The oncological nurse assistant: a web-based intelligent oncological nurse advisor
Bellika, J.G.; Hartvigsen, G.
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 107(Part 1): 573-577
2004
ISSN/ISBN: 0926-9630 PMID: 15360877 Document Number: 580830
As more people get cancer the need for medical guidance increases. In Norway, one of the providers of medical guidelines is the Norwegian Cancer Association where oncological nurses assist people with a cancer diagnosis or their relatives. The nurses search through both national and internal guide-books and web pages. The input to this process is mostly dis-charge letters. The whole process is time consuming. To serve more patients, PaSent, a web-based intelligent oncological nurse advisor, has been developed. Through using discharge letters as input to our neural network based information retrieval system PaSent, we have been able to provide relevant medical information to the patient as well as to the health personnel themselves. The PaSent search method uses predefined knowledge about the context, paired with the vocabulary of the input document, to compute a relevance measure for a potential result document. The system has been validated by oncological nurses and medical doctors. In the reported experiments, the achieved search results from PaSent have been comparable to the results achieved by the health personnel.