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Unstructured Data and Health Care Transformation
Last year ChatGPT exploded on to the scene, kicking off a flurry of technology development with impact across many industries. The technology underlying ChatGPT (known as large language models or LLMs) has actually been around and evolving for several years. And these...
Why NLP should be part of the Digital Quality transformation
This month's blog talks about the importance of unstructured data to achieving digital quality. Unstructured data is clinically valuable and likely here to stay, and NLP can help us embrace it to improve quality. The journey to digital quality is first and foremost a...
Why 2023 will be the watershed year for Health Plan Quality teams transitioning to Digital Quality
This month we are going to discuss what it takes to stand up a digital quality program. Most health plans are somewhere on this transformative journey, either in the planning stages or starting to experiment with potential models. If you are one of these health plans,...
Data Quality Primer
We've seen profound innovations in Natural Language Processing (NLP) over the past 15 years, and we are now seeing those innovations crop up in healthcare, in areas like Value Based Care, Risk Adjustment and Quality Measurement. If you’ve dabbled in NLP for RA or...
Astrata’s First Patent: Abstracting Information from Patient Medical Records
Last month, the US Patent Office granted Astrata's first patent, Abstracting Information from Patient Medical Records, US 11,315,668 B2. This patent describes the Natural Language Processing innovations that power Astrata's Chart Review. This NLP technology surfaces...
Why your Risk Adjustment NLP engine won’t cut it for Quality Measurement
One NLP engine to rule them all? Astrata's president explains why it's not that simple, how an NLP engine optimized for Risk Adjustment can let Quality gaps slip through the system, and why we need robust new technologies that can make Quality an equal player in...
Real World NLP Validation for Quality Measurement
NLP is gaining traction in both payer and provider markets because it can markedly reduce the extraordinary labor costs associated with measuring healthcare quality. I’m often asked about how we validate our NLP systems for measuring quality for programs like HEDIS®...
Catch a Falling Star
From Astrata's Data Science DeskMany health plans could lose Star ratings soon due to a new cutoff-point calculation method. Find out if your plan is at risk, and how you can adapt.Starting with data from measurement year 2022, a proposed change to the way CMS...
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Transforming your Quality operations with clinical data
Astrata's Quality consulting services can help guide your organization through the strategy development process.It all begins with data. If you’re a Health Plan on the journey to quality measurement and intervention across your entire population, the first hill you’ll...