Stories from the Clinical Coal-Face: Practical uses of Text Mining, in Life Sciences and Healthcare


What are the challenges facing life sciences and healthcare organisations, where text analytics can play a part? This is one of the key questions that I ask myself and others regularly. There is so much buzz at the minute around big data, real world data, healthcare informatics, wearables; but what is really working, and what is just hype?
One of the ways we get input on this question is, of course, meeting our customers and hearing about their successes. Linguamatics hosts two user group meetings every year, and our European Spring Text Mining Conference is coming up rapidly. Held over 3 days in April, the conference provides scientists and clinicians interested in text mining to come for hands-on training workshops, round table discussions, and a day of talks from both Linguamatics staff and our customers.
This year, our customer speakers encompass a wide range of use cases, spanning the pipeline of discovery, development, and delivery of therapeutics: