Cognitive computing systems for eHealth solutions for the audiological management of the aged patient

Cognitive computing is referred as to the ability of a computing system to simulate human understanding and reasoning processes. Here it is applied to provide a clinical meaningful use of unstructured clinical data and to support clinical decision making. The system solves the problem of automating the 'understanding' the meaning of narrative medical documents in the audiological patient folder and transforms unstructured information into a structured one so that to generate a complete personalized view of the patient situation. Also, the system uses advanced analytics and machine learning to extract significant features from the patient record to detect pattern of patients with similar characteristics to predict or justify the best treatment plan, to assess the compliance of the clinical procedure vs. the best practice guidelines, and to find cases that deviate from the common treatment path.