I am working on a research project and I have come to a point where I need to determine if elements of a patient's medical record match criteria outlined in specific treatment guidelines. I am very new to NLP, but it seems like this is not a common scenario for medical based NLPs. I'm wondering if there is a built-in function in Google Cloud's Healthcare API, or if there is a way to bend the existing functions in a way where I can compare certain medical terms/concepts.
For example, a guideline outlines that if a patient has a history of smoking, they may be more likely to develop X disease. The medical record, however, is not formatted in a way that makes it easy to determine this. I would need to compare the concept of smoking history in the guideline to the patient record to see if I can find a likely correlation between the two.
I may be completely out of my league, or asking for something that is impossible right now. But, that's kind of what a research project is all about.
Any ideas are welcome, and thanks in advance!
