Natural language processing in electronic health records

80 percent of the clinical documentation that exists in healthcare today is unstructured.  It is sometimes referred to as “the text blob” and is buried within electronic health records (EHRs).  The inherent problem with “the text blob” is that locked within it lies an extraordinary amount of key clinical data – valuable information that can and should be leveraged to make more informed clinical decisions, to ultimately improve patient …

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