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Language and Computing Announces Natural Language Processing Patent

Language and Computing, Inc. (L&C), has announced the issuance of a conceptual world representation of natural language understanding system and method. L&C provides the healthcare industry with the most advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) and knowledge management solutions for physician groups, hospitals and Healthcare Information Technology providers.

L&C's advanced NLP solutions uncover data within electronic medical records and healthcare documentation to automate medical coding and assist with administrative and clinical decision making. The foundation of L&C's technology is built upon the world's largest and most complete medical knowledgebase, allowing unstructured text to be transformed into precise meaning. This user-defined, cutting-edge technology enables physician groups, hospitals and Healthcare Information Technology providers to extract information from healthcare documentation for medical coding, improved decision support, compliance adherence, core measures reporting, business trend analysis and more.

"Over 80 percent of a healthcare organization's information is stored as free-text. With L&C's patented NLP solutions, organizations can extract and reuse discrete data elements that would otherwise sit within those free-text clinical documents. The result is unstructured medical documents that become functional databases and the driving force behind core programs such as medical coding, billing and quality of care initiatives," said Peter Huisman, President and CEO of Language and Computing, Inc.

L&C is the only vendor that offers a patented, customizable, deployable NLP solution to the healthcare industry. L&C's solutions are being used to easily uncover and extract information in electronic medical records and healthcare documentation. L&C's patented technology is allowing healthcare organizations to leverage individual healthcare documents as discrete databases while streamlining efficiencies.

About Language and Computing, Inc.

Language and Computing provides the most advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) solutions to the healthcare industry. Language and Computing's NLP technology is built upon the world's largest and most comprehensive medical knowledge base allowing for unstructured and structured data to be turned into meaningful information. Today their solutions are being leveraged to automate medical coding, improve patient safety and decision support, streamline patient data processes, and map medical vocabularies. Language and Computing is building solutions to improve the business of healthcare, life sciences and the management of knowledge through their advanced NLP technology. Language and Computing is a privately held company headquartered in Bethesda, MD. For more information about Language and Computing call 888.579.0682 or visit their website at www.landcglobal.com.

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