David Talby is a chief executive officer at John Snow Labs, helping healthcare & life science companies put AI to good use. David is the creator of Spark NLP – the world’s most widely used natural language processing library in the enterprise. He has extensive experience building and running web-scale software platforms and teams – in startups, for Microsoft’s Bing in the US and Europe, and to scale Amazon’s financial systems in Seattle and the UK. David holds a PhD in computer science and master’s degrees in both computer science and business administration.
`ai_mask()` is a Databricks SQL function, in Public Preview and HIPAA compliant, that masks entity types named in a SQL array literal. Run against an expert-annotated clinical corpus with the...
Clinical de-identification benchmarks in 2026 put John Snow Labs Healthcare NLP at 0.96 PHI F1 on expert-annotated clinical notes, against 0.91 for Claude Opus 4.8, 0.89 for GPT-5.5, 0.86 for...
Clinical de-identification requires removing the 18 HIPAA Safe Harbor identifier categories, the GDPR Article 9 special categories, and the contextual identifiers that make a patient re-identifiable in a longitudinal record....
Doctors are taught a simple rule early in their training: When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras. In other words, the most common explanation is usually the right one....
A Blueprint for Data Science Pioneers At John Snow Labs, our first company value is simple but weighty: serve heroes. We mean the researchers who stay late refining models that...
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