Calling Dr. Bezos
December 31, 2018
Amazon has dominated every market it has entered, from books to cloud computing. With their eyes trained to the medical world, it looks like there is little to stop them. We discovered a little more about this intention from a recent Health Data Management story, “Amazon Launches NLP Service to Process Unstructured Text.”
According to the story:
“Amazon Comprehend Medical is being touted as a natural language processing service that makes it easy to use machine learning to accurately and quickly extract relevant information from unstructured text, such as medical notes, prescriptions, audio interview transcripts, as well as pathology and radiology reports.”
Proponents of this new endeavor tout the advances and ease that it will provide. However, not everyone thinks Prime for medical decisions is such a slam dunk. Thankfully, there are clear-eyed individuals, like Wharton School looking at this issue from all angles. As you might expect, there are a lot of grey areas and periods of adjustment that must be made in order for Amazon’s medical wing to really take flight. However, we have seen these hurdles jumped over before and have a hunch Amazon will make it work.
Patrick Roland, December 31, 2018
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