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AI Services for the Medical Space

Now let's talk about AI services for the medical space. We've seen Amazon Transcribe, but there is a version of Amazon Transcribe that is specifically geared for the medical space.

Amazon Transcribe Medical

Amazon Transcribe Medical allows you to automatically convert medical-related speech into text. The reason why this is specialized is because it has HIPAA compliance, which means that you should be able to use it in regulated environments.

How it works:

  • Your audio goes through Amazon Transcribe Medical
  • You get text output that specializes in medical terminologies such as:
    • Medicine names
    • Procedures
    • Conditions
    • Diseases

Options available:

  • Real-time transcription with a microphone
  • Upload files for batch transcription

Use cases for Amazon Transcribe Medical:

  • Create voice applications that enable physicians to dictate medical notes
  • Transcribe phone calls that report on drug safety and side effects

Amazon Comprehend Medical

Once you have text from the audio, you can do even more things. You can use Amazon Comprehend Medical, which is again a version of Amazon Comprehend geared for the medical space.

What Comprehend Medical does:

  • Detects and returns useful information from your text
  • Understands physician's notes, discharge summaries, test results, and case notes
  • Uses natural language processing
  • Can detect protected health information (PHI) to make sure you're not sharing information that you shouldn't

Data sources and features:

  • Data can come from Amazon S3
  • Has real-time feature to analyze using Kinesis Data Firehose
  • Can be combined with Amazon Transcribe to get a complete flow from audio all the way to comprehension

Example in Action

Here's how it works in practice: Audio that has been transcribed by Amazon Transcribe gets passed into Comprehend Medical. Comprehend Medical is actually able to understand the full relationships of all the words.

For example, from a phrase like "40-year-old mother":

  • It can understand the age
  • It can understand the profession

For medicine information, it's able to understand:

  • The name
  • The dosage
  • The frequency

So from text that has been very unstructured because it's just text, we're able to create a very structured pattern thanks to Comprehend Medical.

That's it - you just need to know these services at a high level and what they do.