The Health Gazette

Frost & Sullivan, a global leader in growth consulting, presents this award every year to the company that most distinguishes itself by developing breakthrough products with highly sophisticated features and capabilities. The award further recognizes the recipient's successful creation and integration of revolutionary new technology into its existing suite of products.

The natural-language analysing software FreePharma® is capable of analysing the pharmacological information in natural language and transforming it into structured text. The technology accepts information from a range of sources, including voice recognition, e-mail, a keyboard, referral letters, electronic or document-based information. It actually analyses the pharmacological input and then structures the prescriptions into the required format, either in real time or at a later stage in time. T

Introduction to Natural Language Processing and Understanding: Enter Clinical Data the way you want, Capture Clinical Data the way you need. Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Natural Language Understanding (NLU) are emerging technologies for extracting data from free text documents. CARINg member Karen Doyle with Dr. James Flanagan and David Hellman from Language and Computing provided a session to explain some of the basics of these technologies. They also demonstrated use cases for using

Language and Computing (L&C) NV announces that its FreePharma® advanced medication extraction tool has been selected for use by Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, Wisconsin. FreePharma® will be used in an extensive data-mining project to support Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation (MCRF), a division of Marshfield Clinic. MCRF is the largest private not-for-profit medical research foundation in Wisconsin and one of the largest in the nation. L&C’s FreePharma was selected based on a thorough su

Reston, VA, February 12, 2007: Language and Computing, Inc. (L&C), a recognized leader of Natural Language Processing (NLP) solutions in the healthcare industry, has entered into an agreement with Kaiser Permanente’s Southern California Region to launch their co-development of a computer assisted coding (CAC) solution for the Evaluation and Management (“E&M”) coding process at the national Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s (HIMSS) Annual Conference & Exhibition in New Orlea