Tapping Into the Potential of Natural Language Processing in Healthcare

Wendy Chapman, PhD, Director of the Centre for Clinical and Public Health Informatics at the University of Melbourne, and Mike Dow, Senior Director of Data Science, Health Catalyst.  Gathering insight from clinical notes remains one of the areas of untapped healthcare intelligence with tremendous potential, but extracting that value is difficult. Still, a few organizations across the country are demonstrating success using advanced technology tied to intuitive processes and procedures. Dr. Chapman and Mike provide an NLP primer sharing principle-driven stories to help get you going with NLP whether you are just beginning or considering processes, tools or how to build support with key leadership.