Automatic Home Medical Product Recommendation

  • Authors:
  • Gang Luo;Selena B. Thomas;Chunqiang Tang

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, USA 10532;IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, USA 10532;IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, USA 10532

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Medical Systems
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Web-based personal health records (PHRs) are being widely deployed. To improve PHR's capability and usability, we proposed the concept of intelligent PHR (iPHR). In this paper, we use automatic home medical product recommendation as a concrete application to demonstrate the benefits of introducing intelligence into PHRs. In this new application domain, we develop several techniques to address the emerging challenges. Our approach uses treatment knowledge and nursing knowledge, and extends the language modeling method to (1) construct a topic-selection input interface for recommending home medical products, (2) produce a global ranking of Web pages retrieved by multiple queries, and (3) provide diverse search results. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our techniques using USMLE medical exam cases.