AI Transcription and Summary in Veteran Narrative Medicine Program

Overview

Development stage

PilotSource: b) Pilot – The use case has been deployed in a limited test or pilot capacity.

High-impact designation

Not high-impactSource: c) Not high-impact

Impact justification

Not reported

Start date

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Withheld from public reporting

Not reported

Mission

Topic area

Health and Medical

Operational functions

Translation and transcription, Clinical and medical Derived by keyword rules; see methodology

Problem the AI is intended to solve

1) The MyLife MyStory program tends to be time intensive, often requiring about four hours of the interviewers' time per patient, which limits the number of Veterans who can receive the program. 2) The narratives that are produced in MyLife MyStory are sometimes lengthy. When provided with an AI-generated summary, busy clinicians accessing the narrative in a patient's chart may come away with a clearer understanding of the patient's story.

Expected benefits

1) Greater efficiency in the MyLife MyStory program with preserved acceptability, allowing for more Veterans to enjoy and benefit from the program. 2) Due to the inclusion of patient-approved, AI-generated summaries, busy clinicians accessing MyLife MyStory narratives in patients' charts will more often come away with a clear understanding of the patients' experiences through their stories

System outputs

1) Transcriptions of patient interviews, generated using natural language processing. 2) An AI-generated summary of each patient's narrative.

Technology

AI classification

Natural language processingSource: Natural Language Processing: AI that processes, interprets, and shares information in human language.

System name(s)

Not reported

Custom-developed code

No

Public source code

Not reported

Sourcing

How it was built

Purchased from vendorSource: a) Purchased from a vendor

Vendor (as reported)

Not reported

Vendors (standardized)

None on the standard list

A vendor is the supplier named by the agency. It does not identify the underlying model or AI technology.

Data and privacy

Involves PII

Not reported

Privacy Impact Assessment

Not reported

Authorization to Operate

Not reported

Demographic features

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Training and evaluation data

Not reported

Federal Data Catalog

Not reported

Governance

0 of 8 minimum-practice questions answered. A blank answer means the agency reported nothing; it does not mean the practice is absent.

Potential impacts and how they were identified

Not reported