International Business Machines Corporation
Systems and methods for alerting on ambiguous advice of medical decision support systems

Abstract:

A system and associated method for alerting to ambiguous medical advice through a data analysis system connected to one or more data sources and a client terminal. The data analysis system has an extraction system, a machine learning system, a categorization system, and an alerting system. The data analysis system extracts first information related to outcomes of one or more medical treatments from one or more first data sources, extracts second information related to outcomes of one or more medical treatments from one or more second data sources, and applies machine learning to the extracted first information and second information to develop a classifier for categorizing proposed treatments. The data analysis system also categorizes a proposed treatment or a combination of treatments as potentially harmful based on the classifier, and provides an alert to a client terminal regarding the proposed treatment.