Beyond electronic health record data: leveraging natural language processing and machine learning to uncover cognitive insights from patient-nurse verbal communications.
Mild cognitive impairment and early-stage dementia significantly impact healthcare utilization and costs, yet more than half of affected patients remain underdiagnosed. This study leverages audio-recorded patient-nurse verbal communication in home healthcare settings to develop an artificial intelligence-based screening tool for early detection of cognitive decline.
Author(s): Zolnoori, Maryam, Zolnour, Ali, Vergez, Sasha, Sridharan, Sridevi, Spens, Ian, Topaz, Maxim, Noble, James M, Bakken, Suzanne, Hirschberg, Julia, Bowles, Kathryn, Onorato, Nicole, McDonald, Margaret V
DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocae300