Bio-IT World January 16, 2019
The electronic health record (EHR) has become both a blessing and a curse for many people in healthcare. While users are often frustrated with these systems, there is no denying that capturing all of the clinical data electronically is enabling new types of capabilities that were previously not possible with paper-based systems. Data within EHRs are often captured in free text clinical documents that provide many details about the patients—details that are not present in other parts of the system. These free text documents often remain an untapped treasure-trove of data because of the difficulty of using the information trapped within them. Software tools are now available that can help to leverage the data in these documents, one of which...