All articles tagged: Health informatics

Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and deep learning (DL) are increasingly transforming the medical field by enhancing diagnostic accuracy, prognostic predictions, precision treatments, and operational efficiency in health care systems. These advanced technologies enable the analysis of vast datasets, providing insights and decision-making support that were previously unattainabl

A colder nose and warmer cheeks may be a telltale sign of rising blood pressure. Researchers discovered that temperatures in different face regions are associated with various chronic illnesses, such as diabetes and high blood pressure. These temperature differences are not easily perceptible by one's own touch but can instead be identified using specific AI-derived spatial temperature patterns th

Large language model (LLM)-based classifiers can accurately detect guardian authorship of messages sent from an adolescent patient portal, according to a research letter published online June 25 in JAMA Network Open.

Osteoporosis is so difficult to detect in early stage it's called the "silent disease." What if artificial intelligence could help predict a patient's chances of having the bone-loss disease before ever stepping into a doctor's office?

Artificial intelligence models often play a role in medical diagnoses, especially when it comes to analyzing images such as X-rays. However, studies have found that these models don't always perform well across all demographic groups, usually faring worse in women and people of color.

Compared to straight and cisgender individuals, sexual and gender minority adults in the US are more likely to face barriers paying for or accessing adequate health insurance and health care, but few states collect sexual and gender identity (SOGI) information to better understand the health challenges and needs of this population.

In a demonstration of what is plausible in the developing world, Nigeria's Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital (EKSUTH) is changing from error-prone paper-based patient records to an advanced Electronic Health Record (EHR) system. This move will streamline patient information management and enhance the overall quality of care provided to patients.

Led by a team of researchers at University Hospitals Connor Whole Health, a new study finds that collecting paper-based patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures of pain, anxiety, and stress is feasible—and that provider, operational, and clinical-level factors impact successful completion more so than patient factors.

For the fourth year in a row, rates of gun injuries stayed above levels seen before the pandemic, a new government report shows.

Mailed HIV-self tests (HIVSTs) can increase testing among persons who have never received testing for HIV or have not received testing in the past year, according to research published in the June 20 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

From 2021 to 2022, there was a decrease in the percentage of adults who used telemedicine in the past 12 months, according to the June 20 National Vital Statistics Reports, a publication from the National Center for Health Statistics.

The latest issue of the journal Health Equity features a pivotal roundtable discussion titled "Implications and Insights on Federal Revisions to Race and Ethnicity Collection." This roundtable assembles leading experts to explore newly revised race and ethnicity data collection standards from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), highlighting the significant impact these changes have on polic

Knowing whether or not a treatment is working just by wearing your watch? Data scientist Ahnjili ZhuParris has identified a lot of opportunities for the use of machine learning in clinical research to monitor test subjects at home. "It is low-threshold and accurate."

It might soon be possible to measure a patient's pulse, breathing, and blood pressure simply by scanning their face. This technology could offer a future tool for quickly assessing the severity of acute infection and other conditions, according to a thesis from the University of Gothenburg.

The recent surge in popularity of AI tools such as ChatGPT is forcing the science community to reckon with its place in scientific literature. Prestigious journals such as Science and Nature have attempted to restrict or prohibit AI use in submissions, but are finding it difficult to enforce because of how challenging it is becoming to detect machine-generated language.

Recommendations designed to reframe the evaluation of in vitro diagnostic tests (IVDs) have been published in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A.

In contrast to traditional cancer treatments such as surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy, photodynamic therapy (PDT) is emerging as a novel method that uses specific wavelengths of light to activate photosensitizers. This activation generates reactive oxygen species that effectively destroy tumor cells.

Will the threats associated with artificial intelligence be as bad as some fear? Or will AI be relatively benign? Could the answer be somewhere in between?

A team of chemical and biological engineers at Seoul National University in the Republic of Korea has developed a proof-of-concept device that could one day lead to the creation of an artificial nose.

A study published in Health Data Science introduces a curated bibliographic dataset that aims to revolutionize the landscape of Health Artificial Intelligence (AI) research. Led by Xuanyu Shi and Jian Du from Peking University, this dataset integrates a vast array of Health AI-related documents, offering an invaluable resource for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners.

Removing race from equations that estimate lung function will shift the categorization of disease severity across patient populations, moving more Black individuals into an advanced disease category, according to new research led by scientists at Harvard Medical School. At the same time, more white and Hispanic people would be reclassified as having less advanced illnesses.

Patients admitted to Houston Methodist Hospital get a monitoring device about the size of a half-dollar affixed to their chest—and an unwitting role in the expanding use of artificial intelligence in health care.

ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot designed to assist with language-based tasks, can effectively extract data for research purposes from physicians' clinical notes, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers report in a new study.

"Sticks and stones may break my bones," the old adage goes. "But words will never hurt me." Tell that to Eugenia Rho, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, and she will show you extensive data that prove otherwise.

