When:
Time: 6:30am PDT, 9:30am EDT, 2:30pm BST, 3:30pm CEST
Duration: 360 minutes
Natural language processing is a powerful technology that is being applied in new and innovative ways across healthcare. Join our in-person seminar series to hear about the advances in NLP and machine learning techniques being applied within healthcare, pharma and government organizations. Learn about new applications for leveraging NLP to unlock key insights from unstructured text to improve patient outcome, safety assessment, brand awareness, and more.
The seminar will be focusing on topics such as precision medicine, risk adjustment, population health as well as generating high-quality data and insights for drug discovery, safety, regulatory and medical affairs teams.
The agenda will include presentations from client organizations using IQVIA NLP, as well as product updates and overview from IQVIA. There will also be opportunities for knowledge sharing, hands-on learning, and time to network with IQVIA NLP experts, customers and other seminar attendees.
Agenda Main Topics:
The final agenda will be available in the weeks ahead but use cases will cover:
- Providers & Health Systems, Payers & Insurance Companies
- Pharma discovery, safety, regulatory, and medical affairs
Who should attend:
- Current customers – we would love to say hi in person and show you our latest solutions
- Researchers, scientists, product teams, clinicians, or anyone struggling to get the information you need from volumes of unstructured records and texts – we can provide solutions and innovation
- If you’re a data scientist, technical architect, executive in innovation, analytics quality or have an enterprise data role working with lots of unstructured data or looking for NLP solutions - this is for you.
Let’s get personalized – how IQVIA NLP drives precision medicine in Healthcare - Calum Yacoubian (IQVIA)
For true precision medicine, the importance of deep phenotyping is absolute. With increasing volumes of unstructured data vitally important to understand both the genetic basis of disease, but also the severity and progression of disease, repeatable means to create highly accurate curated features from these unstructured data is essential. In this session we will talk about how IQVIA NLP provides a repeatable and transparent means of accurate computational phenotyping that drives precision medicine.
Spanning the gap: connecting data scientists to unstructured information - Ryan Hulscher (IQVIA)
Around 80% of a data scientists time is spent cleaning and preparing their data before it is ready to be processed. For unstructured information, this figure could be even higher when you factor in the lack of schemas, term ambiguity, inconsistent formatting and terminologies, etc. In the session, we will show how IQVIA NLP products can be used to obtain data from free text that has been cleaned, structured and normalized, allow users to spend their time on what matters: solving high-value business problems using the available tools and data.
Improving risk adjustment and predictive analytics with AI augmented chart review - Calum Yacoubian (IQVIA)
Natural Language Processing is NLP is a key component of augmented intelligence in medical chart review, driving predictive analytics and risk stratification in healthcare. From government programs – such as Medicare Advantage Risk Adjustment – where chart review is necessary to ensure accurate capture and reporting of comorbid conditions, to predicting disease progression, there are many applications that are benefitted by bootstrapping chart review with AI. In this session – we will discuss how updates to the IQVIA NLP portfolio are helping healthcare organizations drive efficiencies in these areas.
Empower pharma decision-making with NLP from molecule to market - Hywel Evans (IQVIA)
From bench to bedside, researchers and clinicians need to base decisions on the best possible view of data. As 80% of data resides in unstructured sources, rapid effective access to the knowledge buried in text documents is essential. Natural Language processing (NLP) allows organizations to transform unstructured text into actionable structured data that can be rapidly visualized and analyzed, for decision support. We will present how NLP provides a powerful solution to these challenges, with customer use cases ranging from disease understanding to medical affairs.
Speakers
Calum Yacoubian
Director NLP Healthcare StrategyCalum Yacoubian
Dr. Calum Yacoubian is Director of Healthcare Product & Strategy at Linguamatics, IQVIA. He is a medical doctor who trained and practiced in the UK before moving into medical technology. He has worked with Natural Language Processing in clinical data for over 5 years and is passionate about the potential for data to drive improved patient outcomes.
Ryan Hulscher
Product Manager, IQVIA NLPRyan Hulscher
Ryan Hulscher joined Linguamatics as an Application Scientist in 2018. He began using text mining and NLP while doing bioinformatics work during his graduate research. Ryan enjoys applying NLP techniques to diverse data sources to extract valuable insights and help customers solve a wide range of challenges. He holds a PhD in Molecular Biophysics from Johns Hopkins University.
Hywel Evans
Director, NLP for Medical Affairs & CommercializationHywel Evans
Hywel Evans leads the development, application and delivery of IQVIA’s (formerly Linguamatics) NLP offerings within Medical Affairs and Commercial Pharma teams and has been with IQVIA for over 6 years. He also leads the NLP Insight Hub offering, which transforms and integrates information from a wide range of structured and unstructured data sources into a single convenient platform. Hywel was previously a Principal leading Real World Technology & Analytics for the APAC region based in Singapore, leading a team of data scientists and consultants in the design & delivery of analytics solutions, and the development of real-world data assets and collaborations. Hywel has consulting and technology experience across life sciences, healthcare, financial services and consumer industries. He has expertise in building analytics and data teams, delivering data driven strategies, designing and executing behavioral insights and stakeholder engagement initiatives. Prior to joining IQVIA, Hywel was a consultant at Booz&Co and EY. He holds a Master’s degree (MEng) in Engineering from the University of Cambridge.
Kaitlyn Whyte
Linguamatics Application ScientistKaitlyn Whyte
Kaitlyn Whyte is a Linguamatics Application Scientist who provides NLP solutions for extracting insights from unstructured customer data, scientific literature, clinical databases, real world evidence, and more. She ensures client success by providing application support throughout the entire customer journey.
