Skin tone assessments are critical for fairness evaluation in healthcare algorithms (e.g., pulse oximetry) but lack validation. Using prospectively collected facial images from 90 hospitalized adults at the San Francisco VA, three independent annotators…
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Hari Prasad, Founder and CEO of Yosi Health
Virtual care is transforming the way healthcare is delivered, enabling practices to reach patients well beyond the confines of the traditional exam room. From routine follow‑ups and…
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Electronic health records (EHRs) contain rich longitudinal information for clinical decision-making, yet LLMs struggle to reason across patient timelines. We introduce TIMER (Temporal Instruction Modeling and Evaluation for Longitudinal Clinical Records), a method to…
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Hospital readmission is a key quality metric, yet post-discharge interventions often yield variable results. In the first large-scale randomized evaluation of causal machine learning in a health system, we assessed whether a novel model…
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What You Should Know:
– A recent data brief from the American Hospital Association (AHA) and the ASTP/ONC examines the trends in predictive AI adoption, evaluation, and governance using data from 2023 and 2024. The…
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Background: To bridge the gap between clinical guidelines and suboptimal stroke management in rural settings, we conducted an implementation trial using evidence-based, mobile health–enabled strategies to empower primary care providers in rural China. The…
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Lakewood Health joined the program as one of four early adopters in spring 2024. It started with a third-party evaluation of its cybersecurity policies and tools, and that led to the identification of several…
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In the spirit of “no good deed goes unpunished,” insurance giant Cigna Healthcare creates a new reimbursement policy that adds additional scrutiny for certain high-level evaluation and management codes, which could lead to those…
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What You Should Know:
– ArcaScience, a Paris, France-based AI Healthtech startup, has announced a $7M seed funding round led by The Moon Venture, with participation from Pléiade Venture, Plug&Play Ventures, Bpifrance, and AKKA Technologies….
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Fran Beadle, chief nursing information officer at Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) (Credit: DHCW)
The Welsh Nursing Care Record (WNCR) is now live across all eligible inpatient wards across Wales and used daily…
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