New research from Penn Nursing's Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research (CHOPR)—recently published in the journal Research in Nursing & Health—has successfully validated a new, streamlined version of the Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index (PES-NWI), originally authored in 2002 by Eileen T. Lake, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, Professor of Nursing, the Edith Clemmer Steinbright Professo

Human tissue is intricate, complex and, of course, three dimensional. But the thin slices of tissue that pathologists most often use to diagnose disease are two dimensional, offering only a limited glimpse at the tissue's true complexity. There is a growing push in the field of pathology toward examining tissue in its three-dimensional form. But 3D pathology datasets can contain hundreds of times

Emergency departments nationwide are overcrowded and overtaxed, but a new study suggests artificial intelligence (AI) could one day help prioritize which patients need treatment most urgently.

In industries such as health care, where data generation grows by 47% each year, information collected within electronic health records could help inform more efficient care operations or more accurate diagnoses. However, personal health data is highly protected and largely goes untouched by analysts and researchers.

Scientists have designed a new artificial intelligence model that emulates randomized clinical trials to determine the treatment options most effective at preventing stroke in people with heart disease.

Video-enabled glasses have the potential to support patients at risk of falls by allowing medical staff to monitor how they move around their homes and their community. However, with privacy concerns at the forefront of this new technology, academics at Northumbria University have carried out a cutting-edge study into the ethical use of AI to ensure video footage can be obscured to ensure patient

Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have the potential to make life easier for people with motor or speech disorders, allowing them to manipulate prosthetic limbs and employ computers, among other uses. In addition, healthy and impaired people alike could enjoy BCI-based gaming.

Today's NHS faces severe time constraints, with the risk of short consultations and concerns about the risk of misdiagnosis or delayed care. These challenges are compounded by limited resources and overstretched staff that results in protracted patient wait times and generic treatment strategies.

A new study by investigators from Mass General Brigham demonstrates that large language models (LLMs), a type of generative AI, may help reduce physician workload and improve patient education when used to draft replies to patient messages.

State-of-the-art artificial intelligence systems known as large language models (LLMs) are poor medical coders, according to researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Their study, published in the April 19 online issue of NEJM AI, emphasizes the necessity for refinement and validation of these technologies before considering clinical implementation.

Advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems have shown promise in revolutionizing the field of pathology by transforming the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of disease; however, the underrepresentation of certain patient populations in pathology datasets used to develop AI models may limit the overall quality of their performance and widen health disparities.

With large language models that take notes during patient visits and algorithms that identify disease, artificial intelligence has begun to prove its worth as an assistant for physicians. But a new study from Stanford Medicine shows the potential of AI as a facilitator—one that helps doctors and nurses connect to achieve more efficient, effective patient care.

The widespread use of artificial intelligence (AI) in medical decision-making tools has led to an update of the TRIPOD guidelines for reporting clinical prediction models. The new TRIPOD+AI guidelines are launched in the BMJ today.

The next time you have a suspicious-looking mole on your back, your dermatologist may be able to skip the scalpel and instead scan the spot with a noninvasive "virtual biopsy" to determine whether it contains any cancerous cells. Similarly, surgeons trying to determine whether they have removed all of a breast tumor may eventually rely on an image captured during surgery rather than wait for a pat

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.

While the garbled translation of a newspaper article in a foreign language may be nothing more than an annoyance, uses of machine translation technology extend to higher-stakes settings as well: In a hospital emergency room, incorrectly translated discharge instructions or medication protocols could have life-threatening consequences.

A new study recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) reveals how large language models (LLMs) respond to different motivational states.

Imagine you're shopping online and talking to a helpful bot about buying some new shoes. That's the basic idea behind large language models (LLMs). LLMs are a type of artificial intelligence (AI) and they are gaining traction in health care.

A simple screening tool integrated into the admissions process for critically ill patients can streamline requests for palliative care consultations, according to a study published in Critical Care Nurse (CCN).

A recent review shows that ChatGPT-4, an artificial intelligence program designed to understand and generate human-like text, has outperformed internal medicine residents and attending physicians at two academic medical centers at processing medical data and demonstrating clinical reasoning.

A study published in Health Data Science introduces an end-to-end deep learning framework, known as Knowledge-Empowered Drug Discovery (KEDD), aimed at revolutionizing the field of drug discovery. This innovative framework adeptly integrates structured and unstructured knowledge, enhancing the AI-driven exploration of molecular dynamics and interactions.

A study in Health Data Science introduces an advanced research framework to dissect the vast textual landscape surrounding COVID-19. This methodology leverages keywords from Google Trends alongside research abstracts from the WHO COVID-19 database, offering a nuanced understanding of the pandemic's discourse dynamics.

A surge in the amount of digital data in the health sector, together with increases in compute power and the availability of new artificial intelligence (AI) tools are leading to an explosion of AI being used in health care, according to a new report from CSIRO, Australia's national science agency.

Data science methods can help overcome challenges in measuring and analyzing social determinants of health (SDoH), according to a paper published in The Lancet Digital Health, helping mitigate the root causes of health inequities that are not fully addressed through health care spending or lifestyle choices.

