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How natural language processing can help EHRs

An excerpt from Too Big to Ignore: The Business Case for Big Data (Wiley and SAS Business Series). Unstructured and semi-structured data is, by its nature, largely text based. Even numbers are often surrounded by words, like an article on…

An excerpt from Too Big to Ignore: The Business Case for Big Data (Wiley and SAS Business Series).

Unstructured and semi-structured data is, by its nature, largely text based. Even numbers are often surrounded by words, like an article on a company’s stock. This section describes some of the tools that trans­late what is often a bunch of gobbledygook into meaningful informa­tion, the result of …

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How natural language processing can help EHRs