IBM announced that BJC Healthcare (BJC) and Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM) are using IBM business analytics software to quickly extract key data from more than 50 million documents in medical records, speeding up research to ultimately provide better care for patients worldwide.
BJC Healthcare, one of the largest nonprofit healthcare organizations in the U.S., and the WUSM Center for Biomedical Informatics are collaborating to ensure researchers get answers to critical research questions from large sets of unstructured genomic and clinical data such as clinical notes, admission/discharge summaries and diagnostic reports.
Like most institutions, BJC and WUSM faced the challenge that existing biomedical informatics resources were disjointed, frequently redundant, and only available to a small fraction of researchers. As a result, millions of patient notes and records sat unavailable in separate clinical databases and the sheer volume of information resulted in research assets that were underutilized. All this content contained valuable information, but there was no easy way to get to it.
"With IBM Content Analytics software, BJC Healthcare and Washington University researchers are now able to find fast answers to critical research questions using the same technology that powers the IBM Watson deep question and answer system," said Ken Bisconti, Vice President, IBM Enterprise Content Management Strategy.
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