Paper Info
Title
What Happened to Me while I Was in the Hospital? Challenges and Opportunities for Generating Patient-Friendly Hospitalization Summaries
Abstract
Comprehending medical information is a challenging task, especially for people who have not received formal medical education. When patients are discharged from the hospital, they are provided with lengthy medical documents that contain intricate terminologies. Studies have shown that if people do not understand the content of their health documents, they will neither look for new information regarding their illness nor will they take actions to prevent or recover from their health issue. In this article, we highlight the need for generating personalized hospital-stay summaries and several research challenges associated with this task. The proposed directions are directly informed by our ongoing work in generating concise and comprehensible hospitalization summaries that are tailored to suit the patient’s understanding of medical terminologies and level of engagement in improving their own health. Our preliminary evaluation shows that our summaries effectively present required medical concepts.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/s41666-018-0036-7
Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Discharge summaries,Natural language generation,Personalization,Simplification,Patient-centric information
Journal
3
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
2509-498X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
11
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sabita Acharya100.34
Andrew D. Boyd200.68
Richard Cameron310.70
Karen Dunn Lopez41810.09
Pamela Martyn-Nemeth500.34
Carolyn Dickens600.34
Amer Ardati700.68
Jose D. Flores800.34
Matt Baumann900.34
Betty Welland1000.34
Barbara Di Eugenio11801109.27