In a study published in the Annals of Family Medicine, researchers at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine identify transformative effects of electronic health record (EHR) optimization on departmental productivity. With the universal implementation of EHR systems, the study sheds light on the importance of collaborative efforts between clinicians and information technology (

The AI model ChatGPT can write administrative medical notes up to 10 times faster than doctors without compromising quality. This is according to a study conducted by researchers at Uppsala University Hospital and Uppsala University in collaboration with Danderyd Hospital and the University Hospital of Basel, Switzerland. The research is published in the journal Acta Orthopaedica.

For years, it was harder for Black patients to secure a coveted spot on the national kidney transplant waitlist because a clinical algorithm was making Black patients appear healthier than they were. After a Penn Medicine researcher exposed the problem in 2019—and showed how it exacerbated racial disparities in kidney disease—a national task force recommended removing race from the algorithm's sco

ChatGPT accurately answers questions about genetic syndromes, genetic testing, and counseling, according to a study presented at the Society of Gynecologic Oncology Annual Meeting on Women's Cancer, held from March 16 to 18 in San Diego.

Imagine this: a novel virus is rapidly breaking out nationwide, resulting in an epidemic. The government introduces vaccination mandates and a choice of different vaccines is available.

Expanded U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) criteria for lung cancer screening (LCS) in 2021 have resulted in a 65.9 percent increase in the number of eligible individuals, according to a research letter published online March 21 in JAMA Network Open.

A new study led by the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King's College London has demonstrated the potential of an AI tool they developed to predict the health trajectory of patients by forecasting future disorders, symptoms, medications and procedures.

A new study examining the impact of the 2009 National Health Service Corps (NHSC) expansion on clinical diversity has found the number of Hispanic NHSC clinicians lacking relative to the Hispanic population.

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 pilot program at Stanford Health Care, harnesses ambient voice recognition technology to create a written summary that captures essential clinical details.

In states that relaxed firearm laws to allow openly carrying a loaded firearm in public without a permit, significantly more people died by firearms and suicide than in states without permitless open carry laws, according to study findings published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

The number of female genital mutilation survivors tops 230 million worldwide, UNICEF said in a new report Thursday, an increase of 15 percent since 2016 despite progress against the practice in some countries.

For nurse Judy Schmidt, the beeping monitors hooked up to critical patients at the Community Medical Center in Toms River, New Jersey, were just a normal part of the whirlwind of activity in the intensive care unit.

Health care portal use was higher during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published online on Feb. 29 in JAMA Network Open.

Artificial intelligence helped clinicians to accelerate the design of diabetes prevention software, a new study finds. Publishing in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, the study examined the capabilities of a form of artificial intelligence (AI) called generative AI or GenAI, which predicts likely options for the next word in any sentence based on how billions of people used words in contex

Kidney doctors and clinical scientists at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are using artificial intelligence (AI) to better predict when a person's kidneys might fail.

Our nation's ability to treat the patients who require blood on any given day—from victims of mass-casualty events to those undergoing treatment for cancer—is in serious peril, according to a new viewpoint paper, "The Bloody Transfusion Problem," published in the JAMA.

From the invention of the wheel to the advent of the printing press to the splitting of the atom, history is replete with cautionary tales of new technologies emerging before humanity was ready to cope with them.

For millions of people, smartwatches aren't just a piece of technology. They can use them to take control of their health in ways never thought possible.

If health is a fundamental human right, health-care delivery must be improved globally to achieve universal access. However, the limited number of practitioners creates a barrier for all health-care systems.

SATURDAY, Feb. 24, 2024 (HeathDay News)—Colon cancer rates are on the rise among young Americans and Americans of color, so much so that the disease is now the leading cause of cancer death for men under 50 and the second most deadly cancer for women under 50.

Physicians and scientists have known for many years that our genetics not only shape our physical features like our smiles but also our risk for developing certain diseases.

Welcome to the world of modern medicine. Computer vision tools can accurately detect suspicious skin lesions or predict coronary artery disease from scans. Data-driven robots are guiding minimally invasive surgery.

Medical summarization, a process that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to condense complex patient information, is currently used in health care settings for tasks such as creating electronic health records and simplifying medical text for insurance claims processing. While the practice is intended to create efficiencies, it can be labor-intensive, according to Penn State researchers, who created

Rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have opened the way for the creation of a huge range of new health care tools, but to ensure that these tools do not exacerbate preexisting health inequities, researchers urge the use of more representative data in their development.

Roots Community Health Center was slammed in 2020, with lines for its COVID-19 testing stations stretching around the block and exam rooms full of people struggling to breathe.

Addressing supply shortages in an organization can be like hitting a moving target—the problem may shift along with immediate supply and demand as the situation evolves.

Very few health systems have written formal policies addressing the use of artificial intelligence (AI), and even fewer have policies specific to generative AI, reflecting the rapid advances the solutions have made in health care, according to a new survey from the Center for Connected Medicine at UPMC (CCM).

