MedSynth: Realistic, Synthetic Medical Dialogue-Note Pairs
This addresses the scarcity of open-access, privacy-compliant training data for medical documentation automation, though it is incremental as it focuses on dataset creation rather than a new method.
The authors tackled the problem of automating medical documentation to reduce physician burnout by introducing MedSynth, a synthetic dataset of over 10,000 dialogue-note pairs covering 2000+ ICD-10 codes, which significantly improved model performance in generating notes from dialogues and vice versa.
Physicians spend significant time documenting clinical encounters, a burden that contributes to professional burnout. To address this, robust automation tools for medical documentation are crucial. We introduce MedSynth -- a novel dataset of synthetic medical dialogues and notes designed to advance the Dialogue-to-Note (Dial-2-Note) and Note-to-Dialogue (Note-2-Dial) tasks. Informed by an extensive analysis of disease distributions, this dataset includes over 10,000 dialogue-note pairs covering over 2000 ICD-10 codes. We demonstrate that our dataset markedly enhances the performance of models in generating medical notes from dialogues, and dialogues from medical notes. The dataset provides a valuable resource in a field where open-access, privacy-compliant, and diverse training data are scarce. Code is available at https://github.com/ahmadrezarm/MedSynth/tree/main and the dataset is available at https://huggingface.co/datasets/Ahmad0067/MedSynth.