Patient medical records contain a great number of information distributed in different kinds of documents: diagnosis, prescription, symptoms observations or radiology analysis, etc. Documents heterogeneity makes specific information retrieval difficult to the medical staff members. This paper shows how a semantic model of documents enables handling information stored in these documents. It enables the definition of a generic semantic structure of a medical record: this structure expresses the implicit content of the each document's element by specifyingwhat kind of information is required. Moreover, it enables to display relevant information depending on the reader.
Poullet, L., S. Calabretto, and J.-M. Pinon. A Semantic Model for Information Retrieval in Documents: an experiment with patient medical records. In Electronic Publishing '97 - New Models and Opprtunities: Proceedings of an ICCC/IFIP Conference (Preliminary Version). ELPUB. Canterbury, UK: University of Kent, 1997.