Medical Summarization in Practice: Design, Deployment, and Analysis of a Clinical Summarization System for a German Hospital (2026.eacl-industry)
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| Challenge: | a large number of EHRs are created for a patient, which must be summarized into a discharge summary. |
| Approach: | They propose to integrate a clinical summarization system into a live german hospital workflow to help with the generation of discharge summaries. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system can be used in a live german hospital to help with discharge summaries. |
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