Healthcare practitioners are increasingly using search functionality embedded in Electronic Medical Record (EMR) software to search for relevant evidence summaries at point of care. We introduce a learning to rank approach that exploits information carried in EMR data and UpToDate user accounts to (significantly) improve ranking results, compared to a comparable model that does not exploit such features.
['Mengqi Jin', 'Hongli Li', 'Christopher H. Schmid', 'Byron C. Wallace']
Using Electronic Medical Records and Physician Data to Improve Information Retrieval for Evidence-Based Care