Achievement

IGERT faculty Noemie Elhadad has built a tool for clinicians to summarize and visualize a patient record at the point of patient care. Using the summarizer, HARVEST, clinicians can for instance note the appearance of a particular problem for the patient and track its course through time as well as access all the notes relevant to that particular problem. HARVEST relies on processing of the notes' content in a patient's longitudinal record (sometimes up to 20 years long) and time-sensitive visualizations. This year, HARVEST has been deployed from a research prototype to an implementation on top of the electronic health record at the Columbia University Medical Center, and operates in real time for any patient in the institution. Part of the challenge of making it real-time was to set up an infrastructure to parse all the patient notes for all records in the institution in an efficient fashion