Malik sajeel Malik Amjad Ali

OCR can read a prescription. It can't tell you what the medication is. That sounds odd, so here's the difference. After OCR, a scanned prescription becomes text: "Amoxicillin 500 mg twice daily for 7 days" That's a real step forward. The page is no longer a flat image. But to...

one diagnosis. Five different ways to write it. Type 2 Diabetes. T2DM. DM2. Diabetes mellitus type II. Type II diabetic. A clinician sees one concept. A software system sees five different strings, which makes healthcare data hard to search, compare and integrate. The...

Reading a document is easy. Understanding its meaning is the real challenge.

While building AI-powered medical document intelligence systems, I’ve been learning that extracting words is only one part of the problem.

Consider this sentence:

“Patient denies chest pain.”

A system might...