Clinithink Blog Granularity in clinical AI: Finding the right answer requires attention to detail

The essential value of unstructured notesTo achieve the highest-value insights in healthcare AI, we must analyze the information customers care most about. This means going beyond electronic medical record (EMR) data and looking at free-text clinical documents, such as handwritten or hand-typed notes from a provider. Because these words and numbers are unstructured data-unable on its own to be easily analyzed by technology the way digital data can be-there's a high tendency for free-text content to be misunderstood by most AI systems, if not overlooked altogether.