NCI designated cancer centers reduces time to treatment for diagnosed patients by 5 days using machine learning and natural language processing
Summary:
NCI-Designated Cancer Centers have implemented Digital Reasoning’s deep analytics care management software to automate processing pathology and radiology reports. The software helps speed up patient's journey from diagnosis to treatment by discovering, classifying and prioritizing cancer cases for optimal follow-up. It augments health care providers by supporting the workflows, triage and extracting key points from documents.
Problem:
"High-quality cancer care is a labor-intensive process with oncologists, radiologists, pathologists, nurse navigators, patient care coordinators, and registrars. Across the clinical workflow, artificial intelligence (AI) can augment the effectiveness of the clinical care team by invisibly assisting with the repetitive, routine tasks behind-the-scenes.