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Patient-Centric Question Answering — NLP-AI4Health Shared Task Overview

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Our overview paper for the Shared Task on Patient-Centric Question Answering at the second NLP-AI4Health workshop (IJCNLP, Mumbai, December 2025) is now in the ACL Anthology.

The task targets inclusive NLP systems for two clinical domains — Head and Neck Cancer (HNC) and Cystic Fibrosis (CF) — and introduces the NLP4Health-2025 Dataset: more than 45,000 validated multi-turn patient–provider dialogues across 10 languages (Assamese, Bangla, Dogri, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu).

How can industry and healthcare engage better?

Thu, 13 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Panelists:

Dr Anand Philip, Medibuddy
Dr Lakshmi Panat, C-DAC Pune
Dr Shefali Karve, Sigtuple
Mr Arun Agrawal, Janithri
Mr Narayana Rao, Salcit Technologies
Mr Raghu Dharmaraju, ARTPARK

Moderator: Mr Arun Zechariah, CMC Vellore

Panel discussion from the first National Symposium on Health Data & AI organised by the Biomedical Informatics Unit (BMIU) at the Christian Medical College Vellore from 17th – 18th March, 2023. More details at the Symposium website: ai.cmcvellore.edu.in

Newly qualified doctors quit after Covid-19 wage cuts

Thu, 03 Sep 2020 04:31:43 +0000

More than 80 percent of newly qualified doctors in an Indian state quit after Covid-19 wage cuts.

The Telegraph.

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