Methods and systems for manifestation and transmission of follow-up notifications

1. A method for manifestation and transmission of follow-up notifications performed by at least one computer processor of a computing device, the method comprising:

(A) determining whether a document indicates a follow-up action associated with content in the document, wherein determining further comprises:

analyzing the content in the document;

setting a value in the information model based on the analyzing;

identifying one or more rules, within the information model, based on the value; and

applying the rules to identify one or more explicit and one or more implicit follow-up actions within the document, wherein the one or more explicit and one or more implicit follow-up actions comprises a recommended procedure;

(B) generating at least one alert including an indication of at least one of the explicit and implicit follow-up actions, wherein alerts pertaining to implicit follow-up actions includes data not explicitly included in the document;

(C) manifesting the at least one alert to at least one user;

(D) maintaining, by a workflow application, a listing of documents that include an indication of at least one follow-up action, the listing of documents including the document indicating the explicit and implicit follow-up actions and information associated with a provider treating a patient that is a subject of the document; and

(E) before (C), directing, by the workflow application, sending of a second alert to the provider associated with the document, before a recommended date for manifesting the at least one alert to the at least one user.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising applying automatic speech recognition to an audio signal to produce a structured document representing contents of the audio signal.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining further comprises applying the information model to determine whether the content in the document includes language associated with the follow-up action.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining further comprises applying the information model to determine whether the content in the document includes an identification of a recommended procedure associated with the follow-up action.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining further comprises applying the information model to determine whether the content in the document includes an identification of a date associated with the follow-up action.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining further comprises applying the information model to determine whether the content in the document includes an identification of a time associated with the follow-up action.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining further comprises applying, by a natural language processing engine, a machine learning model to content in the document to determine whether the content in the document includes language associated with the follow-up action.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining further comprises applying, by a natural language processing engine, a machine learning model to content in the document to determine whether the content in the document includes language associated with a finding implicitly indicating the follow-up action.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein generating further comprises:

(B-1) identifying at least one alert recipient;

(B-2) automatically generating an electronic message including the at least one alert; and

(B-3) automatically transmitting the generated electronic message to the at least one alert recipient.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein (B-2) further comprises automatically generating an electronic mail message.

11. The method of claim 9 , wherein (B-2) further comprises automatically generating a text message.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein generating at least one alert further comprises assigning a date for the at least one alert on which to take the indicated follow-up action.

13. The method of claim 1 further comprising maintaining, by a workflow application, contact information for at least one user associated with the indicated follow-up action.

14. The method of claim 1 further comprising maintaining, by a workflow application, a type of the indicated follow-up action.

15. The method of claim 1 further comprising maintaining, by a workflow application, a status of the indicated follow-up action.

16. The method of claim 1 further comprising maintaining, by a workflow application, a type of a procedure described by the content of the document, the procedure associated with the indicated follow-up action.

17. The method of claim 1 further comprising storing, by a workflow application, the generated alert.

18. The method of claim 1 further comprises generating a task associated with the at least one alert.

19. The method of claim 1 , wherein the document is a radiology report.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer program instructions executable by at least one computer processor to perform a method, the method comprising:

(A) determining whether a document indicates a follow-up action associated with content in the document, wherein determining further comprises:

analyzing the content in the document;

setting a value in the information model based on the analyzing;

identifying one or more rules, within the information model, based on the value; and

applying the rules to identify one or more explicit and one or more implicit follow-up actions within the document, wherein the one or more explicit and one or more implicit follow-up actions comprises a recommended procedure;

(B) generating at least one alert including an indication of at least one of the explicit and implicit follow-up actions, wherein alerts pertaining to implicit follow-up actions includes data not explicitly included in the document;

(C) manifesting the at least one alert to at least one user;

(D) maintaining, by a workflow application, a listing of documents that include an indication of at least one follow-up action, the listing of documents including the document indicating the explicit and implicit follow-up actions and information associated with a provider treating a patient that is a subject of the document; and

(E) before (C), directing, by the workflow application, sending of a second alert to the provider associated with the document, before a recommended date for manifesting the at least one alert to the at least one user.