Named Entity Recognition for Healthcare
Extract essential insights from unstructured medical data using entity extraction.
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Named Entity Recognition (NER) in the healthcare detects and categorizes entities like patient names, medical terms, and various terminologies from unstructured text. This capability elevates data extraction, eases information retrieval, and empowers sophisticated AI systems, establishing it as an essential instrument for healthcare institutions.
Shaip NER is tailored to help healthcare institutions decipher vital details in unstructured data, revealing connections among entities in medical reports, insurance documents, patient reviews, clinical notes, etc. Bolstered by our deep expertise in NLP, we provide insights and tackle complex annotation projects, regardless of their magnitude.
Our Expertise
Named Entity Recognition (NER)
Clinical NER API identifies and extracts medical entities, its context and relationship from large chunks of unstructured clinical data using Deep Learning NLP Models. In the context of healthcare, the API can accurately detect and categorize words or phrases in a text that represent medically significant information.
Identification of problem, anatomical structure, medicine, procedure from medical records such as EHRs; are usually unstructured & require additional processing to extract structured information. This is often complex and requires domain experts from to extract relevant entities.
Categories typically detected by the Medical NER API include:
- MEDICAL_CONDITION: Identifies diseases, injuries, symptoms, or any health complaints.
- MEDICATION: Names of drugs, treatments, or other therapeutic substances.
- ANATOMY: Terms related to body parts, organs, or anatomical structures.
- PROCEDURE: Identifies medical interventions, tests, or operations.
- TEST_RESULT: Highlights outcomes from medical tests.
- PERSON: Identifies individuals involved in the patient’s care or personal life.
- TIME: Identifies time-related references, such as durations, frequencies, or specific dates.
Examples
1. Clinical Entity Recognition
A vast volume of medical information is present in health records, predominantly in an unstructured manner. Medical entity annotation facilitates the transformation of this unstructured content into an organized format.
2. Attribution
2.1 Medicine Attributes
Nearly every medical record contains details about medications and their characteristics, a crucial aspect of clinical practice. It’s possible to pinpoint and mark the different attributes of these medications following established guidelines.
2.2 Lab Data Attributes
Laboratory data in medical records often include their specific attributes. We can discern and annotate these attributes of the lab data in line with established guidelines.
2.3 Body Measurement Attributes
Body measurements, often encompassing vital signs, are typically documented with their respective attributes in medical records. We can pinpoint and annotate these various attributes related to body measurements.
3. Oncology Specific NER
In addition to general medical Named Entity Recognition (NER) annotations, we can delve into specialized domains such as oncology and radiology. For the oncology domain, the specific NER entities that can be annotated include: Cancer Problem, Histology, Cancer Stage, TNM Stage, Cancer Grade, Dimension, Clinical Status, Tumor Marker Test, Cancer Medicine, Cancer Surgery, Radiation, Gene Studied, Variation Code, and Body Site.
4. Adverse Effect NER & Relationship
In addition to pinpointing and annotating primary clinical entities and their relationships, we can also highlight the side effects associated with specific drugs or procedures. The outlined approach involves:
- Tagging adverse effects and the agents responsible for them.
- Determining and documenting the relationship between the adverse effect and its causative agent.
5. Assertion Status
Beyond pinpointing clinical entities and their relationships, we can also categorize the Status, Negation, and Subject pertaining to these clinical entities.
Why Shaip?
Dedicate Team
Data scientists spend over 80% of time in data preparation. With outsourcing, the team can focus on development of algorithms, leaving the tedious part of extracting NER to us.
Scalability
ML models require collection & tagging large chunks of datasets, which require companies to pull in resources from other teams. We offer domain experts who can be easily scaled.
Better Quality
Dedicated domain experts, who annotate day-in & day-out will – any day – do a superior job in comparision to a team, that accommodate annotation tasks in their busy schedules.
Operational Excellence
Our data quality assurance process, tec validations, & multi-stage QA, helps us deliver quality that ofen exceeds expectations.
Security with Privacy
We are certified for maintaining the highest standards of data security with privacy to ensure confidentiality
Competitive Pricing
As experts in curating, training, and managing teams of skilled workers, we can ensure projects are delivered within budget.
Availability & Delivery
High network up-time & on-time delivery of data, services & solutions.
Global Workforce
With a pool of onshore & offshore resources, we can build and scale teams as required for various use cases.
People, Process & Platform
With combination of a global workforce, robust platform, & operational processes, Shaip helps launch most challenging AI.
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