Speech recognition and software developer Nuance Communications and IBM are collaborating to develop clinical language understanding technologies for healthcare.
Under the deal, teams of natural language processing (NLP) researchers from Burlington, MA-based Nuance and IBM of Armonk, NY, will work to integrate the firms' technologies. Specifically, Nuance and IBM said they are developing systems that will automatically extract and convert discrete clinical data from clinician-dictated narratives into actionable information that can be used to bring a more evidence-based approach to patient care.
This clinical language understanding technology, a healthcare-specific version of NLP, will be integrated into Nuance's suite of speech recognition systems. The companies believe the collaboration will advance the use of NLP technologies as a core component of electronic health record workflows and allow healthcare organizations to understand and use the clinical information contained in patient reports.
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