Clinical text mining: the cutting edge of computer science meets the coalface of small animalveterinary practice

摘要

Implications Clinical text mining provides the potential to facilitate real-time syndromic surveillance, clinical decisionsupport and risk factor identification, directly from the clinical narrative recorded during a consultation.Introduction The wide adoption of electronic health records and growing demands for high quality and evidence-basedhealth care are powerful drivers to the development of techniques for natural language processing of the narrativecomponent of the electronic health record.