Proprietary artificial intelligence software designed to be an early warning system for sepsis can't differentiate high- and low-risk patients before they receive treatments, according to a new study from the University of Michigan.

A range of reproductive factors, including the age when periods first start and early menopause, are all linked to a heightened risk of COPD—the umbrella term for progressive lung conditions that cause breathing difficulties—finds research published online in the journal Thorax.

Emergency medical service (EMS) systems are not consistently providing optimal care based on new national standards of quality to patients who call 911, according to a new study from the Icahn School of Medicine of Mount Sinai.

A new study shows that it is possible to use machine learning and statistics to address a problem that has long hindered the field of metabolomics: large variations in the data collected at different sites.

Smartphones, smartwatches and associated apps are constantly improving their ability to record and store personal health data. The initial proposal for the EU law for a European Health Data Space in 2022 would allow depersonalized health and wellness data to be shared without explicit consent in the future. There has been understandable pushback against it—not just from data protection officers.

Wellness visits and preventive health screenings have not returned to prepandemic levels, according to a study published online Feb. 2 in JAMA Health Forum.

Americans are cautiously optimistic that AI will be able to improve the health care they receive, a new Cleveland Clinic survey finds.

The thermal environment refers to the physical surroundings as it pertains to the heat exchange of an individual and its environment. Naturally, the thermal environment also relates to comfort, or more specifically, thermal comfort. This type of comfort is an important metric to measure an individual's feelings as it relates to their environment and can be directly associated with health, efficien

A review of 14 studies has found that empathetic care is associated with improved patient satisfaction, a metric linked to important implications for patient outcomes. However, strong conclusions were limited by quality and applicability of evidence. The review is published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

A narrative review from authors at Stanford University provides important insights for clinicians considering using large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT in their routine practice, including suggestions for usage and potential pitfalls with mitigation strategies. The review is published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

As Australia swelters through a long, hot summer, the effects of heat waves and the likelihood of ambulance callouts is at the heart of new Griffith University research.

To improve the care coordination competency of nurses involved in the management of critically ill patients on life support, an electronic app—NCCCS—was developed by Associate Professor Chie Takiguchi of Toho University and Professor Tomoko Inoue of International University of Health and Welfare.

In the U.S., an average of nearly 70,000 children under the age of 5 are hospitalized with RSV every year, and nearly 7 million people have died from COVID-19 worldwide.

Accidental death is the most common type of mortality among United States military members and veterans who served in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. But there is limited knowledge on whether this risk, or the type of accidental death—such as motor vehicle accidents (MVA) or accidental overdose—vary following military members' return from deployment.

Muhammad Mamdani understands why people are wary of artificial intelligence having a say in their health care—but he's even more concerned about the patients who are waiting to benefit from the potentially life-saving benefits of AI-assisted medicine.

Rural Black residents of the South have higher mortality, or death, rates than rural Black residents elsewhere, and so did Hispanic residents of the rural South and West, according to a new study by two researchers in the Penn State College of Health and Human Development.

Medicine and health care are already so immersed in new digital technologies that we need to consider what is happening now. Terms such as telemedicine, artificial intelligence (AI), and open health, which a few years ago might have seemed like something from science fiction, have become part of our daily lives.

Human pathologists are extensively trained to detect when tissue samples from one patient mistakenly end up on another patient's microscope slides (a problem known as tissue contamination). But such contamination can easily confuse artificial intelligence (AI) models, which are often trained in pristine, simulated environments, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study.

The Austrian Institute for Health Technology Assessment (AIHTA) has analyzed the Austrian registry landscape to provide a first overview of in the existing Austrian registries and the health data collected in each case. Based on the results, the researchers developed a guideline with important aspects for planning and operating medical registries to utilize the collected data's potential to improv

When you reach for that bottle of wine this Valentine's Day, do you know how healthy it is? Many people have a too-rosy view of the beverage and are surprised when confronted with the facts about it on a nutrition label, according to a study my co-author Natalia Velikova and I recently published in the Journal of Consumer Marketing.

Kingston University academics and staff from the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames' Department of Health Behaviors and Public Health Services have published an evaluation of the effectiveness of a series of locally led digital public health campaigns.

Charity Watkins sensed something was deeply wrong when she experienced exhaustion after her daughter was born.

Diagnostic accuracy is high in the emergency department, with about 5.7 percent of patients misdiagnosed, according to a report published Dec. 15 by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Privacy concerns are common among users of Finland's national patient portal OmaKanta, a recent study by the University of Eastern Finland and the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare shows. As many as one in three users had concerns about the security of their personal data.

Nurse home visits to disadvantaged mothers can significantly reduce their rates of hypertension and their daughters' likelihood of obesity, finds a new reanalysis of health data by a team led by a UCL researcher.

