AN INFORMATION FILTERING SYSTEM FOR E-HEALTH - The Health-on-Net Experience

Nicola Capuano, Matteo Gaeta, Vincenza Precone, Mario Scherillo

2010

Abstract

This paper describes a work performed in the framework of the HealthOnNet project purposed to define and implement an Internet-based repository of diagnostic exams and medical reports connecting several Italian hospitals. The repository, which will be used as an historical and legal archive of clinical data, offers second opinion teleconsulting features as well as advanced categorization and filtering services. The paper is focused on this latter point and describes the process and the algorithms we defined to automatically classify medical documents (with respect to the widely adopted International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems of the World Health Organization) and to filter them on the basis of a user defined profile. Then it describes the developed prototype and some experimentation results.

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Capuano N., Gaeta M., Precone V. and Scherillo M. (2010). AN INFORMATION FILTERING SYSTEM FOR E-HEALTH - The Health-on-Net Experience . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2010) ISBN 978-989-674-016-0, pages 210-215. DOI: 10.5220/0002697402100215


in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf10,
author={Nicola Capuano and Matteo Gaeta and Vincenza Precone and Mario Scherillo},
title={AN INFORMATION FILTERING SYSTEM FOR E-HEALTH - The Health-on-Net Experience},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={210-215},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002697402100215},
isbn={978-989-674-016-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2010)
TI - AN INFORMATION FILTERING SYSTEM FOR E-HEALTH - The Health-on-Net Experience
SN - 978-989-674-016-0
AU - Capuano N.
AU - Gaeta M.
AU - Precone V.
AU - Scherillo M.
PY - 2010
SP - 210
EP - 215
DO - 10.5220/0002697402100215