Health IT Analytics March 20, 2017
Machine learning and natural language processing algorithms showed high rates of agreement with human readers when applied to unstructured text about physician skills.
Machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) tools may be able to aid and improve the process of benchmarking the professional skills of physicians, suggests a new article in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.
When researchers from several top British universities applied machine learning tools to free-text questionnaires filled out by providers’ peers, they discovered that the algorithms agreed with human assessments of the same documents up to 98 percent of the time.
The algorithms were able to identify and categorize terms that related to the subject’s interpersonal skills, professionalism, and respect among his or her...
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