Dr. Tim O’Connell

Dr. Tim O’Connell is the founder and CEO of emtelligent, a Vancouver-based medical NLP technology solution. He is also a practicing radiologist, and the vice-chair of clinical informatics at the University of British Columbia.

Posts by Dr. Tim O’Connell

MedCity Influencers, Health Tech

How Modern Natural Language Processing Is Improving Healthcare

Clinical-grade NLP is in the earlier stages of adoption, but as healthcare organizations continue to struggle with unstructured data and clinician burnout, we will see a gradual increase in its use. The AI and deep learning models being developed today in conjunction with medical NLP will be used in healthcare five, 10 and 20 years from now. These technologies will be so tightly integrated into EHRs that they’ll be almost invisible to end users.