Posted On: Dec 8, 2021
Amazon Comprehend Medical is a HIPAA-eligible natural language processing service that uses machine learning to extract health data from unstructured medical text accurately and quickly. Much of health data today is in free-form medical text like doctors’ notes, clinical trial reports, and patient health records. Manually extracting the data is a time consuming process that requires broad use of synonyms and nonstandard medical terms. As a result, data often remains unusable in large-scale analytics which is needed to advance healthcare and life sciences industry.
Today Amazon Comprehend Medical added support for SNOMED CT (Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine -- Clinical Terms), an ontology to provide customers with comprehensive clinical healthcare terminology to encode medical conditions, medications, and procedures, among other medical concepts. You can now automatically map clinical data from unstructured text to SNOMED CT, ICD10 or RxNorm ontologies with a simple API call, to help accelerate research and clinical application building. To get started with Amazon Comprehend Medical's new SNOMED CT API, you can read this blog.
We are also excited to announce that Amazon Comprehend Medical has reduced pricing by up to 90% and introduced new tiered, volume based pricing to address large workloads. The Comprehend Medical price reductions will be effective December 8th, 2021 in all regions where Comprehend Medical is available and will be automatically reflected in your AWS bill. For more information on the Region specific price reductions and new tiered pricing, please visit the pricing page here.
Learn more about Amazon Comprehend Medical here.