Hospitals’ compliance with price transparency laws has increased significantly in the past year, with most hospitals currently displaying the cost data they need to in order to adhere to the regulations. That wasn’t always…
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By Anuja Vaidya
January 23, 2024 – Gaps in internet use rates appear to be narrowing among Medicare beneficiaries, but disparities across demographic groups persist, impacting telehealth access, according to a study published in the Journal…
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Sepsis remains a major cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Algorithms that assist with the early recognition of sepsis may improve outcomes, but relatively few studies have examined their impact on real-world patient outcomes….
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What You Should Know:
– Truveta, a consortium of 30 health systems united in “Saving Lives with Data,” has secured a significant partnership with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
– This collaboration…
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In the U.S. inpatient payment system, the Diagnosis-Related Group (DRG) is pivotal, but its assignment process is inefficient. The study introduces DRG-LLaMA, an advanced large language model (LLM) fine-tuned on clinical notes to enhance…
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Background: mHealth has the potential to radically improve health behaviors and quality of life; however, there are still key gaps in understanding how to optimize mHealth engagement. Most engagement research reports only on system…
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By Anuja Vaidya
January 19, 2024 – A team providing palliative care via audio-only telehealth helped improve the quality of life for adults with chronic conditions like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart failure, and interstitial…
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Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is a highly aggressive subtype of lung cancer characterized by rapid tumor growth and early metastasis. Accurate prediction of prognosis and therapeutic response is crucial for optimizing treatment strategies…
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Background: The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the need to understand citizen acceptance of health surveillance technologies such as contact tracing (CT) apps. Indeed, the success of these apps required widespread public acceptance and the alleviation…
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By Shania Kennedy
January 18, 2024 – A research team from Johns Hopkins Children’s Center has found that an autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) tool to screen youth populations for diabetic eye disease (DED) can also increase…
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