Intelligent audit code generation from free text in the context of neurosurgery

Authors

Sedigheh Khademi, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Victoria, AustraliaFollow
Pari Delir Haghighi, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Victoria, AustraliaFollow
Philip Lewis, Department of Neurosurgery, Alfred Hospital, Monash Institute of Medical Engineering, Melbourne, AustraliaFollow
Frada Burstein, Centre for Organisational and Social Informatics, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Victoria, AustraliaFollow
Christopher Palmer, Christopher Palmer LimitedFollow

Abstract

Clinical auditing requires codified data for aggregation and analysis of patterns. However in the medical domain obtaining structured data can be difficult as the most natural, expressive and comprehensive way to record a clinical encounter is through natural language. The task of creating structured data from naturally expressed information is known as information extraction. Specialised areas of medicine use their own language and data structures; the translation process has unique challenges, and often requires a fresh approach. This research is devoted to creating a novel semi-automated method for generating codified auditing data from clinical notes recorded in a neurosurgical department in an Australian teaching hospital. The method encapsulates specialist knowledge in rules that instantaneously make precise decisions for the majority of the matches, followed up by dictionary-based matching of the remaining text.

Recommended Citation

Khademi, Sedigheh; Haghighi, Pari Delir; Lewis, Philip; Burstein, Frada; and Palmer, Christopher, "Intelligent audit code generation from free text in the context of neurosurgery" (2015). ACIS 2015 Proceedings. 67.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/acis2015/67