Health Fidelity

Health Fidelity is an early stage healthcare data structuring company that specializes in using natural language processing (NLP) and ontologies for advanced healthcare analytics. Initial products target electronic medical record (EMR) adoption.
The adoption of EMR systems has been promoted within the United States as a critical step toward more effective and affordable healthcare. Yet, of the small practices that represent 83% of US physicians, only 13% had adopted EMR systems as of 2010. Leading causes for adoption failure include a massive physician productivity loss of up to 25% on transition to EMR and high system cost.
Slow patient encounter documentation represents a primary cause of EMR-based productivity loss and frustration. EMR encounter notes incorporate two fundamental changes from pre-EMR workflow: A transition to typing and the addition of coded data entry. All certified EMR systems require structured content to meet meaningful use guidelines. The physician has the double burden of entering critical information twice, once as narrative text and once via dropdown menus or checkboxes to code from medical terminologies. A physician adopting an EMR not only loses the preferred pre-EMR input modality (usually pen and paper or dictation), but takes on the double burden of representing data in both typed text and machine-readable formats.
Health Fidelity is a private company. It made its early work public through presentations by the company founder and CEO at NASA and LifeScienceFest in 2011. The initial product, as demonstrated at NASA, utilizes natural language processing and ontologies to lower the barrier for data capture into an EMR.

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