IBM and Nuance Communications have been working together since October 2010 to develop systems that will automatically extract and convert discrete clinical data from clinician-dictated narratives into information that can be used to bring a more evidence-based approach to patient care.

Dr. Nick van Terheyden, Nuance's chief medical information officer, will show prototype tools for delivering advanced analytics that could offer rapid access to a variety of data with corresponding links to underlying data in radiology. Artificial intelligence has the potential to pull relevant medical data from a vast repository for timely point-of-case utilization.