STAT June 1, 2024
CHICAGO — People can be mightily reluctant to get a colonoscopy for reasons like cost, language barriers, or fear of what the exam might discover. One of the best counters to such barriers are patient navigators who can help resolve most such reasons. The trouble is that there are only so many navigators at a given cancer center. Scientists at Montefiore Einstein wondered if AI could help.
Alyson Moadel-Robblee, a psychologist working on psycho-oncology at Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center, said the navigator team there — as at many hospitals — simply can’t reach all of the nearly 3,000 patients a year who don’t make their colorectal cancer screening.
“Since the pandemic, the demand and load on our healthcare team...
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