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Doctors notes management

Hospital Patient Management

NLP study finds 50% of patient notes duplicated

NLP study finds 50% of patient notes duplicated

For:
Hospital Companies providing electronic health records (EHR) systems.
Goal:
Improved Operation
Problem addressed
Duplicate text casts doubt on the veracity of all information in the medical record, making it difficult to find and verify information in day-to-day clinical work.
The difficulty of finding clinical information living across numerous locations leads to wasted time retrieving data, or worse, missed information because clinicians lack time to adequately search the electronic health records.
Description
Analysis of note length and content duplication rates using a set of 10 adjacent word tokens (ie, a 10-gram) sliding-window approach to identify spans of text duplicated exactly from earlier notes in a patient’s record for all inpatient and outpatient notes, between 2015 and 2020.
There were a total of 104 456 653 notes for 1 960 689 unique patients consisting of 32 991 489 889 words; 50.1% of the total text in the record (16 523 851 210 words) was duplicated from prior text written about the same patient.
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