Chilmark Research July 17, 2019
In the rush to digitize the business and practice of healthcare with minimal disruption to clinical workflows, up to 80 percent of captured data is unstructured. This data represents a wealth of potentially valuable information, but its accumulated scale makes it impractical for providers to use it in everyday practice. The leading solution for turning unstructured data into valuable insights is natural language processing (NLP). While NLP is not plug-and-play technology it can address many problems facing the industry.
NLP Overview
NLP is a sub-field of artificial intelligence (AI) that has seen strong acceptance in consumer markets. Perhaps the most obvious example of this technology’s adoption and potential is the rise of smart speakers and virtual assistants, which are...