Role of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Patient Experience
Over the last few years, the healthcare industry has been moving into an era of transparency and consumer awareness. The regulatory bodies have been publicly displaying the performance of healthcare organizations to enable patients to make informed decisions about the organizations they wish to receive care from. The major categories that many healthcare organizations are being evaluated…
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5 Steps to Improve Your Data Quality
In the age of big data, the quantity of data being generated each year is increasing exponentially. The opportunity to use data to transform how organizations operate and create value for the customers is growing at a similar rate.
Blockchain in Healthcare: Evolution and Use Cases (Part-2)
In the last blog, we discussed how the financial incentives put in place through regulations encouraged healthcare providers to embrace health information technology (HIT). The investments in HIT infrastructure improved medical care and lowered medical costs. However, providers realized that data centralization limited their ability to achieve interoperability and made them vulnerable to cyber-attacks which are…
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Blockchain in Healthcare: Building Trust and Security (Part-1)
As a step towards value-based healthcare system, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act mandated all public and private healthcare providers to adopt electronic medical records (EMR). The adoption and meaningful use of EMRs are also the primary objectives of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009 and the Federal Health IT…
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Are you mining unstructured data?
In the US healthcare industry, nearly 1.2 billion clinical documents are produced each year, out of which 60-80% of valuable clinical data is in the form of unstructured data. This means that a significant amount of data that could be effectively used to improve outcomes by a large margin is stored in the form of narrative…
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