10 Patient empowerment via technologies for patient-friendly personalized language
Abstract: Free-text reports are used in health care to transfer information between working shifts and sites. This text, written by a physician, nurse, specialist, ward secretary or other healthcare worker, is full of jargon, idioms and shorthand that patients find difficult to understand. If patients are to be empowered to take an active role and make informed decisions in their health care, they need support for understanding these reports. This chapter discusses language technologies as a way to provide support for patients to better understand free-text reports with difficult clinical language. This includes expanding ...
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