Human and machine intelligence combine to address healthcare issues in India
13-Jan-15, Financial Express
Hitachi has launched a solution which will help extract precisely designated information from EMR. Ichiro Iino, MD, Hitachi India talks about the features of this solution, its advantages in the Indian scenario and the company’s plans to market it in India, in conversation with Lakshmipriya Nair.
Tell us about the technology you have developed to extract precisely designated information from electronic medical records (EMR). How does it work?
EMR is made up of medical attributes with set terms and concepts. The terms can be subject complaints, medical history of patient and family history, lab/ diagnostic studies, treatment options, allergies, etc. We’ve developed medical attribute classifiers for specific disease or disorder which were evaluated over de-identified dataset in CLEF 2014 challenge.
Let’s take an example, consider the ready availability of a patient’s record anytime-anywhere which is highly useful for doctors to make timely and effective treatment decisions. This is realised by having EMRs and a well-connected network. Now, moving one step further, with huge amounts of data available for analysis from EMRs, we can come up with applications to support clinical decision and this technology helps to realise such applications.