Canary
Alzheimer's drugs only work if you catch it early, but people aren't screened until symptoms are obvious -- so patients who would benefit most get missed.
Core trick
Pairs a numeric EEG risk score with a visit-note reader that filters false alarms before escalating patients to clinicians.
Description
Alzheimer's drugs only work if you catch it early, but people aren't screened until symptoms are obvious -- so patients who would benefit most get missed. Canary catches them earlier by screening an EEG they already took, raising a risk flag, then reading the visit note to filter out false alarms before escalating anyone to a doctor.
README excerpt
<p align="center"> <img src="assets/canary-logo.png" alt="Canary" width="620" /> </p> <h1 align="center">Canary</h1> <p align="center"><b>An EEG + clinical-note cognitive-decline <i>triage</i> agent.</b><br> Not a diagnosis — a screening layer that decides who a clinician should look at first.</p> <p align="center"><i>A canary doesn't diagnose the mine, it just tells the crew who to check first.</i></p> --- **Why now:** Alzheimer's treatment now only works if you catch it early — but the tools to catch it early haven't caught up. Canary makes an existing, underused EEG signal safe to act on by cross-checking it against the visit note, so a clinician knows who to look at first. Canary takes two independent, imperfect sources of evidence about one patient — a numeric **EEG risk flag** (from a real, small, non-LLM classifier) and a free-text **clinical visit note** (Abridge-style, mocked & disclosed) — and an agent reasons about whether they **corroborate or contradict** each other, then drafts the referral / triage artifact a clinic would actually use. Built for the *Abridge × Anthropic × Lightspeed — Agents for Healthcare Clinics* hackathon. The honest PPV math and what was deliberately *not* built are covered below. ## The demo in one sentence **Two patients, the same elevated EEG flag, opposite recommendations — because the note decides.** One note reports a memory complaint (→ **escalate**, refer); the other explains the flag away with poor sleep and daytime sedat