Speech recognition software maker Nuance Communications and IBM Research have announced a partnership to use digital diction in electronic health records.
IBM Research will contribute its expertise in medical dictation processing to help Nuance enhance its clinical language understand products, or CLU, technologies. According to a press release, the goal is to enable healthcare organizations to understand and use the clinical information contained in health reports.
“[The collaboration] will combine some of the work IBM has done in the natural language processing area with the work we’re already doing at Nuance to tackle that big problem in healthcare, which is, how do you get structured data out of the narrative part of the dictation?” Peter Dulach, Nuance’s senior vice president of marketing and product strategy for healthcare, told eWeek.
Dulach said the collaboration will allow CLU applications to parse data from a doctor’s dictation into a structured format without having to enter the information into electronic health record fields themselves.
According to Dulach, approximately 2 billion medical reports are dictated by doctors per year in the United States. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is providing doctors and hospitals as much as $27 billion in the next 10 years to buy equipment to digitize medical records.
IBM Research will contribute its expertise in medical dictation processing to help Nuance enhance its clinical language understand products, or CLU, technologies. According to a press release, the goal is to enable healthcare organizations to understand and use the clinical information contained in health reports.
“[The collaboration] will combine some of the work IBM has done in the natural language processing area with the work we’re already doing at Nuance to tackle that big problem in healthcare, which is, how do you get structured data out of the narrative part of the dictation?” Peter Dulach, Nuance’s senior vice president of marketing and product strategy for healthcare, told eWeek.
Dulach said the collaboration will allow CLU applications to parse data from a doctor’s dictation into a structured format without having to enter the information into electronic health record fields themselves.
According to Dulach, approximately 2 billion medical reports are dictated by doctors per year in the United States. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is providing doctors and hospitals as much as $27 billion in the next 10 years to buy equipment to digitize medical records.
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