ETL & AMP: Not Just Another TLA (three letter acronym) - It’s How you Effectively Mine your Unstructured Big Data to Get Things Done!
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With a background such as mine - medicine/ information technology/ government/ military - you need to know your audience, and ensure acronyms are appropriate.
In healthcare alone, DOA can mean several things: degenerative osteoarthritis, date of arrival, drug of abuse, dead on arrival, etc. Most of which I REALLY don’t want to see in a healthcare analytical report for Rheumatology.
Although ETL is no exception, it is widely used in the world of healthcare now as “Extract Transform and Load” and - unless you are speaking to a someone in the area of pulmonary and respiratory diseases - it will seldom get confused with “expiratory threshold load” which helps determine respiratory muscle efficiency. Then there is AMP, which in medicine is most commonly known as a adenosine monophosphate a vital component in all living cells. But for Linguamatics Health users, AMP is an acronym that is vital in it’s own right and stands for Asynchronous Messaging Pipeline.
Here at Linguamatics we are grateful to have some very talented folks that can explain our technological world in a way that is (sometimes) less technical. Alex Richard-Hoyling ( Senior Solutions Developer) explained how he helps ensure reliable data extraction in large healthcare systems via the Linguamatics Community. Below, I take the subject a step further to cross the chasm of where tech meets med.