Episode 18: IQVIA’s Dr. Calum Yacoubian on empowering payers in risk, quality, and health equity with clinical NLP

Calum Yacoubian, M.D., director of NLP health care strategy at IQVIA, joins us for the latest episode of RISE Radio, our podcast series that focuses on issues that impact policies, regulations, and challenges faced by health care professionals responsible for quality and revenue, Medicare member acquisition and experience, and/or social determinants of health. In this 21-minute podcast, Dr. Yacoubian discusses natural language processing (NLP) and why it’s vital to use in health care for risk adjustment, quality, social determinants of health, and health equity. About Calum Yacoubian, director of NLP health care strategy, IQVIA Dr. Calum Yacoubian is director of health care product & strategy at linguamatics, IQVIA. He is a medical doctor who trained and practiced in the UK before moving into medical technology. He has worked with NLP in clinical data for seven years and is passionate about the potential for data to drive improved patient outcomes. Dr. Yacoubian’s work has focused on the use of automatic deep phenotyping from the EHR to support a variety of use cases, from population health to rare disease diagnosis. He works closely with users in leading academic medical centers–and other areas such as diagnostic labs, to ensure IQVIA’s NLP toolkit remains at the cutting edge of augmented intelligence. About IQVIA IQVIA is a leading global provider of advanced analytics, technology solutions, and clinical research services to the life sciences industry. IQVIA NLP unlocks and transforms data, at scale, from bench to bedside. Its leading natural language processing platform is used by 19 of the top 20 pharma, as well as health care organizations and government, to uncover previously hard to reach information or replace manual extraction.

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Episode 18: IQVIA’s Dr. Calum Yacoubian on empowering payers in risk, quality, and health equity with clinical NLP is an episode from RISE Radio by Ilene MacDonald.

This episode is 21:16 long.

This episode was published on Oct 24, 2023.

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