Natural Language Processing

Amazon Introduces Machine Learning Medical Transcription Service

by Jessica Kent

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a new machine learning service called Amazon Transcribe Medical, which will automatically convert physician consultations and dictated notes from speech to...

Natural Language Processing Improves Care for Liver Failure Patients

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...

KLAS: Artificial Intelligence Success Requires Partnership, Training

by Jessica Kent

To ensure success with artificial intelligence in healthcare, provider organizations should bring together experts in AI, data science, and analytics, while vendors should provide strong customer...

Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Clinician Training, Practice

by Emily Sokol, MPH

Proponents of artificial intelligence (AI) tout its potential to revolutionize healthcare delivery. Machine learning is identifying high-risk patients for preventive treatments, deep learning...

Artificial Intelligence’s Impact on Patient Safety, Outcomes

by Emily Sokol, MPH

Artificial intelligence (AI) has numerous applications for the healthcare industry. Machine learning, natural language processing, and robotics can predict an individual's risk of contracting HIV,...

Deep Learning Tool Detects Cancer in Radiology Reports

by Jessica Kent

A team from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has developed a deep learning tool that performed as well as human reviewers in extracting clinical information regarding changes in tumors from unstructured...

Natural Language Processing Detects High-Risk Diabetic Patients

by Jessica Kent

Using natural language processing tools could help providers better detect low blood sugar in patients with diabetes, leading to improved chronic disease management, revealed a study published in the...

Artificial Intelligence Could Increase Clinical Trial Success Rates

by Jessica Kent

Artificial intelligence could improve key parts of the clinical trial process, including selection and recruitment and patient monitoring, according to a study published in Trends in Pharmacological...

Natural Language Processing Detects Social Isolation in Patients

by Jessica Kent

A natural language processing tool was able to analyze notes in the EHR and identify prostate cancer patients experiencing social isolation, revealed a study conducted at the Medical University of...

Natural Language Processing Supports Genetic Sequencing in Record Time

by Jennifer Bresnick

Machine learning and clinical natural language processing have led to a new record time for genetic sequencing while offering hope to seriously ill pediatric patients with rare conditions. At Rady...

IBM Watson Health Pulls Back on AI Drug Discovery Service

by Jennifer Bresnick

IBM Watson Health is winding down one of its flagship artificial intelligence services, according to a report from STAT News citing internal sources. IBM Watson for Drug Discovery, one of the...

Identifying Near-Term Use Cases for AI in the Healthcare Setting

by Jennifer Bresnick

With competition heating up in a rapidly changing, consumer-driven environment, healthcare organizations are increasingly investigating how to integrate artificial intelligence into their clinical...

User Comments, NLP Improve Clinical Decision Support Alerts

by Jessica Kent

Leveraging natural language processing methods to analyze user feedback and override comments in clinical decision support systems could help organizations detect malfunctioning or broken alerts,...

Blockchain, AI, NLP Target of Late-Year Healthcare Acquisitions

by Jennifer Bresnick

The impending holiday season is no reason for healthcare companies to slow down their strategic plans, according to 3M, M*Modal, Change Healthcare, and PokitDok. All four companies are shifting...

Artificial Intelligence, Big Data Basics Lead Top 10 Stories of 2018

by Jennifer Bresnick

Healthcare professionals gearing up for a data-driven 2019 have spent the past year equipping themselves with the knowledge they need to succeed in a heavily digital environment. Readers of...

Deep Learning Spots Adverse Drug Events in Unstructured EHR Data

by Jessica Kent

Deep learning and natural language processing techniques can significantly improve the detection of adverse drug events (ADEs) in unstructured electronic health record (EHR) data, a study published in...

Amazon Takes on Unstructured EHR Data with Machine Learning, NLP

by Jennifer Bresnick

Amazon is taking another big step into the healthcare industry by announcing a new machine learning service that can extract meaningful information from unstructured EHR data and free-text clinical...

Natural Language Processing Tools Struggle to Read Social Media

by Jessica Kent

Social media may offer an untapped data resource for healthcare, but natural language processing (NLP) tools still struggle to analyze and extract meaningful insights from this information due to...

Alexa, Siri NLP Skills Not Ready for Reliable Medical Conversations

by Jennifer Bresnick

Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, and other AI-driven virtual assistants may be useful tools for ordering rideshares and controlling smart homes, but these conversational computing systems are not quite...

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