Unlocking the Value of Unstructured Data in CCDs with the Medical Language Engine by emtelligent  ·  6 minutes

While emtelligent’s Medical Language Engine NLP platform converts medical free-text into usable structured data, emtelligent has gone a step further, and created unique software features that allow the linking of both the unstructured and structured data in CCDs.

CCDs: Their History and Context Around Use

‘Continuity of care document’ (CCD) is a generic term for a type of computer-generated, patient-specific document that contains information about that patient’s health. Present-day CCDs are based on the HL7 Consolidated Clinical Data Architecture (C-CDA), which is an attempt to create a standards-based means of patient information exchange.