Patient portal allows discharged patients to access their personalized discharge instructions in electronic health records (EHRs). However, many patients have difficulty understanding or memorizing their discharge instructions. In this paper, we present PaniniQA, a patient-centric interactive question answering system designed to help patients understand their discharge instructions. PaniniQA first identifies important clinical content from patients' discharge instructions and then formulates patient-specific educational questions. In addition, PaniniQA is also equipped with answer verification functionality to provide timely feedback to correct patients' misunderstandings. Our comprehensive automatic and human evaluation results demonstrate our PaniniQA is capable of improving patients' mastery of their medical instructions through effective interactions

翻译：患者门户允许出院患者访问其电子健康记录（EHRs）中的个性化出院指导。然而，许多患者难以理解或记忆这些出院指导。本文提出了一种以患者为中心的交互式问答系统PaniniQA，旨在帮助患者理解其出院指导。该系统首先从患者的出院指导中识别关键临床内容，然后制定个性化的患者教育问题。此外，PaniniQA还配备了答案验证功能，可提供及时反馈以纠正患者的误解。我们的全面自动评估和人工评估结果表明，PaniniQA能够通过有效交互提升患者对其医疗指导的掌握程度。