AI-enabled Psychiatric Chart Summarization

This project was born from the Medventions Atlantic Fellowship where, as a part of the psychiatry team, Chloe Robichaud shadowed Dr. Abraham Nunes to identify any problems that stood in the path of innovation and optimization within the field of psychiatric care. As a psychiatrist in the Mood Disorders Clinic in the NSHA Central Zone, Dr. Nunes works with patients who suffer from difficult-to-treat psychiatric disorders. These psychiatric patients need longitudinal monitoring, personalization of therapy, and early relapse detection to get better care outcomes. To treat these patients effectively, psychiatrists must conduct a comprehensive chart review before seeing each patient. Within this chart review, they must provide immense detail, including all relevant aspects of a patient’s history that provide a rationale for behaviour and/or thought processes. To innovate within the field of psychiatry, we must first help psychiatrists automate their chart summarization, minimizing the amount of time needed to prepare for each patient. Our project, SynopsAI, sought to fill that gap by developing a solution that would allow each patient to have a “running” summary generated using their entire medical/psychiatric history and then continually updated with the notes from each follow-up session.

Faculty Supervisor:

Abraham Nunes

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Partner:

Springboard Atlantic Inc.

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

Dalhousie University

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