David Lareau is CEO of Medicomp Systems, a provider of physician-driven point-of care solutions that fix EHRs. In 2020, the amount of healthcare data created globally was an estimated 2,314 exabytes -- which is an unfathomable amount when you consider a single exabyte is equivalent to one billion gigabytes. While it may be hard to wrap one's head around such a figure, this much is clear: To make sense of such healthcare's ever-growing volumes of data, we need advanced technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools, to enhance user productivity and minimize burdensome searches. One of the most promising AI technologies to help manage huge volumes of data is natural language processing (NLP). NLP is a branch of linguistics, computer science and AI that enables computers to read, understand and structure large volumes of human prose (i.e., natural language).