Natural language processing, or NLP, is a branch of artificial intelligence that enables machine understanding of human language. In recent years, NLP has become part of consumer products and performs ...

Use and adherence to breast cancer risk-reduction agents: A population-based study. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2016 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include a full text ...

Using natural-language processing tools to mine electronic medical records for information on patient pain can lead to better pain-management strategies for terminal cancer patients, concludes a study ...

This article is part of Demystifying AI, a series of posts that (try to) disambiguate the jargon and myths surrounding AI. 20 years ago, if you had a database table containing your sales information ...

B usinesses today manage a tsunami of documents and data that comes in all forms. Consider all the written information contained in investor reports, sales invoices, customer user manuals, technical ...

Mercy, the St. Louis-based health system, is a longtime Epic client, having been on the system since 2008. But experienced proficiency with the electronic health record didn't necessarily mean they ...

Intel Corporation ( INTC) recently acquired Ginger Software's assets and talent related to its natural language processing ("NLP") technology and applications field, which includes the personal ...

Every time a physician or a nurse practitioner sees a patient, they create a document. It may be a clinic note or an encounter note. Similarly, every time a diagnostic physician such as a radiologist ...

Law firms and law departments periodically conduct surveys of their members or clients to learn about a topic, e.g., engagement, work-from-home policies, client satisfaction, or use of AI software.

Clinical-grade, expert-supported natural language processing (NLP) is valuable to payers and providers when exchanging patient information through continuity-of-care documents. One of the most ...