EHRKit: A Python Natural Language Processing Toolkit for Electronic Health Record Texts

Understand

The Electronic Health Record (EHR) is an essential part of the modern medical system and impacts healthcare delivery, operations, and research.

• Unstructured text is attracting much attention despite structured information in the EHRs and has become an exciting research field.
• The success of the recent neural Natural Language Processing (NLP) method has led to a new direction for processing unstructured clinical notes.
• In this work, we create a python library for clinical texts, EHRKit.