Healthcare Natural Language Processing (NLP) API
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A Healthcare Natural Language Processing (NLP) API is a domain-specific NLP API designed to process clinical text (from a healthcare domain).
- Context:
- It can be used to extract meaningful medical information from unstructured clinical text.
- It can interpret clinical terminologies, symptoms, diagnoses, treatments, and other health-related data.
- It can facilitate the transition from unstructured data to structured data which is easier to analyze and use in Clinical Decision Support Systems.
- It can be a component of a Healthcare Technology Platform, such as Google Cloud Healthcare API, IBM Watson Health, or Microsoft Azure Health.
- It can support Clinical Data Standards and Clinical Terminologies like SNOMED CT, LOINC, ICD-10, and others.
- It can be used by healthcare organizations, clinical researchers, and healthcare software developers.
- It can be used to build applications that better understand and use clinical text.
- It can be composed of Healthcare Entity Extraction APIs, Healthcare Semantic Annotation APIs, Clinical Information Extraction APIs, and Medical Coding APIs.
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- Example(s):
- Counter-Example(s):
- Google Translate API: A general-purpose language translation API.
- IBM Watson Personality Insights API: An API designed to predict personality characteristics from text.
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- See: Online NLP Platform, Clinical Data Standard.