Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes: (1) receiving at least one patient note from an electronic medical record (EMR) system as a source text narrative; (2) deriving lexical chains corresponding to themes in the source text narrative; (3) scoring the lexical chains with respect to a medical taxonomy to identify higher scoring lexical chains among the lexical chains; (4) scoring sentences in the source text narrative with respect to the higher scoring lexical chains to identify higher scoring sentences among the sentences; and (5) creating a textual summary of the source text narrative from the higher scoring sentences.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of treating chronic congestive heart failure and particularly of increasing exercise tolerance in individuals so afflicted which comprises orally administering to such individuals a therapeutically effective amount of 2-[(2,6-dichlorophenyl)amino]-2-imidazoline or a nontoxic, pharmaceutically acceptable addition salt thereof. Such oral administration is preferably in an amount of at least about 0.1 mg/day for periods of at least about one week.