Applied AI Summit Healthcare

Free online conference | April 14-15, 2026

From Words to Meaning: How LLM Embeddings Are Transforming Healthcare Data

One of the key challenges with Healthcare data platforms is that they now face challenges with meaning, not just data volume. Clinical notes, procedure narratives, and policy documents hold important context that is often lost when reduced to codes, rules, or keyword-based NLP. Healthcare text data is complex and varied, which makes rule-based NLP and keyword searches less effective. In this session, we will explore how LLM-based embeddings are transforming healthcare analytics by turning clinical and operational text into compact, useful data for many applications. Instead of focusing on text generation, we will show how embeddings can help technical teams with tasks like semantic search, finding similar patients, normalizing concepts, and improving analytics. We will cover how to choose embedding models, adapt them for healthcare, use vector indexing, and evaluate results, including how to handle clinical drift and keep semantic accuracy. The session will show that embeddings can be a fast, manageable alternative to generative systems, thereby making analytics more reliable. Attendees will get practical tips and design patterns for adding embeddings to modern healthcare data platforms.

About the speaker

Shraddha Gupta

Data Scientist at The Resource Group

Shraddha Gupta is a Healthcare Data Scientist specializing in applied analytics, cloud data engineering, and informatics-driven decision systems. She works at The Resource Group, an Ascension Healthcare subsidiary, where she designs scalable data platforms and analytics solutions supporting value-based care, operational optimization, and compliance across large health systems. Her work spans cloud-native architectures, advanced analytics, and real-world healthcare data, with a focus on translating complex data into actionable insights that drive measurable impact. Shraddha holds a Master’s degree in Health Informatics and has presented research at national informatics forums.