Using artificial intelligence tools to develop plain language summaries of HEOR and RWE publications: an interview with David McMinn, Sorcero

29 Sep 2023

Written by David McMinn (Sorcero)

Artificial intelligence and machine learning Health economics Health equity Interviews ISPOR Patient engagement Peek behind the poster Real-world evidence Stakeholder engagement

Plain language summaries (PLS) are short, peer-reviewed summaries of scholarly journal articles written in non-technical language. By fostering diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility, PLS are emerging as an important tool to help researchers, including those in the field of HEOR and real-world evidence (RWE), to communicate their work to a wider audience. Here David McMinn, Lay Summaries Practice Leader at Sorcero, discusses the importance of PLS in communicating medical research and describes the role of artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool to create PLS of complex research. David is presenting the poster ‘Seeing it in the Flesch: Comparing Readability Between...