Natural Language Processing for Unstructured EHR Data in Preventive Screening
NLP extracts screening gaps from clinical notes that structured data alone cannot find.
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Anjali Raghunathan covers clinical ai and decision support in preventive care, advanced biomarker panels and longitudinal lab testing and whole-genome sequencing and genetic risk interpretation for The Baseline Panel.
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