Amazon Comprehend Medical is a HIPAA-eligible

Natural Language Processing, usually shortened as NLP, is a branch of artificial intelligence that deals with the interaction between computers and humans using the natural language. [Source: Medium]

(NLP) service that uses

Machine learning (ML) is the scientific study of algorithms and statistical models that computer systems use to perform a specific task without using explicit instructions, relying on patterns and inference instead. It is seen as a subset of artificial intelligence. [Source: Wikipedia]

to extract health data from medical text–no

Machine learning (ML) is the scientific study of algorithms and statistical models that computer systems use to perform a specific task without using explicit instructions, relying on patterns and inference instead. It is seen as a subset of artificial intelligence. [Source: Wikipedia]

experience is required.

With a simple API call to Amazon Comprehend Medical you can quickly and accurately extract information such as medical conditions, medications, dosages, tests, treatments and procedures, and protected health information while retaining the context of the information. Amazon Comprehend Medical can identify the relationships among the extracted information to help you build applications for use cases like population health

Big data analytics is the often complex process of examining large and varied data sets, or big data, to uncover information -- such as hidden patterns, unknown correlations, market trends and customer preferences -- that can help organizations make informed business decisions. [Source: TechTarget]

, clinical trial management, pharmacovigilance, and summarization. You can also use Amazon Comprehend Medical to link the extracted information to medical ontologies such as ICD10-CM or RxNorm to help you build applications for use cases like revenue cycle management (medical coding), claim validation and processing, and electronic health record creation.

Amazon Comprehend Medical is

A fully managed machine learning service provides developers and data scientists with the ability to build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models quickly. [Source: AWS]

, so there are no servers to provision, and no

Machine learning (ML) is the scientific study of algorithms and statistical models that computer systems use to perform a specific task without using explicit instructions, relying on patterns and inference instead. It is seen as a subset of artificial intelligence. [Source: Wikipedia]

models to build, train, or deploy. You pay only for what you use, and there are no minimum fees and no upfront commitments.