Reflections on HIMSS 2023: AI in Healthcare and Social Determinants of Health mnielsen2@uk.i… May 12, 2023 - 12:02pm Provider Government Calum Yacoubian The HIMSS 2023 conference has come and gone, leaving us with a lot to think about in terms of the future of healthcare technology. As I reflect on my experience at the conference, there are a few key takeaways that stand out to me.  First and foremost, it's clear that AI is now squarely in the spotlight in healthcare. Just about every vendor offering at HIMSS 2023 was utilizing some form of AI, whether it be image analysis, natural langu ..read more

ChatGPT, Large Language Models and NLP – an Informatics Perspective in Healthcare mnielsen2@uk.i… March 22, 2023 - 10:10am Provider Payer Government Calum Yacoubian My previous blog talked about the opportunities and downsides to ChatGPT for clinicians. Accuracy, bias and privacy were key considerations identified when using ChatGPT. With that being said, do I think ChatGPT replaces other forms of NLP? No or at least, certainly not any time soon.  In this blog, I approach ChatGPT and Large Language Models (LLMs) from a more pragmatic informatics perspective.  The effective use of Na ..read more

ChatGPT, Large Language Models and NLP – a clinical perspective mnielsen2@uk.i… March 3, 2023 - 4:00pm Provider Payer Academic Medical Center Government Calum Yacoubian This is part one of a two-part series exploring the potential opportunities and risks of using ChatGPT and large language models in healthcare, this blog will focus on the clinical perspective while the second blog will look closer at the technology and considerations for using in a healthcare setting.  For nearly a decade now, I have been focused on making routinely collected data in healthcare more powerful, actionable ..read more

What could ChatGPT mean for Medical Affairs? carina.jenkins… February 9, 2023 - 8:57pm Pharma Biotech Hywel Evans The remarkable adoption of ChatGPT since its launch, and the subsequent activity from Microsoft, Google and others in response, has unleashed a wave of excitement and interest in these potentially game changing technologies. Unlike some technology innovations we’ve seen in the past, this is something anyone, in any walk of life, whether in a personal or professional context can start using immediately. What does this mean for Medical Affairs? We don’t know yet how this story plays ..read more

Drug Safety Landscapes – Painting the Picture with Natural Language Processing mnielsen2@uk.i… November 29, 2022 - 5:19pm Pharma Biotech Jane Reed Pharmaceutical companies have a problem: there are a plethora of free insights at their fingertips from widely available sources – like scientific papers, clinical trial databases, regulatory reviews and drug labels, or internal legacy reports – that can help them improve drug safety, but this valuable information is often buried in these documents as unstructured text.  Understanding the safety landscape around any drug, adverse event (AE), o ..read more

Want to Improve Clinical Care? Embrace Precision Medicine Through Deep Phenotyping mnielsen2@uk.i… December 9, 2022 - 3:43pm Payer Academic Medical Center Calum Yacoubian Natural Language Processing, or NLP, is rapidly becoming a must-have capability for healthcare due to a myriad of factors, not least of which is the deluge of unstructured EMR data that must soon be accessible to patients per the Cures Act Final Rule. By scanning a wide range of health care information and rapidly surfacing insights from unstructured text, NLP is a powerful tool to help payers and providers stay in complianc ..read more

How Healthcare NLP Helps Payers Improve Risk Adjustment  mnielsen2@uk.i… November 16, 2022 - 4:04pm Payer Calum Yacoubian As value-based care arrangements proliferate throughout the healthcare industry, accurate risk adjustment has become more crucial for payers to ensure they are properly compensated for assuming greater financial risk for patients.   In many value-based contracting agreements, and notably Medicare Advantage, health plans receive set monthly payment amounts to manage the care of their members. Those monthly payment amounts are determined by risk scores that ar ..read more

Did you miss it? The healthcare data revolution continues carina.jenkins… October 14, 2022 - 12:17pm Provider Payer Calum Yacoubian It has been over 1 week since the potentially seismic shift in information blocking took place on October 6 2022. Under continued evolution of the 21st Century Cure’s Act, the definition of Electronic Health Information (EHI) has extended from just variables defined within United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) to all electronic patient information. Patients can now request their entire medical record be accessible, which opens the doors to far bette ..read more

Three recent lessons from applying text mining in Medical Affairs   mnielsen2@uk.i… August 25, 2022 - 2:31pm Pharma Biotech Hywel Evans In our work with a wide range of medical affairs teams, we have delivered data, insights and reports using text mining approaches to speed up project delivery and unlock new findings. Here are three key lessons we’ve learnt recently:   Start with the question – During a recent project, we began by capturing key questions and assessing them to understand which would be best suited to automation with Natural Language Processing (NLP), which were best ..read more

Standing on the shoulders of giants: NLP for effective literature landscapes mnielsen2@uk.i… August 3, 2022 - 9:40am Pharma Biotech Jane Reed Most research stands on the shoulders of giants, building on the work of others to inform current research and decisions. However, the vast and ever-expanding scale of scientific and biomedical literature means it is challenging to comprehensively assess the state of knowledge on a particular topic. Within pharma and healthcare, scientists and clinicians are looking to technological innovations, to provide effective strategies for reviewing literature ..read more