Summary

In this chapter, we looked at the concepts of operational efficiency in healthcare and why is it important for providers to pay attention to it. We then looked into two important areas of automation in healthcare – clinical document processing and voice-based applications. Each of these areas consumes a lot of time, as they require manual intervention for processing and an understanding of the clinical information embedded within them. We looked at some common methods of automating the extraction of clinical information from these unstructured data modalities and processing them to create a longitudinal view of a patient, a vital asset to have for the applications of clinical analytics and ML. Lastly, we built an example application to transcribe a clinical dictation using Amazon Transcribe Medical and then process that transcription using Amazon Comprehend Medical to extract clinical entities into a structured row or column format.

In Chapter 5, Implementing Machine...