Contextual Variation of Clinical Notes induced by EHR Migration

In this study, we evaluate the contextual variation of clinical notes by measuring the semantic and syntactic similarity of the notes of two sets of physicians comprising four medical specialties across EHR migrations at two Mayo Clinic sites. We find significant semantic and syntactic variation imposed by the context of the EHR system and between medical specialties whereas only minor variation is caused by variation of spatial context across sites. Our findings suggest that clinical language models need to account for process differences at the specialty sublanguage level to be generalizable.PMID:38222426 | PMC:PMC10785835
Source: AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings - Category: Bioinformatics Authors: Source Type: research