Extracting relevant information from physician-patient dialogues for automated clinical note taking (D19-62)
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| Challenge: | a system that extracts pertinent medical information from dialogues between clinicians and patients is proposed . entering data into EMRs is currently slow and error-prone, and clinicians spend up to 50% of their time on data entry. |
| Approach: | They propose a system that automatically extracts medical information from dialogues between clinicians and patients using context and time information. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system extracts medical information from dialogues and automatically generates a patient note. |
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