Automatic Home Medical Product Recommendation

作者：Luo Gang^*; Thomas Selena B; Tang Chunqiang

来源：Journal of Medical Systems, 2012, 36(2): 383-398.

DOI：10.1007/s10916-010-9483-2

• Search engine
• Language model
• Personal health record
• Home medical product
• Nursing knowledge

Web-based personal health records (PHRs) are being widely deployed. To improve PHR's capability and usability, we proposed the concept of intelligent PHR (iPHR). In this paper, we use automatic home medical product recommendation as a concrete application to demonstrate the benefits of introducing intelligence into PHRs. In this new application domain, we develop several techniques to address the emerging challenges. Our approach uses treatment knowledge and nursing knowledge, and extends the language modeling method to (1) construct a topic-selection input interface for recommending home medical products, (2) produce a global ranking of Web pages retrieved by multiple queries, and (3) provide diverse search results. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our techniques using USMLE medical exam cases.

• 出版日期2012-4
• 单位IBM