By Shania Kennedy
September 19, 2023 – Machine learning (ML) may help define personalized temperature norms and improve the clinical utility of oral temperature measurements, according to a study published this month in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Oral…
By Anuja Vaidya
September 19, 2023 – A new study revealed fewer differences in healthcare utilization by race and ethnicity and preferred language when a mix of virtual and in-person care options was available to patients…
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By Shania Kennedy
September 13, 2023 – Researchers have developed and externally validated a prediction model to detect early-stage pancreatic cancer using routinely collected blood biomarkers, according to a recent study published in JAMA Network Open.
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“Hospitals and health systems have spent more than $100 billion on EHRs over the last decade, and most believe that these systems are completely safe and usable but that is not necessarily the case,”…
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By Hannah Nelson
August 29, 2023 – While the accuracy of a proprietary sepsis prediction model from Epic outperformed other tools at higher threshold predictions, poor timeliness limits its application for clinical decision support (CDS), according to…
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As a clinical informaticist, a lot of my time is spent thinking about how technology impacts physicians and other users of the systems that care delivery organizations implement. Patient experience is sometimes an afterthought,…
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By Shania Kennedy
August 18, 2023 – In a study recently published in JAMA Network Open, researchers have externally validated a machine learning (ML) model designed to predict six-month mortality risk for patients with advanced cancer…
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By Sara Heath
August 16, 2023 – Although the number of doctors spreading medical misinformation is small, new data looking particularly at COVID-19-related misinformation reveals that providers have a broad reach with their false claims.
That broad reach could…
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By Sara Heath
August 08, 2023 – Only a fifth of the nearly 2.5 million adults with opioid use disorder received medication for the disease 2021, leaving millions without access to addiction treatment, according to new…
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By Mark Melchionna
August 02, 2023 – A new study effectively detects those at the highest risk of domestic violence re-offenses. This data would be valuable in allocating treatment toward malleable risk factors among high-risk patients.
According…
