Jyunmi Hatcher

So a randomized clinical trial in- Hang tight.

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So a randomized clinical trial in nine federally qualified health centers tested a no-cost

fully digital approach to flag likely dementia during routine care.

Clinics embedded two tools into their electronic health records, the Quick Dementia Rating System, or the QDRS, a 10 question patient checklist, and a passive digital marker.

An AI model then scans existing EHR data for dementia risk signals.

Compared with usual care, clinics who use both tools saw 31% higher odds of new Alzheimer's and related dementia diagnosis over 12 months and a 41% higher odds of follow-up diagnostic assessments.

the authors had reported.

The trial enrolled 5,325 patients age 65 plus and delivered results to clinicians inside the EHR inbox, avoiding extra visit time or license fees.

Because the AI runs on data already in the chart, it can scale in lower resource settings, though external validation bias checks are still needed.

The study offers rare RCT evidence that AI plus a brief patient survey can raise real-world detection without burdening clinicians.

Exactly.

And it does sound like this is an application of edge AI or smaller models because it lives within the record system itself.

Now, need to get more details to see how those systems are within any health organization or within the clinic.

But if we can scale down the AI to be attached to that one locale, that does help with things like HIPAA and whatnot.

I I'm, I'm sure they will want test subjects who have very focused minds.

So that puts me out there.

Yeah, yeah.