Bio-IT World June 2, 2022
Innovation Practices Award–Extracting high-quality data from clinical records can be time-consuming and costly, primarily when manual abstractors are tasked with mining complex, unstructured, and lengthy documents. Not to mention, word choice, format, and symptom documentation vary among healthcare settings. This arduous process lead the scientists at Guardant Health and Linguamatics, an IQVIA company, to launch a real-world evidence database called GuardantINFORM. The platform was named one of the 2022 Bio-IT World Innovative Practices award winners.
GuardantINFORM operates as a text mining and natural language processing (NLP) precision oncology platform that extracts, transforms, and normalizes relevant information from clinical documents and genomic data. It integrates information from various sources, including Guardant360–the first FDA-approved liquid biopsy genomic profiling...