Healthcare IT Today April 27, 2022
Colin Hung

Consensus Cloud Solutions has added Natural Language Processing capability to its offerings which will make it much easier for healthcare organizations to turn unstructured documents into a rich source of information. Their added capability means that clinicians will now have additional context when providing care to patients, which can lead to better outcomes and reduced costs.

NLP + OCR

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the technology that turns handwritten or typed text into machine-encoded text that a computer understands. OCR is typically applied to scanned paper documents, photos, and other electronic images.

A limitation of OCR, however, is that it’s not capable of providing context for the documents it processes. Here is an analogy: Think of OCR as an Italian...

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