Natural Language Processing

NLP Tool Flags Signs of Depression, Anxiety in Healthcare Workers

October 27, 2023 - Researchers at New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine have demonstrated that a natural language processing (NLP) tool can effectively detect pandemic-related signs of anxiety and depression in healthcare workers’ conversations with their therapists, according to a study published this week in the Journal of Medical Internet...

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Washington University in St. Louis Launches AI for Health Institute

by Shania Kennedy

The McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis has established the AI for Health Institute, which will bring together clinical researchers and artificial intelligence experts...

Breaking Down 3 Types of Healthcare Natural Language Processing

by Shania Kennedy

Healthcare generates massive amounts of data as patients move along their care journeys, often in the form of notes written by clinicians and stored in EHRs. These data are valuable to improve health outcomes but are often difficult to...

ChatGPT Achieves High Accuracy in Clinical Decision-Making Tasks

by Shania Kennedy

Mass General Brigham researchers demonstrated that ChatGPT can achieve “impressive accuracy” in clinical decision-making, with increased performance as the tool is fed more clinical...

Researchers Validate NLP Tool to Extract SDOH from Clinical Notes

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from the Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health (IU Fairbanks School) and Regenstrief Institute have validated the generalizability and portability of a natural...

Experts: Medical Community Must Help Shape Use of LLMs in Healthcare

by Shania Kennedy

In a special communication published this month in JAMA, researchers discussed the creation and adoption of large language models (LLMs) in healthcare, asserting that the process must be actively...

NLP May Help Flag SDOH Needs for Alzheimer’s, Dementia Patients

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers have developed a natural language processing (NLP) algorithm to identify social determinants of health (SDOH) for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) patients using...

ChatGPT Accurately Answers Ophthalmic Knowledge Assessment Questions

by Shania Kennedy

In a research letter published last week in JAMA Ophthalmology, researchers demonstrated that ChatGPT-4 provided correct responses to 84 percent of a sample of multiple-choice questions from...

NLP Model Enhances COVID-19 Treatment Through Message Classification

by Mark Melchionna

Emory University School of Medicine and Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) researchers used natural language processing (NLP), a type of artificial intelligence (AI), to enhance COVID-19...

ChatGPT, Generative AI Show Promise as Complex Diagnostic Tools

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) demonstrated that generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, such as ChatGPT, may serve as promising assistive tools for...

How NorthShore Uses AI, NLP to Tackle SDOH in the Emergency Department

by Shania Kennedy

Identifying and tackling social determinants of health (SDOH) are crucial aspects of any health equity strategy. But establishing how best to capture patients’ SDOH needs and develop interventions in the clinical setting remains a...

ChatGPT Fails American Urological Association Self-Assessment Exam

by Shania Kennedy

A study published last week in Urology Practice demonstrated that ChatGPT performed poorly on the 2022 American Urological Association (AUA) Self-assessment Study Program exam, indicating that the tool...

NYU Large Language Model Forecasts Hospital Readmissions, Length of Stay

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers at New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine have developed a large language model (LLM) capable of predicting multiple clinical outcomes, including readmissions, and the tool...

ChatGPT Fails American College of Gastroenterology Assessment Tests

by Shania Kennedy

A study published this week in the American Journal of Gastroenterology demonstrated that ChatGPT-3 and ChatGPT-4 failed the 2021 and 2022 multiple-choice self-assessment tests for the American College...

HCA Healthcare Launches AI-Enabled Ambient Documentation Partnership

by Shania Kennedy

HCA Healthcare and Augmedix have announced a partnership aimed at accelerating the development of artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled ambient documentation solutions for acute care...

ML, NLP Identifies Digital Voice Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s

by Shania Kennedy

Artificial intelligence can help identify subtle changes in a patient’s voice and speech patterns, which may help clinicians diagnose cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease before...

SDOH Associated with Increased Risk of Suicide Among US Veterans

by Shania Kennedy

In a recent study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers found that nine social determinants of health (SDOH) extracted from structured and unstructured EHR data using natural language processing...

ChatGPT Capable of Answering CBME Microbiology Questions

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers writing this month in Cureus have found that ChatGPT is capable of answering first-order and second-order questions in line with the competency-based medical education (CBME) curriculum for...

ChatGPT Provides Accurate Information on Cancer Myths, Misconceptions

by Shania Kennedy

In a study published last week in the Journal of The National Cancer Institute (JNCI) Cancer Spectrum, researchers from the University of Utah found that large language model (LLM)...

NLP Tools Predict Cancer Survival Using Routinely Collected Data

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers have found that natural language processing (NLP) tools can predict the survival of patients with cancer using their initial oncologist consultation document without additional data,...

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