@inproceedings{torri-etal-2024-structuring,
    title = "Structuring Clinical Notes of {I}talian {ST}-elevation Myocardial Infarction Patients",
    author = "Torri, Vittorio  and
      Mazzucato, Sara  and
      Dalmiani, Stefano  and
      Paradossi, Umberto  and
      Passino, Claudio  and
      Moccia, Sara  and
      Micera, Silvestro  and
      Ieva, Francesca",
    editor = "Demner-Fushman, Dina  and
      Ananiadou, Sophia  and
      Thompson, Paul  and
      Ondov, Brian",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the First Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4Health) @ LREC-COLING 2024",
    month = may,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Torino, Italia",
    publisher = "ELRA and ICCL",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.cl4health-1.5",
    pages = "37--43",
    abstract = "In recent years, it has become common for patients to get full access to their Electronic Health Records (EHRs), thanks to the advancements in the EHRs systems of many healthcare providers. While this access empowers patients and doctors with comprehensive and real-time health information, it also introduces new challenges, in particular due to the unstructured nature of much of the information within EHRs. To address this, we propose a pipeline to structure clinical notes, providing them with a clear and concise overview of their health data and its longitudinal evolution, also allowing clinicians to focus more on patient care during consultations. In this paper, we present preliminary results on extracting structured information from anamneses of patients diagnosed with ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction from an Italian hospital. Our pipeline exploits text classification models to extract relevant clinical variables, comparing rule-based, recurrent neural network and BERT-based models. While various approaches utilized ontologies or knowledge graphs for Italian data, our work represents the first attempt to develop this type of pipeline. The results for the extraction of most variables are satisfactory (f1-score {\textgreater} 0.80), with the exception of the most rare values of certain variables, for which we propose future research directions to investigate.",
}

In recent years, it has become common for patients to get full access to their Electronic Health Records (EHRs), thanks to the advancements in the EHRs systems of many healthcare providers. While this access empowers patients and doctors with comprehensive and real-time health information, it also introduces new challenges, in particular due to the unstructured nature of much of the information within EHRs. To address this, we propose a pipeline to structure clinical notes, providing them with a clear and concise overview of their health data and its longitudinal evolution, also allowing clinicians to focus more on patient care during consultations. In this paper, we present preliminary results on extracting structured information from anamneses of patients diagnosed with ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction from an Italian hospital. Our pipeline exploits text classification models to extract relevant clinical variables, comparing rule-based, recurrent neural network and BERT-based models. While various approaches utilized ontologies or knowledge graphs for Italian data, our work represents the first attempt to develop this type of pipeline. The results for the extraction of most variables are satisfactory (f1-score {\textgreater} 0.80), with the exception of the most rare values of certain variables, for which we propose future research directions to investigate.
Torri, Vittorio Mazzucato, Sara Dalmiani, Stefano Paradossi, Umberto Passino, Claudio Moccia, Sara Micera, Silvestro Ieva, Francesca
Structuring Clinical Notes of Italian ST-elevation Myocardial Infarction Patients