NLP evolving from legacy tech to interactive apps with text and speech for pop health and precision medicine

Natural language processing is a useful technology that’s become so commonplace in recent years it’s almost hard to remember how miraculous it once seemed.

Hospitals are leveraging NLP to innovate clinician interactions with their electronic health records, of course. But they’re also using it to advance population health analytics projects, create more effective imaging workflows and help manage value-based reimbursement and risk-sharing programs.

As the technology evolves, there’s no shortage of use cases for NLP, which is fast becoming an essential tool to help health systems manage the vast stores of unstructured data they’ve amassed. NLP, in...