Ease of adoption of clinical natural language processing software: An evaluation of five systems

Kai Zheng, V. G. Vinod Vydiswaran, Yang Liu, Yue Wang, Amber Stubbs, Özlem Uzuner, Anupama E. Gururaj, Samuel Bayer, John S. Aberdeen, Anna Rumshisky, Serguei Pakhomov, Hongfang Liu, Hua Xu

Abstract: Highlights•The first study to assess the ease of adoption of the state-of-the-art clinical NLP systems.•Five clinical NLP systems were carefully examined by four expert evaluators and eight end user evaluators.•The results show that the adoptability of clinical NLP systems is generally unsatisfactory.