LANGUAGE AND COMPUTING TO PROVIDE NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY TO OCHSNER HEALTH SYSTEM
RESTON, VA--(Marketwire - February 20, 2008) - Language and Computing, Inc., providing the most advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) and knowledge management solutions to the healthcare industry, announced today that Ochsner Health System has selected Language and Computing's NLP technology product suite, TeSSI® for Medicare Risk Adjustment reporting. Ochsner Health System employs 600 physicians and has 33 facilities located throughout southeast Louisiana. Language and Computing's solu... Comments (0)
Source: Language and Computing, Inc and Ochsner Health System
Posted: Tuesday, March 11, 2008

LANGUAGE AND COMPUTING PARTNERS WITH REVOLUTION HEALTH TO IMPROVE PATIENT HEALTH AND WELLNESS
Reston, Virginia – March 11, 2008 – Language and Computing, Inc. (L&C), providing the most advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) and knowledge management solutions to the healthcare industry, today announced that RevolutionHealth.com has chosen L&C’s technology product suite, TeSSI®, for its Medicine Chest™. Revolution Health creates products and services that empower people by putting them at the center of the healthcare system. The cornerstone of the company is RevolutionHealth.com, w... Comments (0)
Source: Language and Computing, Inc and Revolution Health.com
Posted: Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Language and Computing Receives the Frost & Sullivan "Healthcare IT & Life Sciences Product of the Year" Award
Frost & Sullivan, a global leader in growth consulting, presents this award every year to the company that most distinguishes itself by developing breakthrough products with highly sophisticated features and capabilities. The award further recognizes the recipient's successful creation and integration of revolutionary new technology into its existing suite of products. ... Comments (0)
Source: Language and Computing
Posted: Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Natural-language Process for Medical Prescriptions and Knowledge Discovery
The natural-language analysing software FreePharma® is capable of analysing the pharmacological information in natural language and transforming it into structured text. The technology accepts information from a range of sources, including voice recognition, e-mail, a keyboard, referral letters, electronic or document-based information. It actually analyses the pharmacological input and then structures the prescriptions into the required format, either in real time or at a later stage in time. T... Comments (0)
Source: International Hospital Equipment & Solutions, October 2002
Posted: Saturday, March 24, 2007

Introduction to Natural Language Processing by Language and Computing
Introduction to Natural Language Processing and Understanding: Enter Clinical Data the way you want, Capture Clinical Data the way you need. Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Natural Language Understanding (NLU) are emerging technologies for extracting data from free text documents. CARINg member Karen Doyle with Dr. James Flanagan and David Hellman from Language and Computing provided a session to explain some of the basics of these technologies. They also demonstrated use cases for using... Comments (0)
Source: Dr. James Flanagan
Posted: Saturday, March 24, 2007

L&C’s FreePharma Medication Extraction Tool Selected for Data Mining Project by Marshfield Clinic
Language and Computing (L&C) NV announces that its FreePharma® advanced medication extraction tool has been selected for use by Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, Wisconsin. FreePharma® will be used in an extensive data-mining project to support Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation (MCRF), a division of Marshfield Clinic. MCRF is the largest private not-for-profit medical research foundation in Wisconsin and one of the largest in the nation. L&C’s FreePharma was selected based on a thorough su... Comments (0)
Source: Language and Computing
Posted: Saturday, March 24, 2007

Automated E&M Coding Solutions by Language and Computing
Reston, VA, February 12, 2007: Language and Computing, Inc. (L&C), a recognized leader of Natural Language Processing (NLP) solutions in the healthcare industry, has entered into an agreement with Kaiser Permanente’s Southern California Region to launch their co-development of a computer assisted coding (CAC) solution for the Evaluation and Management (“E&M”) coding process at the national Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s (HIMSS) Annual Conference & Exhibition in New Orlea... Comments (0)
Source: Freepressrelease
Posted: Saturday, March 24, 2007

LinkCode: Automated Healthcare Coding
Language and Computing: Ontology Assisted Solutions LinkCode is an application that accurately extracts E&M codes from physician notes using the CMS rules. LinkCode can process multiple documents in seconds, saving time and resources, while improving accuracy with full audit trails. LinkCode reduces the volume of routine work for outpatient coders, leaving experienced coders more time for complex cases and other chart abstractions. ... Comments (0)
Source: Language and Computing: Ontology Assisted Solutions
Posted: Tuesday, March 20, 2007