Natural Language Processing

Machine Learning Uses EHR Data to Predict Alzheimer’s Risk

February 11, 2020 by Jessica Kent

Using structured and unstructured EHR data, machine learning algorithms could accurately identify patients at risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. At least 50 percent of...

Mayo Clinic Launches Data Analytics Platform for Drug Development

January 15, 2020 by Jessica Kent

Mayo Clinic has announced the Clinical Data Analytics Platform as the first venture under the Mayo Clinic Platform, an initiative to use insights and knowledge extracted from data to improve healthcare...

Natural Language Processing Advances Clinical Decision Making

December 27, 2019 by Emily Sokol, MPH

Providers are inundated with large amounts of data that is daunting to comb through to find actionable outcomes.  Artificial intelligence (AI) technology is frequently seen as the solution to...

Natural Language Processing Improves Care for Liver Failure Patients

November 12, 2019 by Jessica Kent

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have developed natural language processing (NLP) tools that can diagnose the early and subtle signs of language-associated cognitive impairments in patients with...

5 Steps for Planning a Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Project

July 20, 2018 by Jennifer Bresnick

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are quickly overhauling the processes of researching, purchasing, and implemented IT tools in the healthcare industry.  With new breakthroughs announced almost every day and thousands of...

How Do Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning Differ in Healthcare?

May 04, 2017 by Jennifer Bresnick

If the futurists, visionaries, and venture capitalists are to be believed, artificial intelligence is right on the cusp of becoming the most important breakthrough for healthcare since penicillin.  Self-driving cars, scary-smart...

Top 4 Machine Learning Use Cases for Healthcare Providers

March 31, 2017 by Jennifer Bresnick

As healthcare providers and vendors start to show off more mature big data analytics skills, machine learning and artificial intelligence have quickly rocketed to the top of the industry’s...

Health Information Governance Strategies for Unstructured Data

January 27, 2017 by Jennifer Bresnick

While electronic health records still have the potential to standardize care by enabling advanced analytics and informing clinical decision-making, much of the data held within these systems – and a large proportion of the data used...

What Is the Role of Natural Language Processing in Healthcare?

August 18, 2016 by Jennifer Bresnick

For many providers, the healthcare landscape is looking more and more like a shifting quagmire of regulatory pitfalls, financial quicksand, and unpredictable eruptions of acrimony from overwhelmed clinicians on the edge of revolt. The...