Posted on 09/25/19
DENVER
– September 25, 2019 – Wolters Kluwer, Health announced today it has
expanded its portfolio of real-world artificial intelligence (AI) solutions
with the addition of a clinical natural language
processing (cNLP) solution that enables healthcare organizations to
unlock the value of unstructured clinical information. The solution, part of
the Health Language
platform, supports extraction of patient data found in free-text physician
notes and patients’ electronic health records to improve the quality of data
across payer and provider organizations.
Unstructured
data currently represent as much as 80% of documentation in patient records,
creating notable challenges for healthcare organizations in their quest to
fully access, search and analyze vast amounts of information from a growing
number of disparate sources. Current estimates suggest that the amount of data
the healthcare industry amasses doubles every three years, and by 2020, it is projected to double
every 73 days. Found in a variety of forms captured throughout
the care cycle, such as medical history, progress notes, imaging and laboratory
narratives, critical information in free text form remains largely unused due
to resource-intensive manual processes required to extract it.
The Health Language cNLP solution
delivers the industry’s most comprehensive approach to identifying and using
unstructured information and is easily integrated into health IT environments
through application programming interfaces (APIs). Supporting extraction,
conversion and mapping of free text to industry standards, the application
ensures interoperability and meaningful exchange of data assets that have the
power to provide deeper analytics insights.
“Over the
last 10-plus years, we’ve worked with more than 300,000 clinicians across
numerous EMR platforms capturing how they search and document problems and
diagnoses at the point-of-care and we’ve combined that expertise with common
words associated with labs and drugs—all of which is now completely integrated
within cNLP,” said Karen Kobelski, Vice President and General Manager, Clinical
Surveillance, Compliance & Data Solutions at Wolters Kluwer, Health.
Notably,
the Health Language cNLP
offering will enable payers, providers and health IT vendors to identify and
extract over a million different ways problems, diagnoses, labs and drugs are
represented within the medical record and resolve them to specific codes to
power risk adjustment, analytics, quality measures and other data quality
initiatives.
Health
Language is part of Wolters Kluwer’s Clinical Surveillance, Compliance &
Data Solutions business unit, combining unmatched industry expertise with advanced
terminology tools and finely-tuned matching algorithms powered by machine
learning. Wolters Kluwer clinical experts—each offering an average of more than
25 years of healthcare terminology experience—partner with healthcare
organizations to optimize use of data assets for improving outcomes, containing
costs and delivering better care.
About
Wolters Kluwer
Wolters Kluwer
N.V. (AEX: WKL) is a global provider of professional information, software
solutions, and services for physicians, nurses, accountants, lawyers, tax
specialists, and finance, audit, compliance, and regulatory sectors.
The company
provides expert solutions – a combination of deep domain knowledge with
specialized technology and services – that help professionals navigate change,
solve complex problems, and deliver impact in their respective fields.
Headquartered
in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands, Wolters Kluwer holds market-leading
positions in 40 countries globally, represents customers across 180 countries
and employs 19,000 people worldwide. In 2017, it reported annual revenues of
€4.4 billion.
Wolters Kluwer
provides trusted clinical technology and evidence-based solutions that engage
clinicians, patients, researchers and students with advanced clinical decision
support, learning and research and clinical intelligence. For more information
about our solutions, visit http://healthclarity.wolterskluwer.com and follow us on
LinkedIn and Twitter
@WKHealth.
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Media
Molly
McManus
Sr. Marketing Operations Manager, Health Language
Wolters Kluwer | Clinical Software Solutions
(720) 446-2564
molly.mcmanus@wolterskluwer.com
Sr. Marketing Operations Manager, Health Language
Wolters Kluwer | Clinical Software Solutions
(720) 446-2564
molly.mcmanus@wolterskluwer.com
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