1. A method comprising: generating an executive summary of a medical event in an electronic medical record (EMR) of an individual, wherein generating the executive summary comprises: receiving the EMR of the individual, the EMR comprises a plurality of medical events corresponding to the individual; identifying the medical event from the plurality of medical events in the EMR; responsive to identifying the medical event, searching a document collection based upon the medical event; locating a document in the document collection that pertains to the medical event as a result of the searching the document collection, the document comprises sentences; assigning a score to each sentence in the sentences based upon one or more features corresponding to the sentences; and extracting a sentence from the document based upon the sentence being assigned a highest score from amongst all scores assigned to the sentences, the executive summary comprises the sentence; and responsive to generating the executive summary, updating the EMR of the individual, wherein updating the EMR of the individual comprises: in the EMR, electronically associating the medical event with the executive summary of the medical event.
10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more features considered when assigning scores to the sentences comprise at least one of: length of a sentence; whether a sentence includes a predefined symptom; whether a sentence includes a predefined organ; whether a sentence includes a predefined biological system; whether a sentence includes a predefined body part; whether a sentence includes a predefined diagnosis; whether a sentence includes an acronym; whether a sentence includes a predefined medical term; a number of medical terms in a sentence; or whether a sentence includes words found elsewhere in the EMR of the individual.