When it comes to trends in mortality over the last thirty years, countries around the world can be grouped into five clusters, roughly representing the five continents, according to a new study published January 17, 2024, in PLOS ONE by David Atance of Universidad de Alcalá, Spain, and colleagues.

A team of AI researchers at Google Research and Google DeepMind has developed the rudiments of an AI-based diagnostic dialogue system to conduct medical interviews. The group has published a paper describing their research on the arXiv preprint server.

In 2022, 5.7 percent of adults reported lacking reliable transportation for daily living, according to a January data brief published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics.

A new study led by researchers at the University of Chicago found that changes in male gender expression from adolescence to young adulthood align closely with the gender norms present in individuals' school environments and that these trajectories are associated with subsequent patterns of substance abuse.

Wastewater surveillance is a potent tool in understanding COVID-19 transmission within school settings, according to a groundbreaking study led by epidemiologist David Larsen from Syracuse University.

Where we live and work, our age, and the conditions we grew up in can influence our health and lead to disparities, but these factors can be difficult for clinicians and researchers to capture and address.

Medical students with co-occurring disabilities are more likely than their peers to experience burnout, a new Yale study finds. That risk increases if the student identifies as Asian or in a racial or ethnic group typically underrepresented in the medical fields. The findings, say the researchers, highlight the importance of reducing stigma and addressing the needs of students with disabilities.

The U.S. health care response during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic unveiled challenges in public health reporting systems and electronic clinical data exchange.

There is considerable variance in state reporting requirements regarding medically impaired drivers, according to a study published online Jan. 5 in JAMA Network Open.

Daylight Saving Time (DST) might be influencing our internet habits, according to research from the University of Surrey and the University of Padova (Italy).

A new study from researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital, in collaboration with researchers at the University of California San Francisco, has shed light on the rate and impact of diagnostic errors in hospital settings.

Fraunhofer Austria and the AULSS2 Marca Trevigiana Institute in Treviso have developed a method based on artificial intelligence that can reduce the workload of laboratories.

U.S. health care workers were most likely to be infected with COVID-19 at work during the pandemic's first year, according to a new study that challenges previous research suggesting their risk was highest off the job.

Sensors applied to the skin hold promise for a non-invasive and low-cost method of identifying key biomarkers in sweat, which could help clinicians make earlier and more accurate diagnoses. Up until now, however, sensors could identify the presence of biomarkers but lacked the ability to accurately detect their concentration in the presence of erratic, intermittent and unpredictable sweat producti

A significant obstacle to improving care and outcomes for intensive care unit (ICU) patients is the unexpected nature of becoming seriously ill. Which groups of patients are likely to become severely ill, and will they survive their ICU stay?

Assessing how seriously injured a person is, involves weighing up lots of different parameters fast. If health care professionals could get support making fast-paced, life-critical decisions from an AI tool, more lives could be saved. This has been shown by research from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, along with the University of Gothenburg and the University of Borås.

Approximately 28,000 snakebites caused by venomous snakes of medical importance are reported annually in Brazil, according to Health Ministry data. The number is certainly a significant underestimate because many snakebites are not reported.

Nearly one in five deceased patients are marked alive in electronic health records (EHRs) and 80 percent received primary care outreach after their death, according to a research letter published online Dec. 4 in JAMA Internal Medicine.

ChatGPT can be a useful and convenient tool for people who want to know nutritional information of specific food items, according to a research letter published online Dec. 27 in JAMA Network Open.

Compared to patients who had a virtual visit with their own family doctor, those who received virtual care from a doctor outside of their family care team were 66% more likely to visit the emergency department within seven days, according to new research.

For a cohort of veterans, disparities in preoperative life-sustaining treatment (LST) documentation rates persist based on race and ethnicity, rurality of residence, and history of mental health disability, according to a study published online Dec. 19 in JAMA Network Open.

In the not-so-distant future, people might be able to tune in to their favorite news source for an update on their community health status, just as they check on the local weather forecast.

Patients with emergency department encounters are more likely to screen positive for social determinants of health (SDOH) needs, according to a research letter published online Dec. 19 in JAMA Network Open.

With concerns mounting that artificial intelligence (AI) could have a profound impact on traditional teaching in academic settings, many question the role of ChatGPT, a sophisticated AI language model that can generate content that mimics human conversation.

Most patients felt online GP consultations were quicker, more flexible, and more efficient than traditional consulting methods, in the largest study of patient views on the topic ever carried out.

Over 1.05 million deaths were associated with antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and 250,000 deaths were attributable to AMR in the WHO African region, posing an unprecedented health threat. That's according to a new study published in The Lancet Global Health.

In an editorial published in PNAS Nexus, Monica M. Bertagnolli assesses the promise of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) to study and improve health. The editorial was written by Dr. Bertagnolli in her capacity as director of the National Cancer Institute. AI/ML offers powerful new tools to analyze highly complex datasets, and researchers across biomedicine are taking advantage.

AI models in health care are a double-edged sword, with models improving diagnostic decisions for some demographics, but worsening decisions for others when the model has absorbed biased medical data.

