Automation of doctor's letters in NRW
The healthcare system in Germany is confronted with ongoing challenges, particularly a shortage of personnel and an overabundance of information. An innovative approach from North Rhine-Westphalia could help here.
Around 150 million doctor's letters are created in Germany every year, a process that takes up both resources and valuable working time. The newly developed “doctor's letter generator” integrates algorithms and artificial intelligence, in particular natural language processing (NLP), to systematically extract information from texts and provide it in a structured form.
The potential applications of this technology are diverse: In addition to optimizing processes such as quality assurance and statistical compilation, the technology can also create new doctor's letters in a significantly reduced time frame.
This innovative project, tested as part of the KI.NRW flagship project SmartHospital.NRW at the University Medical Center Essen, is the result of cooperative research efforts in which the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS and other renowned institutions from NRW are involved .
For a more detailed analysis of the possibilities of natural language processing in a medical context, the white paper “Natural Language Processing in Medicine” from Fraunhofer IAIS offers extensive insights.
Source: Frauenhofer IAIS; KI.NRW; SmartHospital.NRW; University Medicine Essen
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