Becker's Healthcare November 27, 2018
Julie Spitzer

In a move that expands its budding presence in the healthcare space, Amazon is selling software that mines patient health records for information that helps physicians improve treatments and hospitals cut costs, The Wall Street Journal reports.

The software, dubbed Amazon Comprehend Medical, will use natural language processing and machine learning to highlight key data points — such as medical condition, medication dosage and clinical trial reports — from EHRs and unstructured clinical notes that physicians can use to inform a patient’s care. Amazon said the insights can help healthcare organizations with clinical decision support, revenue cycle management and population health. The software may also free employees of clerical work, such as manually rifling through notes.

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Topics: AI (Artificial Intelligence), Analytics, Big Data, EMR / EHR, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, Insurance, Payer, Payment Models, Physician, Population Health Mgmt, Provider, RCM (Revenue Cycle Mgmt), Technology
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