Title :
On search guide phrase compilation for recommending home medical products
Author_Institution :
IBM T.J. Watson Res. Center, Hawthorne, NY, USA
fDate :
Aug. 31 2010-Sept. 4 2010
Abstract :
To help people find desired home medical products (HMPs), we developed an intelligent personal health record (iPHR) system that can automatically recommend HMPs based on users´ health issues. Using nursing knowledge, we pre-compile a set of “search guide” phrases that provides semantic translation from words describing health issues to their underlying medical meanings. Then iPHR automatically generates queries from those phrases and uses them and a search engine to retrieve HMPs. To avoid missing relevant HMPs during retrieval, the compiled search guide phrases need to be comprehensive. Such compilation is a challenging task because nursing knowledge updates frequently and contains numerous details scattered in many sources. This paper presents a semi-automatic tool facilitating such compilation. Our idea is to formulate the phrase compilation task as a multi-label classification problem. For each newly obtained search guide phrase, we first use nursing knowledge and information retrieval techniques to identify a small set of potentially relevant classes with corresponding hints. Then a nurse makes the final decision on assigning this phrase to proper classes based on those hints. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our techniques by compiling search guide phrases from an occupational therapy textbook.
Keywords :
knowledge acquisition; medical information systems; occupational medicine; patient care; query processing; search engines; thesauri; health issues; home medical product recommendation; iPHR; information retrieval techniques; intelligent personal health record system; medical meanings; multi-label classification problem; nursing knowledge retrieval techniques; occupational therapy textbook; queries; search engine; search guide phrase compilation; semantic translation; Context; Couplings; Humans; Medical diagnostic imaging; Pediatrics; Algorithms; Automation; Computer Communication Networks; Equipment Design; Humans; Information Storage and Retrieval; Internet; Language; Medical Informatics; Medical Records Systems, Computerized; Nursing; Occupational Therapy; Software; Vocabulary, Controlled;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Buenos Aires
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4123-5
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5626435