Top 10 Tech Trends: Natural Language Processing

Colin Banas, M.D., CMIO at VCU Health System in Richmond, Va., probably sums up the sentiments of many physician informaticists when he says, “I do have high hopes for natural language processing, because the sacred element of the note is to help us deliver care and help our colleagues deliver care from. And if NLP is part of that equation because it preserves the patient narrative, then I’m all for it, as part of a long-term solution that can help me and everyone else.”