Natural Language Processing¶
Goals¶
- For any word/phrase, assign meaning from taxonomy/ontology/terminology
- For any word/phase, determine whether it represents protected health information
- Determine aspects of each entity: time, location, certainty
- Having identified 2 meaningful phrases in a sentence, determine the relationship between them
- In a larger document, identify sentences/fragments relevant to answering a specific medical question
- Summarization
Types¶
- Every word
- De-identification
- Extraction of all
- EntitiesTime
- Certainty
- Causation/association
- Aggregate
- Identify “smoking”
- Cohort selection
IDK¶
Billing codes are enforced based on the tests required to evaluate a patient, not the condition