Andy Boyd fights to reduce high readmission rates for patients with heart failure

BHIS assistant professor Andrew Boyd‘s work on Patient Narr, a project that aims to fight high readmission hospital rates is the focus of a recent UIC News piece.

Boyd leads the project with professor Barbara Di Eugenio from the College of Engineering, who is an expert in Natural Language Processing (NLP) software and text summarization that generates easy-to-read narratives summed up from select sources.