Extracting Structured Data from Physician-Patient Conversations By Predicting Noteworthy Utterances

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Despite diverse efforts to mine various modalities of medical data, the conversations between physicians and patients at the time of care remain an untapped source of insights.

• In this paper, we leverage this data to extract structured information that might assist physicians with post-visit documentation in electronic health records, potentially lightening the clerical burden.
• In this exploratory study, we describe a new dataset consisting of conversation transcripts, post-visit summaries, corresponding supporting evidence (in the transcript), and structured labels.
• We focus on the tasks of recognizing relevant diagnoses and abnormalities in the review of organ systems (RoS).