Literature Review on Patient-Friendly Documentation Systems

This literature review forms a deliverable in the European Network of Excellence on Semantic Interoperability and Data Mining in Biomedicine. More specifically, it is part of a work package (WP27) which aims to develop and evaluate generic methods and tools for assisting patients to understand their health and healthcare by generating patient-friendly readable texts that paraphrase the content of their electronic health records. We have reviewed the literature in topics that we consider to be relevant to this work package. When appropriate, we cover variations in conditions in the four countries of the collaborating research groups (France, Germany, Sweden and the UK) and we cover corpora, tools and language technologies for the European languages of interest to these groups.