Wearable medical sensors have opened doors for remote health monitoring and treatment evaluation. But making diagnoses and treatment plans based on many datapoints—such as muscle movements, heart rate, breathing or speaking and swallowing—can be difficult for health care providers to do quickly.

A new study provides the latest data on the low rates for screening and documenting Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) in health care settings.

Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and GPT-4 have the potential to assist in clinical practice to automate administrative tasks, draft clinical notes, communicate with patients, and even support clinical decision making. However, preliminary studies suggest the models can encode and perpetuate social biases that could adversely affect historically marginalized groups.

Researchers from the University of Liverpool have outlined a framework for artificial intelligence (AI) to improve antimicrobial use and infection care, helping to address the global challenge of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

There are differential benefits associated with a percutaneous coronary intervention–capable facility (PCI-CF) opening based on patient race and community segregation, according to a research letter published online Dec. 12 in JAMA Network Open.

Among adults age 65 years and older, mortality was declining before the COVID-19 pandemic, although the rate of decline slowed from 2009, according to the Dec. 15 National Vital Statistics Reports, a publication from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

American physicians have mixed feelings on the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) into mainstream medical practice, a new survey shows.

A paper published in JAMA Network Open addresses bias in health care algorithms and provides the health care community with guiding principles to avoid repeating errors that have tainted the use of algorithms in other sectors.

A loaded revolver left out on a nightstand, a curious child—and unimaginable tragedy. Moments like this have occurred in American homes hundreds of times over the past two decades, killing 1,262 children, according to a sobering new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Suicide deaths in the civilian non-institutionalized working population are 32.0 and 8.0 per 100,000 among men and women, respectively, according to research published in the Dec. 15 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

The future for AI regulation is currently being charted in the United States and will have significant effects on the health sciences, writes Vanderbilt researcher Laura Stark in a new article.

Female victims of gun violence in the US are less likely to die than their male counterparts, despite having similar injury severity, finds a seven-year analysis of a US national injury database, published in the open access journal Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open.

A new study underscores the alarming occurrence of intimate partner violence (IPV) as the cause of assault-related injuries resulting in anoxia, or the complete lack of oxygen flow to tissues and organs. Led by investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham health care system, the study found that IPV accounted for 40 percent of assault-related anoxi

Considerable attention has focused on mental illness as a major contributor to homicides in the United States. Serious mental illness affects more than 14 million Americans ages 18 and older and nearly 58 million people reported having a mental illness.

A lack of trust between institutions in Australia is a bigger hurdle to the easy sharing of health and social welfare data than perceived state legislation obstacles—which researchers say largely don't have a detrimental effect in Australia.

In celebrating its 75th anniversary, the World Health Organization has recently called for a renewed drive for health equity—that is, the opportunity for everyone to achieve an optimal health status.

Physician-investigators at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) compared a chatbot's probabilistic reasoning to that of human clinicians. The findings, published in JAMA Network Open, suggest that artificial intelligence could serve as useful clinical decision support tools for physicians.

Can AI save us from the arduous and time-consuming task of academic research collection? An international team of researchers investigated the credibility and efficiency of generative AI as an information-gathering tool in the medical field.

Many people from racial and ethnic minority groups brace themselves for insults and judgments before medical appointments, according to a new survey of patients that reaffirms the prevalence of racial discrimination in the U.S. health system.

A new study focused on wearable health monitors underscores an entrenched problem in the development of new health technologies—namely, that a failure to understand race means the way these devices are developed and tested can exacerbate existing racial health inequities.

There has been a surge in academic and business interest in software as a medical device (SaMD). It enables medical professionals to streamline existing medical practices and make innovative medical processes such as digital therapeutics a reality. Furthermore, SaMD is a billion-dollar market. However, it is not clearly understood as a technological change and emerging industry.

As hospitalizations due to chronic conditions increase across the United States, attention is focusing on using data collected in electronic health records (EHRs) by health care systems to enable public health departments to gain an understanding of the incidence and prevalence of hypertension, diabetes, asthma, obesity and other chronic diseases with the ultimate goal of improving disease outcome

Over the course of the pandemic, COVID-19 hit Black communities and communities of color particularly hard. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Black, Hispanic, American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and other Pacific Islander people are about twice as likely to die from COVID-19 as white people. Older adults and young children are also more vulnerable to adverse

A trip to the doctor's office comes with a bit of preparation for most, maybe even an internal pep talk to prepare for being told to get more exercise or calm a simmering fear of needles.

Hunting season has begun in many parts of the United States, with millions of Americans heading into the woods in hopes of bagging a big buck.

Whether it's a question of analyzing medical images, detecting drug interactions, or creating brain-computer interfaces, it seems like the potential applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in the health care industry are endless.

Isotretinoin users do not have an increased risk for suicide or psychiatric disorders and may have a lower risk for suicide attempts, according to a review published online Nov. 29 in JAMA Dermatology.

