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Taking Natural Language Processing to the Next Level
There is a growing demand for structured, “actionable” information to be extracted from unstructured (dictated) medical documents. Advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology is being leveraged throughout the healthcare industry to derive patient information from free text and to produce actionable data that are used to improve patient care and streamline workflow.
NLP Bridges the Gap between Narrative and Structured Data Entry
The use of NLP offers physicians the best of both worlds. It supports the comprehensive documentation of care through narrative dictation, capturing the uniqueness of each patient encounter and documenting the clinical decision-making process without the limitations of rigid documentation “templates”. However, unlike “blobs” of free-text, key patient data is identified and automatically saved in the electronic health record’s (EHR’s) database, where information can be analyzed, reported and used for better patient care.
NLP technology allows a computer to read and understand electronic free text and extract data for use in countless applications across the healthcare spectrum. NLP software analyzes “free text” dictation, tagging the most important clinical data elements such as problems, social history, medications, allergies, and procedures. The tagged elements can then be used to populate electronic medical records, enabling applications that range from retrospective analysis across large amounts of medical records to medical decision support at the point of care.
By integrating one of the most comprehensive medical ontologies and state-of-the-art language processing algorithms, Nuance’s NLP technology can achieve the highest level of conceptual understanding of clinical narrative and bridge the gap with structured data entry to support advanced healthcare applications.
The Right Partnership
Nuance Healthcare is the right partner to help physicians and organizations transition to structured data creation, while enhancing quality of clinical documentation, adoption and utilization of EHR. Nuance Healthcare leverages its considerable speech and NLP technology assets—the industry’s largest portfolio, extensive knowledge and experience, and integration of cutting-edge communication and mobile devices—to create the right solutions for each physician. Moreover, Nuance Healthcare’s partnerships with all the major EHR vendors ensures that clinicians will have direct access to their choice of clinical documentation workflow while data will seamlessly flow into the EHR.
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