HIT Consultant September 21, 2015
HIT Consultant recently sat down with SyTrue founder and CEO, Kyle Silvestro, for a deeper dive into NLP as many healthcare executives are seeking NLP’s sophistication and usefulness in healthcare.
Interviewer: Erica Garvin
1) Big questions about Natural Language Processing (NLP) are fading away but a few remain. How do you define NLP’s capabilities when someone asks, “What is NLP, exactly?”
KS: NLP allows computers to read, understand and extract in-context information from free text (like Microsoft Word or written notes). With NLP, we can normalize and extract data and turn it interoperable, actionable information – which helps patients and providers equally. Bear in mind that this is a mature technology – the result of highly...
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