VA Program Tackles Risky Combined Use of Steroids and NSAIDs in Older Veterans
A VA team developed and piloted the SLIM-D educational program to improve the safe concurrent use of glucocorticoids and NSAIDs ...
Tag: electronic health records
Stigmatizing language found in over half of primary care patient records
A retrospective analysis of primary care electronic health records found stigmatizing language in 45.3 percent of clinical notes, with higher ...
Nigeria’s digital health records promise stalls at unreliable power and costly infrastructure
A mixed-methods study of Nigerian healthcare facilities finds that reported digital record deployment far exceeds operational maturity, with power instability, ...
Drift metrics predict how synthetic clinical text fails on real patient notes
Researchers show that lexical and embedding-based drift measures between synthetic and real clinical text moderately predict how much de-identification models ...
Agentic AI speeds and standardizes detection of immune-related adverse events
A multi-phase Nature Cancer study found that an agentic AI system detected immune-related adverse events in clinical notes with retrospective ...
Psychotropic drug use rises before dementia diagnosis, then stabilizes after
A retrospective study of 3,408 older adults in Yinzhou, China, found psychotropic prescribing rose steadily before a dementia diagnosis, jumped ...
Machine Learning Calculator Estimates One-Year Mortality Risk Before Joint Replacement
A machine learning model trained on over 234,000 joint replacement records estimates one-year postoperative mortality risk from routinely available preoperative ...
Digital health helps rural African clinics, but only where health systems are ready
A systematic review of 35 studies across 18 Sub-Saharan African countries finds that mobile health and DHIS2 dominate rural primary ...
Pediatricians rank top strategies for screening children for type 1 diabetes in primary care
A pre-implementation study with 29 primary care pediatricians identified highly prioritized strategies, including antibody order sets, protocols, and electronic health ...
Gaussian Process Model Learns Interpretable Graphs for Clinical Forecasting
A new Gaussian process framework learns sparse, ordered dependency graphs from irregular electronic health records while improving forecast accuracy and ...
AI reasoning models boost diagnostic accuracy but raise safety concerns
A Nature Communications study finds large reasoning models make more accurate primary diagnoses than standard language models but produce over ...
Kyushu University and Cipher Core prepare AI-supported preventive healthcare pilot in Bangladesh
Kyushu University and Cipher Core have signed a joint-research agreement and begun preparations for a preventive healthcare pilot in Bangladesh ...
Qatar EHR study maps pediatric psychotropic prescribing and potential polypharmacy, 2019-2022
A retrospective study of 2,221 children and adolescents in Qatar's public health records found that 14.5 percent had two or ...
Blood proteins may expose hidden heart risk that standard scores miss
A PLOS Medicine Perspective argues that cardiovascular risk prediction is advancing on two fronts, using blood-based protein signatures and other ...
Ethnicity Does Not Raise Stroke Risk Once Hypertension or Diabetes Sets In, South London Records Show
A large South London electronic health records study finds that Black and Asian ethnicity generally raises the risk of developing ...
Foundation models promise a diabetes AI revolution—without the evidence to match
A critical review finds that foundation models are transforming diabetes AI across retinal imaging, glucose monitoring, and clinical text, yet ...
Paxlovid cuts Long COVID risk in high-risk adults, large study finds
A large RECOVER Initiative study found Paxlovid treatment within five days of infection was associated with reduced Long COVID risk ...
AI health prediction tools lag in low-income countries, review finds
A systematic review of 64 studies finds that only about one in five AI prediction models built on electronic health ...
Host Genomics Could Reshape How Doctors Diagnose Immune Disorders and Treat Infections
More than 30 experts outline how patients' germline genomes could improve infectious disease care, from detecting rare immune disorders early ...
Diabetes was common among influenza deaths long before COVID-19, analysis finds
An analysis of US hospital death records finds that a larger share of older adults who died of influenza had ...
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