Health Language Analytics
The Roles that Clinical NLP can play in the Health Setting
People often ask us what roles Natural Language Processing (NLP) can play in health settings. It is relatively easy to rattle off half a dozen examples of cases studies. However, these instances don’t fulfil the need of enquirers who are…
Deficiencies in Current Practices of Clinical Natural Language Processing (CNLP) – White Paper
We have recently assessed the accuracy of Clinical NLP software available through either open source projects or commercial demonstration systems at processing pathology reports. This whitepaper discusses the twenty-eight deficiencies we observed in our testing of five different systems.
HLA passes test for California Cancer Registry | featured in Pulse+IT
Health Language Analytics has passed an acceptance test for automating the document classification and coding processes of the California Cancer Registry (CCR), and its Horizon technology is now scheduled to be part of the next CCR production release in January.…
Australia’s HORIZON Machine Learning Platform in Deal to Crunch Data for the California Cancer Registry
Press Release: Australia’s HORIZON Machine Learning Platform in Deal to Crunch Data for the California Cancer Registry HORIZON has been chosen by California’s Public Health Institute (PHI) to extract and codify cancer data from pathology text reports for The California…
Accepted for Publication in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Ying Ou and Professor Jon Patrick’s manuscript entitled “Automatic negation detection in narrative pathology reports” has been accepted for publication in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. Abstract Objective To detect negations of medical entities in free-text pathology reports with different approaches,…
HLA Announces Formation of Advisory Board
Press Release iCIMS and HLA today are excited to announce the formation of a joint Advisory Board, which includes highly experienced executives from the Health and IT sectors, and the Government. The board members are: Professor David G. Penington AO,…
HLA Chosen to Exhibit at Web Summit 2014 ALPHA
HLA has been proudly chosen as one of the 25 early stage startups of the week from around the world to exhibit for free as part of the Alpha Program at Web Summit 2014. The event runs from 4-6 Nov…
HLA and iCIMS Technology Assists Basque Hospitals in Recording and Translating Clinical Records
HLA and sister company iCIMS have joined forces with researchers at the University of the Basque Country and the Department of Health of the Basque government, Osakidetza, for a unique project. The aim is for Basque speaking doctors to write…