Speaker: Gang Luo
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

3/6/12
Intelligent Personal Health Records
Tuesday
4:00 pm
Biotechnology Center Auditorium, 425 Henry Mall

Abstract:
Web-based personal health records (PHRs) are under massive deployment. To improve PHR’s capability and usability and provide users with personalized healthcare information to facilitate their daily activities of living, we proposed the concept of intelligent PHR (iPHR). iPHR introduces and extends expert system technology, Web search technology, database trigger technology, and natural language generation technology into the PHR domain. By extensively using medical knowledge and nursing knowledge, iPHR can anticipate users’ needs, guide users to provide the most important information about their medical condition, and automatically form medical queries. Our iPHR system currently provides four functions: questionnaire guided search for disease information, recommendation of home nursing activities, recommendation of home medical products, and continuous user monitoring. Upon the detection of an abnormal event that may have potential medical impact, the fourth function follows the push model of information distribution and actively pushes related personalized healthcare information to the user. This talk will present both the high-level design and some implementation details of iPHR.