The new Amazon service uses machine learning to read, search and extract data from medical records

Amazon Comprehend Medical is the latest service launched by technology giant Jeff Bezos. A software based on artificial intelligence, especially in machine learning, which is responsible for reviewing the medical records of patients looking for information extract quickly, automatically and in an organized manner to help health professionals.

"With Amazon Comprehend Medical, you can collect fast and accurate information, such as medical condition, medication, dose, strength and frequency from various sources such as doctors 'notes, clinical trial reports and patients' medical records, "they explain on their website. The Wall Street Journal I will move it forward.

The new service is part of the division responsible for most infrastructure supporting large technology platforms and research projects around artificial intelligence, Amazon Web Services.

"We will not be able to see the data"

A tool with this degree of badysis, designed to deal with sensitive texts such as medical records, can create reluctance in terms of confidentiality and security. Something they know about in the company of Bezos, for this reason, they are cured in good health and they advance to suspicions: Amazon Web Services, they say, will not be able to see the processed data for his algorithms.

Amazon wants this service to reach improve patient care and speed up clinical investigations through this understanding and badysis of perceptions and relationships that are "trapped" in medical texts. Consideration, even, admission notes to the hospital of a sick person.

Currently, this historical badysis is done with the help of a set of custom software rules, but if something changes in them, for example a clbadification code, it may affect the rest. and prove fatal. The data could be lost and even displayed incorrectly. What, according to Amazon, this does not happen with automatic learning and models capable of reliably understanding medical information extracted from unstructured texts.

At Amazon Comprehend Medical is accessible, they explain, via a simple API call. And no machine learning experience is required, nor complicated rules to write. There are no models to train either. With this tool, Amazon is trying to enter for the first time in the health sector.