Patent ID: 8768723
Filing Date: 2014-07-01
Classification: G10L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving an original free-form text narrative of a patient encounter provided by a clinician; re-formatting the original free-form text narrative, using at least one processor, in a manner that facilitates clinical fact extraction performed by a fact extraction engine on a formatted text resulting from the re-formatting; extracting one or more clinical facts from the formatted text using the fact extraction engine, wherein a first fact of the one or more clinical facts is extracted from a first portion of the formatted text, wherein the first portion of the formatted text is a formatted version of a first portion of the original free-form text narrative, the extracting comprising providing to a user an indicator that distinguishes the first portion of the original free-form text narrative that resulted in extraction of the first fact, from other portions of the original free-form text narrative that did not result in the extraction of the first fact.