formal meaning representation was performed.
  • Analysis focused on the difficulties and practicality of this annotation process.

Main Results:

  • The study identified specific challenges in representing EHR questions as structured queries.
  • Feasibility of creating a substantial corpus of manually annotated structured queries was assessed.
  • Insights into the complexity of EHR question formalization were gained.

Conclusions:

  • Manual annotation of EHR questions is a complex but potentially feasible process.
  • Developing a structured query corpus is crucial for advancing natural language EHR interfaces.
  • This work supports the development of automated methods for EHR question comprehension.