This white paper from Akrivia Health introduces Natural Language Processing (NLP) as a branch of AI that automates the analysis of human language to unlock insights from unstructured data. With 70–80% of patient information embedded in clinical notes, NLP supports healthcare by enabling clinical documentation, coding, decision-making, and psychiatric illness prediction . Using models like BERT, NLP extracts meaning through entity recognition, contextual classification, and relationship mapping. Applied to NHS records, it identified patients with difficult-to-treat depression, showcasing its value in diagnosis, treatment optimization, and research. By combining AI with human oversight, NLP enhances data-driven healthcare while safeguarding privacy.

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