Healthcare DIVE October 11, 2019
Rebecca Pifer

Dive Brief:

  • Amazon Textract, a machine learning service that automatically extracts selected text and data from scanned documents, is now HIPAA-eligible, Amazon Web Services announced in a blog post Thursday. The certification brings the number of AWS’ HIPAA-eligible services up to seven as the company expands its AI-enabled products.
  • Providers routinely extract text and data from documents such as medical records and forms manually or using simple software, which can be a time-intensive process.
  • According to AWS, Textract — a combination of “text” and “extract” — uses artificial intelligence to identify text or data in myriad types of documents, like finding patient information in an insurance claim or values from a table in a digital medical chart, without needing...

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Topics: AI (Artificial Intelligence), Govt Agencies, Health IT, HIPAA, Provider, Technology
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