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This publication is co -written with Javier Beltrán, Ornela Xhelili and Prasidh Chhabri de Aetion.
For decision makers in medical care, it is essential to obtain an integral understanding of patient trips and health results over time. Scientists, epidemiologists and bioestadistics implement a wide range of consultations to capture variables of complex and clinically relevant patients of real world data. These variables often involve complex sequences of events, combinations of occurrences and not occurrences, as well as calculations or detailed numerical categorizations that precisely reflect the diverse nature of the experiences of patients and medical stories. Expressing these variables as natural language consultations allows users to express scientific intention and explore the total complexity of the patient's timeline.
AENA He is a leading evidence software provider of the real world of decision to biofarma, payers and regulatory agencies. The company provides comprehensive solutions to health clients and life sciences to quickly and transparently transform real world data in real world.
In the nucleus of the Aetion Evidence Platform (AEP) are the measures: logical construction blocks used to capture complex patient variables flexibly, which allows scientists to customize their analysis to address the nuances and challenges presented by their questions research. AEP users can use measures to build patient cohorts and analyze their results and characteristics.
A user who asks a scientific question aims to translate scientific intention, such as “I want to find patients with a diagnosis of diabetes and a posterior metformin filling”, in algorithms that capture these variables in real world data. To facilitate this translation, Ation developed an assistant of measures to convert the expressions of the natural language of the scientific intention of users into measures.
In this publication, we review how Ation is using amazon Bedrock to help optimize the analytical process to produce evidence of the real world of decision of decision and allow users without experience in data science to interact with complex data sets of the real world.
amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that provides access to basic high performance models (FMS) of the main new and amazon companies through a unified API. It offers a wide range of FMS, which allows you to choose the model that best suits its specific use case.
Ation technology
Aetion is a software company and medical care services that uses the science of causal inference to generate evidence of the real world about the safety, effectiveness and value of medicines and clinical interventions. Aetion has been associated with the majority of the 20 main biopharma, leading payers and regulatory agencies.
Ation provides a deep scientific experience and technology to life sciences, regulatory agencies (including FDA and EMA), payers and customers of the health technology evaluation (HT) in the US. , Canada, Europe and Japan with analysis that can achieve the following:
- Optimize clinical trials by identifying target populations, creating external control weapons and contextualization of configurations and populations underrepresented in controlled environments
- Expand access to industry through changes of labels, prices, coverage and form decisions
- Perform security and effectiveness studies for medicines, treatments and diagnoses
Aetion applications, including discovery and substance, are driven by the AEP, a central longitudinal analytical engine capable of applying a rigorous causal inference and statistical methods to hundreds of millions of patient trips.
Aetiai, the set of generative generative capacities, is integrated into the AEP and applications. The measurement assistant is a Aetionai characteristic in Sustanciate.
The following figure illustrates the organization of Aetion services.
Measurement assistant
Users create analysis in Ation, they suffer to convert real world data into the real world of decision of decision. The first step is to capture variables of real world data patients. Substantial offers a wide range of measures, as illustrated in the following screenshot. Measures can often be chained to capture complex variables.
Suppose the user is evaluating the profitability of a therapy to help negotiate drug coverage with payers. The first step in this analysis is to filter the negative cost values that may appear in the claims data. The user can ask Aetionai how to implement this, as shown in the following screenshot.
In another scenario, a user may want to define a result in their analysis such as the change in hemoglobin on successive laboratory tests after the start of treatment. A user gives measures a question expressed in natural language and receives instructions on how to implement this.
General solution of the solution
Patient data sets are ingested in the AEP and transform into a longitudinal format (timeline). AEP refers to this data to generate cohorts and execute analysis. Measures are the variables that determine the conditions for the entry of cohorts, inclusion or exclusion, and the characteristics of a study.
The following diagram illustrates the architecture of the solution.
The measurement assistant is a microservice deployed in a Kubernetes in the AWS environment and is accessed through an API Rest. The data transmitted to the service are encrypted using the security of the transport layer 1.2 (TLS). When a user asks through the assistant user interface, Supremia initiates a request that contains the question and previous history of messages, if available. The measures wizard incorporates the question in a quick template and calls amazon's rock rock API to invoke Anthrope's Claude 3 haiku. The indications provided by the user and the requests sent to the amazon mother rock API are encrypted using TLS 1.2.
Ation chose to use amazon Bedrock to work with large language models (LLM) due to its wide selection of multiple suppliers models, security posture, extensibility and ease of use. It was discovered that Claude 3 haiku llm of Anthrope was more efficient in execution time and cost than the available alternatives.
The measures wizard maintains a local knowledge base on the AEP measures of scientific experts in Ation and incorporates this information in their responses. These railings ensure that the service returns valid instructions to the user and compensates for logical reasoning errors that the central model could exhibit.
The measurement assistant application template contains the following information:
- A general definition of the task that the LLM is executing.
- AEP documentation extracts, which describes each type of covered measure, its types of input and output, and how to use it.
- A context learning technique that includes semantically relevant questions and answers in the notice.
- Rules to condition the LLM to behave in a certain way. For example, how to react to unrelated questions, maintain safe confidential data or restrict their creativity in the development of non -valid AEP configurations.
To optimize the process, Medies Assistant uses templates composed of two parts:
- Static – The instructions were corrected for use with user questions. These instructions cover a wide range of well -defined instructions for the measurement assistant.
- Dynamic – The questions and answers are dynamically selected from a local knowledge base based on semantic proximity to the user's question. These examples improve the quality of the answers generated by incorporating similar questions previously asked previously and answered to the application. This technique models a small -scale knowledge base, optimized and in process for an augmented generation pattern (RAG) of recovery.
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The generation and maintenance of the group of questions and answers involve a human in the loop. The experts in the field continuously prove the assistant measures, and the pairs of questions and answers are used to continually refine it to optimize the user experience.
Results
Our implementation of Aotionai's abilities allows users who use natural language consultations and prayers to describe the scientific intention in algorithms that capture these variables in real world data. Users can now turn the questions expressed in natural language into measures in minutes instead of days, without the need for specialized support and training personnel.
Conclusion
In this publication, we cover how Aetion uses AWS services to optimize the user's route to define the scientific intention to execute a study and obtain results. The measures wizard allows scientists to implement complex studies and iterate in study designs, receive orientation instantly through responses to fast consultations and natural language.
Aetion continues to refine the knowledge base available for the measurement assistant and expand the innovative capabilities of generative in its set of products to help improve the user experience and, ultimately, accelerate the process of converting data from the real world in evidence of the real world.
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About the authors
Javier Beltrán He is a senior automatic learning engineer in Ation. His career has focused on natural language processing, and has experience in the application of automatic learning solutions to several domains, from medical care to social networks.
Ornela Xhelili He is an automatic learning architect in Ation. Ornela specializes in natural language processing, predictive analysis and mlops, and has a master's degree in statistics science. Ornela has spent the last 8 years building ai/ML products for new technology companies in several domains, including medical care, finance, analysis and electronic commerce.
PRASIDH CHHABRI He is a product manager in Ation, leading the evidence platform of Ation, Core Analytics and ai/ML capabilities. It has extensive experience by building quantitative and statistical methods to solve problems in human health.
Midish Vaystin He is an architect of solutions with amazon Web Services. Mikhail works with Healthcare Life Science customers and specializes in data analysis services. Mikhail has more than 20 years of experience in the industry that covers a wide range of technologies and sectors.
