A Semantic Platform for Information Retrieval from E-Health Records.

Electronic patient health records encompass valuable information about patient’s medical problems, diagnoses, and treatments offered including their outcomes. However, a problem for medical professionals is an ability to efficiently access the information that are documented in the form of free-text. Therefore, the work presented here exhibits an information retrieval platform for efficient processing of e-health records. The system offers facilities for keyword searches, semantic searches, and ontological searches. An open evaluation during the TRECMED 2011 demonstrated competitive results.