# MyDocSaid: Deep Learning for Patient-Centric Record, Summarization, and Analysis of Medical  Conversations

> **NIH NIH R41** · POTENTIA ANALYTICS INC · 2024 · $284,317

## Abstract

Abstract
Patients retain and recall less than 10% of medical care plans correctly after 5 to 7 days leading directly to
poor comprehension, engagement, compliance, and poor health outcomes. This pervasive and detrimental
dynamic is a significant contributor to large waste in the annual US healthcare spending now exceeding $4
trillion with a conservative estimate of 25% or $1 trillion annually. On the other hand, patients often find
managing their healthcare overwhelming with complex/multiple diagnoses, specialists, and medications
prescribed by different providers with a higher impact on older adults. Typically provider visits frequently
increase with age. For a variety of reasons, aging patients generally experience an increasingly difficult time
remembering and understanding the details of what was discussed during their office visits. Adult children of
aging patients often assist and participate in their parent’s medical care but often can’t accompany them to
provider visits. Unfortunately, existing technology falls short of meeting these patients’ needs. Almost all
existing health recording tools are provider-centric and none are truly and completely patient-centric allowing
patients to record provider interactions with natural language processing (NLP) translation, searchability along
with full patient control, data mobility, education, and real-time artificial intelligence (AI) support.
Potentia Analytics Inc. proposes the development of its patient-centric health recorder app, called MyDocSaid,
to address these issues. MyDocSaid will be designed to provide patients with a secure, fast, searchable, and
extremely user-friendly technology enhancing patient recall, remembering, comprehension, and engagement in
their own health maintenance or restoration. This technology platform will also play a pivotal role in advancing
the dynamic of “shared decision-making”. At-risk populations like senior citizens could benefit from the
MyDocSaid application. Preliminary studies at Potentia Analytics show that the state-of-the-art automatic
speech recognition (ASR) and NLP models will be able to solve this problem and provide transcription,
summary, and keywords from medical conversations. To develop the back-end and AI components, Potentia
Analytics will use transfer learning to fine-tune language models for medical conversations. Demonstrating
feasibility in Phase I requires a working AI pipeline (including ASR/NLP models and knowledge graphs (KG))
that can pass usability tests in a production environment. The specific aims to accomplish this goal are: 1)
Train and implement deep learning models for ASR & NLP tasks. 2) Train/implement KGs and deep learning
models to recognize medical named entities and their relationships. 3) Integrate the data/AI pipeline.
Medical terminologies will be detected using knowledge graphs (KG) trained on medical ontologies and will
provide information about the context of the medical conversations. The fine-tuned AI models a...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10823767
- **Project number:** 1R41NR021089-01
- **Recipient organization:** POTENTIA ANALYTICS INC
- **Principal Investigator:** Nina Marhamati
- **Activity code:** R41 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $284,317
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2024-07-22 → 2025-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10823767

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10823767, MyDocSaid: Deep Learning for Patient-Centric Record, Summarization, and Analysis of Medical  Conversations (1R41NR021089-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10823767. Licensed CC0.

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