BRIDGEND, Wales--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Clinithink, a world-leader in clinical natural language processing (CNLP) technology, today announced that it received the 2013 MediWales Innovation Judges’ Award. The Judges’ Award recognizes the development of innovative technology and outstanding contribution to the Life Science Sector. Clinithink received this award for the significant success they have achieved in the US healthcare marketplace with their innovative CLiX technology.
“We are honored to be recognized by MediWales with the 2013 Innovation Judges’ Award,” stated Clinithink CEO, Dr. Chris Tackaberry. “At Clinithink we will continue to develop innovative technology to deliver true understanding of clinical language. By unlocking unstructured healthcare data and making it actionable we enable our partners and their customers to drive improvements in performance, patient outcomes and enhance workflows.”
Clinithink’s CLiX Online technology is the first of its kind to be made available to the healthcare industry as an interactive service to structure and encode unstructured clinical narrative. By utilizing the CLiX solution, healthcare IT vendors and healthcare providers can maximize the value of the data they already produce to increase the accuracy of analytics solutions, improve care coordination and gain deeper insight for clinical decision support at the point of care.
About MediWales
MediWales is the Welsh Life Sciences Forum. MediWales is owned by its members and managed through a board of member-elected non-executive directors. Members are largely made up of academics, businesses and clinicians - along with business support organizations and research centers.
MediWales promotes and supports its members with events; publications - both quarterly MediWales Review and the biannual UK Life Science Industry magazine; the website; and government lobbying.
About Clinithink
With operations in the US and UK, Clinithink is the healthcare industry’s preferred clinical natural language processing (CNLP) provider. Clinithink’s CLiX technology enables healthcare providers and solution vendors to extract knowledge from the clinical data trapped in the free text of discharge summaries, clinical notes, and other documents. Using patent-pending algorithms and CNLP to add structure to unstructured clinical data, Clinithink’s CLiX technology enables the indexing, mapping and analyzing of clinical narrative to output rich structured data encoded to medical ontologies such as SNOMED CT, ICD-9, ICD-10 and RxNorm. For more information, visit www.clinithink.com or email us at sales@clinithink.com.
Register now to use CLiX Online at www.clinithink.com/clix-online/.
