Amazon has introduced a new AI-driven data mining software that will automatically search for and collate information present in hospital records. These may include doctor’s clinical notes, patient records, and other data. Amazon believes that the software called Amazon Comprehend Medical could help health companies reduce expenses while improving patient treatment outcomes.
Nick Farell filed this report on Amazon’s text mining software in Fudzilla:
The technology’s health care application is the newest effort by Amazon to tap into the lucrative market. Amazon officials say the company’s software developers trained the system using a process known as deep learning to recognise all the ways a doctor might record notes.
Matt Wood, general manager of artificial intelligence at Amazon Web Services said: “We’re can completely, automatically look inside medical language and identify patient details,” including diagnoses, treatments, dosage and strengths, “with incredibly high accuracy”.
Taha Kass-Hout, a senior leader with Amazon’s health-care and artificial intelligence efforts, said that during testing, the software performed on par or better than other published efforts, and can extract data on patients’ diseases, prescriptions, lab orders and procedures.
Dubbed Amazon Comprehend Medical the AI “allows developers to process unstructured medical text and identify information such as patient diagnosis, treatments, dosages, symptoms and signs, and more”. Kass-Hout says Amazon Web Services won’t see the data processed by its algorithms, “which will be encrypted and unlocked by customers who have the key”.