Wearable devices that use sensors to monitor biological signals can play an important role in health care. These devices provide valuable information that allows providers to predict, diagnose and treat a variety of conditions while improving access to care and reducing costs.

An initiative at a Texas hospital contributed to reductions in chest tube duration, hospital length of stay and readmissions for patients with lung cancer who had a pulmonary lobectomy, according to new research published in Critical Care Nurse.

Patients given transitional care before and during discharge from hospital—such as joint discharge planning follow up visits or phone calls—are less likely to be readmitted according to University of Manchester researchers.

Health care has historically been slow to adopt new technologies that involve wholesale changes to the nature of the work. Witness the slow and checkered roll-out of electronic health records and the utter failure of prior efforts to implement artificial intelligence tools, such as IBM's vaunted but ultimately doomed experience with Watson Health.

The latest national data show that when it comes to suicide, Americans are increasingly resorting to firearms as their method of choice.

Controversial US tech company Palantir has been awarded a £330 million contract to create a new system for sharing data—including patients' medical details—within the NHS in England.

A new AI-assisted molecular diagnostic platform capable of identifying variants of COVID-19 and other infectious diseases has been developed by scientists in the UK. The low cost, portable device could play a crucial role in preventing future pandemics due to its accuracy and versatility.

U.S. life expectancy rose last year—by more than a year—but still isn't close to what it was before the COVID-19 pandemic.

The number of people identifying as transgender in their GP records in the UK has increased between 2000 and 2018, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.

Researchers at the University of Geneva have made a groundbreaking stride in health care technology, as detailed in their study published in Health Data Science.

Reduced travel on Victoria's roads during the COVID-19 pandemic did not equate to proportionate reductions in road trauma.

An exploratory study has raised concerns about the increasing number of people in England and Wales whose bodies are discovered so late that they have decomposed.

A new artificial intelligence computer program created by researchers at the University of Florida and NVIDIA can generate doctors' notes so well that two physicians couldn't tell the difference, according to an early study from both groups.

Machine learning algorithms designed to diagnose a common infection that affects women showed a diagnostic bias among ethnic groups, University of Florida researchers found.

Mortality rose across all demographics during first few years of the pandemic, but COVID-19 hit non-white Americans the hardest. According to the U.S. Census Bureau and the National Center for Health Statistics, the largest increase in mortality in 2020 was among the American Indian and Native Alaskan populations, which saw an increase of 36.7%. The increase in mortality was 29.7% among Black Amer

Cardiometabolic disease (CMD) is an umbrella term that includes conditions such as obesity, diabetes, high cholesterol, and hypertension. Unfortunately, many adults in the United States have CMDs and the rates are on the rise. Now, researchers are working to understand the factors driving those increases by looking into geographical aspects of the food environment like the types and availability o

Cyberattacks targeting health information systems can cause considerable damage and stress, but there are ways to reduce the risk of these events, write authors in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).

From 2011 to 2021, there was no change in the prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) overall, but increases were seen among adults aged ≥75 years, those in micropolitan counties, and among current or former smokers, according to research published in the Nov. 17 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a widely used advanced life support procedure that provides cardiac and respiratory support to critically ill patients. ECMO use has been increasing exponentially over the last decade as it has shown success in resuscitating patients in critical situations like the COVID-19 pandemic and is now a lifesaving treatment modality in intensive care units (IC

With the rapid development and extensive applications of generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology across various sectors, Dr. Michael Co Tiong-hong from the LKS Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), and Dr. John Yuen Tsz-hon from the Department of Computer Science, HKU, have jointly developed Hong Kong's first "AI virtual patients" diagnostic application for training

For the first time, international initiatives such as the European Health Data Space recognize the value of citizen-generated health data. An EU-wide digital platform will allow the exchange of traditional as well as citizen-generated health data across member states for the use in patient care and research. Germany is currently preparing the corresponding national legislations such as the German

A new Kaiser Permanente physician peer support program designed to reduce burnout helped improve doctors' well-being and had a positive impact on the culture of the medical departments that took part in the program, Kaiser Permanente researchers have found.

Government and industry guardrails are urgently needed for Generative AI to protect the health and well-being of our communities, say Flinders University medical researchers who put the technology to the test and saw how it failed.

Women produce physiological data that is just as predictable as men, at least when it comes to skin temperature. This might seem like common sense, but variations in body signals due to menstrual cycles, such as temperature, were used as an excuse to keep women out of clinical studies for decades.

GPT-4 conversational artificial intelligence (AI) has the ability to diagnose and triage health conditions comparable to that provided by board-certified physicians, and its performance does not vary by patient race and ethnicity.

The coronavirus pandemic caused over one million deaths in the United States from 2021 to 2023. According to the Human Mortality Database, the world's leading scientific data resource on mortality in more developed countries, life expectancy at birth in the United States fell from 78.99 years in 2019 to 76.43 years in 2021.

New "building-block" approaches to the creation of digital tools that include data and artificial intelligence could play a key role in improving the running of hospital wards and disease management, according to the findings of new research.

