Comprehend Medical

Jan 11, 2018 · 1 min read
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Amazon Comprehend Medical is a HIPAA-eligible natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning that has been pre-trained to understand and extract health data from medical text, such as prescriptions, procedures, or diagnoses, medication brand and generic names, dosage, strength, duration, date/time and other traits such as negation. The service also extracts private health information (PHI) including medical record numbers, patient names, age, address, location, race and ethnicity, etc.

Example

Input is clinical text that includes patient private information and clinical notes.

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The output includes the entities, relationships between entities and attributes.

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