  Good communication is vital in healthcare, both among healthcare
professionals, and between healthcare professionals and their patients. And
well-written documents, describing and/or explaining the information in
structured databases may be easier to comprehend, more edifying and even more
convincing, than the structured data, even when presented in tabular or graphic
form. Documents may be automatically generated from structured data, using
techniques from the field of natural language generation. These techniques are
concerned with how the content, organisation and language used in a document
can be dynamically selected, depending on the audience and context. They have
been used to generate health education materials, explanations and critiques in
decision support systems, and medical reports and progress notes.
