Simplification of Medical Texts: Personalisation of Texts to User Groups
In my research, I explore the gap between medical text understanding between patients and doctors and bridge it with the help of artificial intelligence. Poor health literacy is associated with a higher risk of the development of a disease, poor diet, bad habits, hospitalisation, and premature death. According to the American Medical Association, poor health literacy is a stronger predictor of a person’s health than age, income, employment status, education level, and race. I hope that my research will improve medical text accessibility, and understanding a treatment/healthy lifestyle adherence as a result for multiple categories of people.