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Generative AI can identify social determinants of health data in notes, study finds

January 12, 2024

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Large technology firms like Microsoft, Google, Oracle and Amazon have invested heavily in generative AI over the past year. Many firms have honed in on using the tools, which can create original text and images, to lessen administrative burden for providers, through use cases like automatically documenting conversations between patients and doctors.

But using large language models to extract social determinants of health data is another area of potential promise for the technology, according to the study published in npj Digital Medicine.

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