Ontology-Driven Semantic Search for Brazilian Portuguese Clinical Notes

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2015:216:1022.

Abstract

The emerging penetration of Health IT in Latin America (especially in Brazil) has exacerbated the ever-increasing amount of Electronic Health Record (EHR) clinical free text documents.This imposes a workflow efficiency challenge on clinicians who need to synthesize such documents during the typically time-constrained patient care. We propose an ontology-driven semantic search framework that effectively supports clinicians' information synthesis at the point of care.

MeSH terms

  • Biological Ontologies / organization & administration*
  • Brazil
  • Decision Support Systems, Clinical / organization & administration*
  • Electronic Health Records / organization & administration*
  • Humans
  • Information Storage and Retrieval / methods*
  • Machine Learning
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Point-of-Care Systems / organization & administration*
  • Portugal
  • Semantics*
  • Terminology as Topic
  • User-Computer Interface
  • Workflow