Hospital medicine https://medicalxpress.com/hospital-medicine-news/ en-us Latest medical news and research in Hospital medicine Hospital AI tool predicts low blood sugar in patients up to 24 hours in advance Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences University investigators developed an AI-based model that can identify hospitalized patients at risk of low blood sugar up to 24 hours before the condition occurs. The long short-term memory (LSTM) model, described in npj Digital Medicine, could help clinicians intervene earlier and prevent complications, including, in severe cases, seizures, coma and long-term heart arrhythmias. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-hospital-ai-tool-blood-sugar.html Sat, 27 Jun 2026 10:00:03 EDT news701691207 Two new medical AIs for diagnosis and treatment decisions are at least as good as doctors, researchers find Two independent AI models that can assist with multiple stages of patient management, from diagnosis to treatment decisions, are presented in Nature this week. The systems—MIRA (Medical Intelligence for Reasoning and Action) and Google's AMIE (Articulate Medical Intelligence Explorer)—perform at least as well as physicians, demonstrating the potential for conversational AI tools to help with disease management. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-medical-ais-diagnosis-treatment-decisions.html Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:20:10 EDT news700999727 Remote monitoring alone fails to reduce readmissions for sepsis, trial finds Remote monitoring isn't a panacea for reducing readmissions across all conditions—and for some patients, clinicians should proceed with caution, clinical trial results published in JAMA Network Open suggest. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-remote-readmissions-sepsis-trial.html Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:30:01 EDT news700302841 AI could ease the burden of hospital discharge summaries The hospital discharge summary—a document that outlines a patient's hospital stay for their outpatient providers—can take up a lot of doctors' time. It needs to comprehensively and succinctly summarize days, sometimes weeks, of medical details. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-ai-ease-burden-hospital-discharge.html Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:00:03 EDT news700242301 Brushing your teeth in hospital could reduce the chance of catching pneumonia You go to the hospital for treatment and to get better. But sometimes, you get something much less welcome: an infection. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-teeth-hospital-chance-pneumonia.html Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:00:09 EDT news700225928 Pulse oximeter bias linked to gaps in care for Black patients Pulse oximeter devices routinely overestimate blood oxygen levels in darker-skinned patients—a racial bias that can trigger downstream health harms for Black individuals, compounding well beyond any single inaccurate reading. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05-pulse-oximeter-bias-linked-gaps.html Mon, 25 May 2026 11:20:02 EDT news698925541 Health care is facing a moral emergency, argue experts Health care has lost its human, moral, and relational foundations and must reconnect with its core values to improve both patient and staff well-being, argue experts in The BMJ. Despite unprecedented advances in diagnostic precision, therapeutic capability, and computational power, a deep paradox exists, say authors Don Berwick, Maureen Bisognano and Bob Klaber. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05-health-moral-emergency-experts.html Wed, 20 May 2026 18:30:01 EDT news698479707 AI language models struggle with basic hospital data tasks, study finds A new study finds that large language models (LLMs), used with straightforward prompting, perform poorly on routine number-crunching tasks that hospital administrators depend on every day to track patients and allocate resources. The findings have been published in PLOS Digital Health by Eyal Klang of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, U.S., and colleagues. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05-ai-language-struggle-basic-hospital.html Thu, 07 May 2026 17:50:03 EDT news697392062