When:
Time: 8:00am PDT, 11:00am EDT, 4:00pm BST, 5:00pm CEST
Duration: 60 minutes
The importance of data science in healthcare is no longer in question. There is an increasing impetus to include broader and more complex data in the work that data science teams do, and in the healthcare setting, with 80% of the relevant data being unstructured – the time spent trying to surface features from these complex data is significant.
The rise of data science in healthcare coincides with the widespread acceptance that more needs to be done to identify and address the social determinants of health. While structured data for these features is sparse, clinicians have been documenting information on these features in unstructured notes as part of their routine history taking since they started practicing. As attention begins to focus on using data science to understand the social determinants of health that drive health inequities – tools that can reduce the data preparation time, enabling more time spent on insight generation are vital.
IQVIA’s suite of NLP APIs provides instant access to secure healthcare-tuned NLP, answering crucial questions in healthcare and life science. In this webinar, we will discuss how NLP APIs enable you to embed NLP into your workflows to:
Surface evidence of Social Determinants of Health
Identify diagnoses from clinical text, within the correct context (negations, family history, hypotheticals)
Discover correlation between social determinants of health and clinical comorbidities.
We will share examples of these being used to solve real problems and demonstrate how you can start to instantly access, navigate and start analyzing complex healthcare data.
You will learn about:
The value of unstructured EMR data
The importance of NLP in generating features from these data
How to incorporate these APIs into your workflows
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 Jansson
NLP API Manager, Linguamatics, an IQVIA companyRyan Jansson
Ryan Jansson joined Linguamatics in 2018 and is the Customer Success Manager for the NLP APIs. Ryan’s background in Bioinformatics and Chemistry coupled with his experience in Technical Support allow him to work directly with customers to turn their wants and needs into actionable changes within the products. In the Customer Success role, his primary focus is ensuring the solutions Linguamatics are building help customers achieve their goals in a simple and efficient manner. A major focus of Ryan’s work revolves around incorporating rule-based NLP into existing Machine Learning workflows. Ryan serves as a liaison between the end users and developers and is continuously exploring how NLP can be integrated into every day workflows to improve customer results.
