AWS Comprehend Medical Action Block
The AWS Comprehend Medical Action Block uses Amazon's medical NLP service to extract clinical information from unstructured text within your workflows.
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Requires AWS credentials (Access Key ID and Secret Access Key) with permissions for the ComprehendMedical service.
Supported Actions
- Detect Entities - Extract medical entities (medications, conditions, tests, procedures) from clinical text.
- Detect PHI - Identify and extract Protected Health Information from text.
- Infer ICD-10-CM - Map detected conditions to ICD-10-CM medical codes.
- Infer RxNorm - Map detected medications to RxNorm codes.
- Infer SNOMED CT - Map detected medical concepts to SNOMED CT codes.
Configuration
- AWS Credentials - Access Key ID, Secret Access Key, and Region.
- Input Text - Clinical or medical text to analyze (up to 20,000 characters).
- Language - Language of the input text (currently English only).
Use Cases
- Extract structured medical data from doctor notes or clinical reports.
- Automatically detect and redact PHI from medical documents for compliance.
- Map symptoms described in chatbot conversations to standard medical codes.