Surgery
Researchers use AI and de-identified health records to identify the safest hip implants
Researchers use AI and de-identified health records to identify the safest hip implants
Oct 8, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
One simple change cut unnecessary imaging for cancer patients in half
Simply introducing a default physician order—a "nudge"—into electronic health records (EHRs) cut the use of unnecessary daily imaging in half during palliative radiation therapy sessions for patients with advanced cancer, ...
Jun 27, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Study suggests obese patients have more advanced, aggressive papillary thyroid cancer
A review of medical records of patients treated at an academic tertiary care center suggests that obese patients present to their physicians with more advanced stage and more aggressive forms of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC), ...
May 21, 2012
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Oncology & Cancer
Snomed CT: A richer and more reliable source of clinical data for primary care
(Medical Xpress) -- The Snomed CT medical terminology system provides more comprehensive and reliable data on diseases, diagnoses and treatments for primary care than is currently available with the classification models ...
Nov 1, 2011
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Medical research
Computational tool uses DNA-encoded approach to integrate and analyze different health databases
Brazilian researchers have created an innovative and agile computational tool to link and analyze different health databases with millions of patient records. Called Tucuxi-BLAST, the platform encodes identification records ...
Oct 4, 2022
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Health
Nursing home flu shots fall short, especially for blacks
At the beginning of the 2011-12 flu season, a new study finds that the proportion of nursing home patients who get a shot remains lower than a national public health goal and that the rate is lower for blacks than for whites. ...
Oct 5, 2011
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Surgery
Cell saver not cost-effective in single-level lumbar surgery
(HealthDay)—Use of intraoperative blood salvage (cell saver) is not cost-effective for adult patients undergoing single-level posterior lumbar decompression and fusion (PLDF) surgery, according to research published online ...
Oct 15, 2012
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
New findings show risk of death from COVID-19 lessens, but infection still can cause issues three years later
New findings on long COVID—long-term effects on health experienced by many who have had COVID-19—present a good-news, bad-news situation, according to a study at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and ...
May 30, 2024
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Health
Standardizing last names and addresses leads to better patient record matching
Standardizing last names and address information can improve the linking of patient health records by as much as 8 percent—more than 2 billion records—and enhance data available to clinicians to inform their care decisions.
Apr 4, 2019
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Immunology
Mount Sinai and LifeMap Solutions announce initial results for asthma health app
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and LifeMap Solutions, a digital-health subsidiary of BioTime, Inc. (NYSE MKT: BTX), today announced initial results and new clinical features for their free Asthma Health app. ...
Sep 29, 2015
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