Health informatics
AI medical coding research adds to big picture
Much like the game of connect the dots, Megan McDougal's academic and professional career share points that have come together to form one big picture.
Apr 5, 2024
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Health informatics
AI technology takes notes for clinicians, allowing them more time with patients
Clinicians at Stanford Health Care will soon have access to an AI-powered app that can securely listen to interactions with patients and automatically generate draft clinical notes. The app, which was recently tested in a ...
Mar 12, 2024
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Autism spectrum disorders
Empowering autistic teens: New clinician advice for navigating chronic pain
When you're an autistic teenager living with chronic pain, getting treatment for your pain can be a challenging experience. That's according to a group of young people who've spoken to Dr. Abbie Jordan of the Department of ...
Feb 22, 2024
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Addiction
Study suggests artificial intelligence can help identify patients in need of alcohol treatment
An artificial intelligence-based program efficiently and accurately identified patients' risky alcohol use by analyzing their health records, according to a study published in Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research. ...
Jan 8, 2024
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Medications
These programs put unused prescription drugs in the hands of patients in need
On a recent November evening, Angie Phoenix waited at a pharmacy here in Colorado's second-largest city to pick up prescription drugs to treat her high blood pressure and arm seizures.
Dec 11, 2023
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Surgery
Does cannabis affect surgical outcomes? We need more data
After alcohol, marijuana is the most commonly used recreational substance among U.S. adults and adolescents. Up to 22 million Americans 12 or older use cannabis. In a 2022 survey by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, 0.7% ...
Oct 11, 2023
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Health
Missouri health system looks to AI to relieve burden on workers, answer patients' questions
The Mercy health system plans to roll out a series of artificial intelligence-based tools in the coming months, in partnership with Microsoft.
Oct 5, 2023
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Health informatics
Natural language processing to extract social risk factors influencing health
Social risk factors such as financial instability and housing insecurity are increasingly recognized as influencing health. But unlike diagnosis codes, prescription information, lab or other test reports, social risk factors ...
Aug 21, 2023
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Medications
Few waivered clinicians prescribed buprenorphine: New study
A new study found a declining proportion of DATA-waivered clinicians prescribed any buprenorphine between 2017 and 2021. While the number of waivered clinicians increased significantly during the five-year window, only one ...
May 3, 2023
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Cardiology
Model that uses machine learning methods and patient data at hospital arrival predicts strokes more accurately
Stroke is among the most dangerous and commonly misdiagnosed medical conditions. Black and Hispanic people, women, older people on Medicare, and people in rural areas are less likely to be diagnosed in time for treatment ...
Apr 19, 2023
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