Use case:
Trials and clinical studies

Find enrrollable patients for clinical trials in the area of neurology, in which the hospital has recognized professionals..

Need

  • Identify the prevalence of Alzheimer’s in a specific center and establish a classification of these patients according to the severity of their symptoms.

  • Carry out a study of the “patient journey” type with patients with the greatest cognitive impairment.

  • Estimate, with the greatest possible certainty, the number of patients who could be candidate for a clinical trial to test a particular drug, based on other symptoms and demographic characteristics.

Opportunity

Plenty of inforamtion, lack of data

Most clinical information in millions of health records is in unstructured format, ie text.

Solution

Natural Language Processing

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Electronic Health Records (EHR) Text Based

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Natural Language Processing

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Structured Database

Result
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  • On the dataset, consultations are made of patients who meet the inclusionn criteria.

  • The center’s physicians decide if the patient is eligible to be recruited for the trial.

  • Data is updated periodically.

Benefits

1.800 patients identified

Identification of 1.800 potential candidateees for the trial.

Patient journey study conducted by hospital researchers.

Characterization of the prevalence of the disease.

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