Communication · Understanding · Impact

Making medical information accurate, accessible, and trusted in the digital era.

COMPREHEND builds scalable, evidence-based systems that improve how patients understand their health, combining clinical research, AI methodology, and infodemiology.

Our Mission

What we do

COMPREHEND aims to study how medical information is created, transformed, disseminated, understood, and trusted in the digital era.

By combining clinical research, AI methodology, and infodemiology, our goal is to build scalable, evidence-based systems that improve patient understanding and ensure medical information remains accurate, accessible, and impactful.

The lab by the numbers

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What We Study

Three lines of inquiry, one shared question

How does medical information actually reach the patients it is meant to serve?

Clinical

Embeds AI-enhanced medical education in real clinical workflows and measures patient outcomes. We study how simplified, personalized content changes comprehension, anxiety, and adherence at the point of care.

Infodemiology

Studies how medical information spreads across digital platforms and who controls the online medical-education ecosystem. We map the creators, channels, and incentives shaping what patients read.

Technical

Builds the computational tooling that underpins the other branches: fidelity metrics, prediction models, and AI pipelines that translate complex medical text into trustworthy, readable language.

Long-Term Impact

Where we are headed

Three commitments that shape the lab's trajectory, each rooted in our mission to make medical information understandable, trustworthy, and impactful.

Health Literacy

Close the health literacy gap in clinical care

Develop and validate scalable AI-driven tools that transform complex medical information into accurate, accessible content for every patient, regardless of language, education level, or background, so that informed decision-making is no longer limited by how a document was written.

Digital Ecosystem

Map and reshape the digital medical information ecosystem

Characterize how medical content moves across modern platforms, who controls its dissemination, and how presentation influences patient trust, so that physicians, institutions, and patients have an evidence base for navigating an increasingly online medical landscape.

Trustworthy AI

Establish the standard for trustworthy AI in patient-facing medicine

Build automated systems that verify the factual accuracy and content fidelity of AI-generated medical text, enabling clinical AI to be deployed safely at scale without requiring expert review of every output.

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