There are many companies state they do natural language processing (NLP) for electronic medical records (EMRs). However, I see two major problems with this claim. Most companies aren’t doing NLP This is only a problem if the company isn’t delivering on the promise of NLP. The technology is used to look through human-generated free-text content. This blog is an example of this. An Excel spreadsheet, is not free-text content. Using …
Big Data helps the move from Fee for Service to Capitation-based payments
The Fee For Service model for medical payments is the predominant payment scheme in the United States. In the Fee for Service model, physicians are incentivized to provide more treatments regardless of effectiveness. There is no link between the recipient of services and payment for those services. The recipient of the medical services, the patient, does not directly participate in the fee transaction. They …