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title: New Amazon Software Will Increase Hospital Efficiency
description: According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, Amazon is currently selling software that’s capable of extracting health-oriented information from documents and unstructured text.
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# [New Amazon Software Will Increase Hospital Efficiency](https://blog.hocking.edu/new-amazon-software-will-increase-hospital-efficiency)

 Written by [Tim Brunicardi](https://blog.hocking.edu/author/tim-brunicardi) | Jan 24, 2019 2:57:00 PM

According to a recent article in the [Wall Street Journal](https://www.wsj.com/), Amazon is currently selling software that’s capable of extracting health-oriented information from documents and unstructured text.

[Amazon Comprehend Medical ](https://aws.amazon.com/comprehend/medical/)is a natural language processing service that will help cut healthcare costs, improve hospital efficiency, and assist doctors in diagnosing patients much quicker.

### How Does Amazon Comprehend Medical Work?

Amazon Comprehend Medical uses [Natural Language Processing (NLP)](https://www.sas.com/en_us/insights/analytics/what-is-natural-language-processing-nlp.html) models to sort through potentially enormous amounts of health-related data to retrieve valuable information that might have otherwise gone undetected.

### How New is This Technology?

Amazon Web Services is already selling a similar text-analysis type of software that’s currently being used for booking trips and making customer service-oriented businesses more efficient.

### What Tasks Can Amazon Comprehend Medical Perform?

This software can perform several tasks, including:

- Reading & analyzing digitized patient records & clinical notes
- Detecting entities
- Singling out key data points
- Detecting protected health Information
- Helping doctors decipher unstructured medical data
- Helping patients manage their medications
- Helping doctors and patients make more informed decisions
- Suggesting doctor visits

### What Are Some Benefits of Using This Software?

Several benefits to using Amazon's Comprehend Medical software includes:

- Users don't need textual analysis expertise to utilize and maximize Amazon Comprehend Medical’s products
- This software uses deep learning technology that accurately analyzes text
- Health-related Information can be obtained more quickly
- It's designed to work with other Amazon Web Services like [Amazon S3](https://aws.amazon.com/s3/) and [Lambda](https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/).
- There's no minimum fees so users only have to pay for the documents that get analyzed

### How Can I Enter This Field?

Hocking College in Nelsonville, Ohio offers an [Associate of Applied Science in Healthcare Informatics](https://www.hocking.edu/health-information-management) degree program. Applicants can receive the hands-on training they need to go from student to graduate in only two years.

For more information on this program, contact Hocking College’s Healthcare Informatics Program Manager, **Jade Cover**, by email at **[coverj@hocking.edu](mailto:coverj@hocking.edu)** or by phone at **(740) 753-6417.**

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