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LANGUAGE AND COMPUTING PARTNERS WITH REVOLUTION HEALTH TO IMPROVE PATIENT HEALTH AND WELLNESS
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LANGUAGE AND COMPUTING TO PROVIDE NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY TO OCHSNER HEALTH SYSTEM
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Language and Computing -- Ontology assisted Natural Language Processing
Managing patient data in healthcare can be overwhelming. Patient Safety, Regulation Compliance, Staff Productivity all depend on timely and accurate information. However, EMR Systems, Decision Support Applications, Clinical Data Warehouses and other technologies intended to assist, all share one serious drawback; to be effective, they require structured data. As much as 80% of medical knowledge exists in the form of unstructured free text. Even data that is structured can be problematic because there is no standard and different systems structure data in different ways. The result is massive manual coding operations, tedious pick-lists that contain every option but the one the user needs, and arcane query languages that make users focus more on computer skills and less on healthcare.
 
 
Natural Language Processing (NLP) extracts data and information from free text documents for further processing. Language and Computing (L&C) is unique in delivering this level of understanding through its integration of the world’s largest biomedical knowledge base, LinKBaseŽ with sophisticated linguistic processing algorithms. These include:

Mapping and modeling disparate controlled medical vocabularies (CMVs)
Populating clinical data warehouses with elements captured in free text documents
Supporting the billing and reimbursement process
Improve patient safety and decision support applications
Implementing the Continuity of Care Record (CCR) elements in HL7 CDA representation

Language and Computing's vision is building solutions that help organizations leverage natural language processing (NLP) to improve access to and the management of knowledge.

To learn more, feel free to explore our website or contact a member of the L&C team. Because if information access is your problem, L&C is the solution.