3 papers
cs.CL2026
SocialLM: Social Signal Processing of Patient-Provider Communication using LLMs and Contextual Aggregation
Manas Satish Bedmutha, Feng Chen, Andrea Hartzler +2
Effective patient-provider communication is difficult to assess at scale. We examine whether large language models (LLMs) can track 20 social behaviors from clinical transcripts wi…
cs.CL2026
Depression Detection at the Point of Care: Automated Analysis of Linguistic Signals from Routine Primary Care Encounters
Feng Chen, Manas Bedmutha, Janice Sabin +3
Depression is underdiagnosed in primary care, yet timely identification remains critical. Recorded clinical encounters, increasingly common with digital scribing technologies, pres…
cs.CY2024
Toward Automated Detection of Biased Social Signals from the Content of Clinical Conversations
Feng Chen, Manas Satish Bedmutha, Ray-Yuan Chung +6
Implicit bias can impede patient-provider interactions and lead to inequities in care. Raising awareness is key to reducing such bias, but its manifestations in the social dynamics…