1. A method comprising the following acts: a receiving an electronic medical record of an individual, wherein the electronic medical record comprises a plurality of medical events corresponding to the individual; identifying at least one medical event from the plurality of medical events in the electronic medical record; subsequently to identifying the at least one medical event, automatically searching a document collection based at least in part upon the at least one medical event; locating at least one document in the document collection that pertains to the medical event as a result of the searching the document collection, wherein the at least one document comprises text; causing a computer processor to extract a portion of the text in the at least one document; and electronically associating the at least one medical event with the portion of the text in the at least one document.