Amazon technology deciphers text in electronic health record

Modern Healthcare: Amazon Web Services unveiled a new natural language processing service that it says can pull keywords and important messages from text, known as unstructured medical data, providing fuel for population health and clinical trials, the company announced Tuesday.

The service, Comprehend Medical, is designed to home in on diagnoses, medication dosage, symptoms and other information that's often hidden in unstructured text, which, according to Optum, makes up about 80% of information in health records.

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