Language Software Joins Battle Against Cancer
December 10, 2013
Natural language processing software is a boon to physicians who are required to keep immaculate documentation. Hispanic Business reports that the “Huntsman Cancer Institute uses Linguamatics I2E To Automatically Extract Insights From Clinical Pathology Documents.” The Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) is located at the University of Utah. By using the Linguamatics I2E natural language processing software, HCI will turn its unstructured data in EMRs into actionable information to conduct better research and seek new insights in cancer treatments and outcomes.
The article states:
“HCI is using Linguamatics I2E with its in-house clinical informatics infrastructure to extract discrete data from the unstructured text contained in surgical, pathology, radiology, and clinical notes related to hematology oncology disease areas such as Leukemia and Lymphoma. The resulting data is loaded into an integrated biobanking, clinical research, and genomic annotation platform. This enables HCI’s clinicians and principal investigators to harness the richest possible set of data for research into patient outcomes, comparative effectiveness, and genetic drivers of disease. Analysis at this scale can find information that would often be missed when reading documents one at a time. In addition HCI has a better range and quality of data to support clinical trial matching and increase numbers of patients on trials.”
There is a wealth of medical information available in unstructured data and it is one of the biggest markets for big data. Medical professionals spend hours studying patient records. The I2E gives medical professionals analytics that frees their time, improves research processes, and patient outcomes.
Whitney Grace, December 10, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
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