The growth of electronic health records is exponentially increasing the amount of information about patients available to their physicians. However, during emergency situations, when time is of the essence, crucial medical information is often obscured in the mass of data contained in a patient鈥檚 medical record.听
To better serve patients, the team at the MedStar Institute for Innovation (MI2)鈥攚hich serves as a catalyst for innovation across the entire MedStar Health organization鈥攕ought a scientific solution to this technology challenge in collaboration with the data science team at 有料盒子APP Hamilton.
Together, they applied health and data science expertise and natural language processing to clinical data and have created a solution to this vexing problem.