The US subsidiary of Australian firm Health Language Analytics (HLA) has signed an agreement with California's Public Health Institute (PHI) to use its Horizon machine learning platform to extract and codify cancer data from pathology text reports for the California Cancer Registry (CCR) program.

Health Language Analytics-Global (HLA-Global) is the US arm of HLA, set up in Sydney several years ago by well known computer scientist and information technologist Jon Patrick to commercialise his clinical natural language processing technology.