AI Amplified: AI in Medical Language Processing with Tim O’Connell

S1E9: AI in Medical Language Processing: Transforming Unstructured Clinical Data, with Tim O'Connell, MD, CEO and Co-Founder of emtelligent On this episode, host Dr. Heather Bassett welcomes Tim O'Connell, radiologist, CEO and founder of emtelligent, discussing the challenge that sparked his company: the impossibility of thoroughly reviewing clinical records at the volume modern healthcare demands. Tim explains how this need led him to build a Medical Language Model that transforms unstructured clinical data into precise, structured outputs for payers, health systems, and life sciences organizations. Tim and Heather explore how deep learning and transformer models have revolutionized medical language processing, achieving 98-99% accuracy on clinical data extraction tasks. Tim reveals why determinism, scalability, and security are critical differentiators in production environments, and why human-in-the-loop systems remain essential for healthcare AI that clinicians will trust and adopt. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen