41. A method for producing structured clinical information from patient records, comprising the steps of: providing a first computerized patient record comprising at least one data source containing patient information, at least some of the patient information being unstructured and at least some of the patient information being structured; providing a memory storing a domain knowledge base containing domain-specific criteria; extracting clinical information from the at least one data source by data mining using the domain-specific criteria; and creating, using a computer, structured clinical information as a function of the extracting, the structured clinical information being a summary of the unstructured and structured patient information.
41. A method for producing structured clinical information from patient records, comprising the steps of: providing a first computerized patient record comprising at least one data source containing patient information, at least some of the patient information being unstructured and at least some of the patient information being structured; providing a memory storing a domain knowledge base containing domain-specific criteria; extracting clinical information from the at least one data source by data mining using the domain-specific criteria; and creating, using a computer, structured clinical information as a function of the extracting, the structured clinical information being a summary of the unstructured and structured patient information. 58. The method of claim 41 , wherein the data source includes structured information.