AOIC recently worked with a group of Drexel University students from the College of Computing & Informatics on developing an AI tool to potentially streamline medical writing.

The group of students was tasked with using AI to help develop a first draft of a medical manuscript—specifically, creating the methods section, which can be time consuming for writers despite its structured format. The project is complicated by security and confidentiality protocols around the data that AOIC stewards.

Sarah Hummasti, AOIC’s Vice President of Scientific Strategy and Services who heads the medical writing team, explained, “For this project, we focused on phase three clinical trials, and most of those will have a protocol that basically lists everything about how the study was done, but it can be hundreds of pages. For a manuscript, when you want to share it with the scientific and medical community, you need to condense it into something that provides all the key and relevant information.”

Mark Altieri, AOIC’s Vice President of Finance & Technology, said, “The whole idea is that we are exploring the use of AI to help us be more efficient. The first [student] team made tremendous progress, and we are looking forward to continuing development with future student teams.”

Learn more about the project at: Senior Project Builds Real-World AI Tool