Three reasons why NLP will go mainstream in healthcare in 2023

A natural language processing expert explains why he feels the technology's kinks have been ironed out, its ROI has been proven and the timing is right for healthcare to take advantage of information-extraction tools. Natural language processing is a subdiscipline of artificial intelligence – and one that can be of great use in healthcare – that digs out clinical nuggets from all the free text in electronic health records and data warehouses. Marty Elisco, CEO of Augintel, a healthcare NLP company, believes that NLP will go mainstream in 2023 for three reasons: The kinks have been ironed out, the value has been proven and the timing is right. Healthcare IT News spoke with Elisco to get him to elaborate on these reasons and help healthcare CIOs and other health IT leaders understand why 2023 might just be the year for NLP.