As artificial intelligence changes the way medicine is practiced, humans become more beholden to algorithms—making it crucial to get those machine-human collaborations correct at the outset.

New research shows large reductions in gun violence involvement for participants of a Chicago-based community violence intervention (CVI) program.

Researchers at National Jewish Health found that Indigenous coal miners may develop disabling black lung disease but are less likely to qualify for medical benefits using currently required lung function standards rather than standards specific to Indigenous populations.

Generative artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT, an AI-powered language tool, and Midjourney, an AI-powered image generator, can potentially assist people with various disabilities. These tools could summarize content, compose messages or describe images. Yet the degree of this potential is an open question, since, in addition to regularly spouting inaccuracies and failing at basic reasoning

With long waiting lists, significant journey times, an ever-shrinking number of doctor's practices and the aging population, medical care services in sparsely populated regions are under mounting pressure. As part of its Neighborhood Diagnostics project, the Fraunhofer Center for Digital Diagnostics ZDD is working to develop a digital ecosystem for delivering patient treatment close to where they

Health organizations such as hospitals, medical clinics, pharmaceutical companies and community health centers are increasingly turning to social media to promote their brand and connect with patients by delivering personally tailored content and expanded access to high-quality medical services. Embedding AI-driven tools such as telehealth services, chatbots and modes of remote diagnosis and patie

More than half of adults used the internet to look for health or medical information during July to December 2022, with higher prevalence among women than men, according to an October data brief published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics.

In recent decades, the emphasis of biomarker research has centered around blood-based markers. However, blood biomarkers alone cannot capture the full spectrum of clinically relevant indicators. Consequently, urine has emerged as a valuable and complementary source of information, with increasing evidence of the diagnostic potential of urinary biomarkers compared to their serum counterparts for th

Domestic violence went down or stayed the same during the first 10 months of the COVID-19 pandemic in five major U.S. cities. However, domestic violence involving firearms increased in three of those cities, according to a new UC Davis study published in the Journal of Family Violence.

In the battle against COVID-19, contact tracing has proven to be a vital weapon in curbing the spread of the virus. While numerous contact tracing methods have emerged, manual contact tracing methods are often slow and inaccurate while smartphone-based tracing suffers low adoption rates, due in part to privacy concerns. Furthermore, these solutions do not work effectively for health care workers a

Health care professionals can harness artificial intelligence safely and effectively by following a new set of patient and industry-agreed standards.

The incidence of thyroid cancer in São Paulo State, part of Brazil's relatively developed Southeast region, varies considerably according to socioeconomic status (education, poverty, wealth, income, segregation, mobility, and access to resources and services) and access to screening, but is highest in higher-income areas and the state capital. Mortality rates are similar across regions and income

Artificial intelligence can help health care systems under pressure allocate limited resources, but also lead to more unequal access. This is demonstrated by a research collaboration between the University of Copenhagen, Rigshospitalet and DTU that investigated whether AI can spot the risk of depression equally across different population segments. The research presents options for combing algorit

The leading causes of deaths worldwide are diseases that are not acquired through infection from other people but through a combination of individual physiology and lifestyle, the so-called "noncommunicable diseases" (NCDs). Diabetes, most cancers and most heart diseases are examples, and they disproportionally affect low- and middle-income countries, where they are on a dramatic rise because of u

A new study by UC Davis Health endocrinology researchers has shown a high prevalence of thyroid cancer among transgender female veterans. It's the first evidence of such a disparity in the transgender female population in the United States.

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, the Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC), and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology developed a collective intelligence approach to increase the accuracy of medical diagnoses. Their work was recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The rate of firearm homicides in the United States decreased in 2022, the first drop seen since a sharp increase emerged early in the pandemic, public health officials reported.

Pursuing fair artificial intelligence (AI) for health care requires collaboration between experts across disciplines, says a global team of scientists led by Duke-NUS Medical School in a new perspective published in npj Digital Medicine.

A recent study has found that Oregon middle school students received office discipline referrals (ODRs) for substance use offenses 30% more often after legalization of recreational marijuana relative to comparison schools in other states over the same period (school years 2012/2013–2018/2019). There were no statistically discernable changes in high school ODRs. Recreational use by adults was legal

A study of more than 1 million adults has found that in primary care, telemedicine visits were comparable to in-person visits for addressing most patient clinical concern areas. Telemedicine visits resulted in lower treatment rates and higher rates of follow-up health care use compared with in-person office visits, but these differences were small and varied by clinical condition. The findings are

ChatGPT, a sophisticated chatbot driven by artificial intelligence (AI) technology, has been increasingly used in health care contexts, one of which is assisting patients in self-diagnosing before seeking medical help.

Gun violence is tied to poverty, unemployment, broken families, disengaged youth and racial segregation, according to a study by the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center at Rutgers.

A RUDN University doctor named the reasons why nickel industry workers may develop several chronic diseases at once. The authors analyzed long-term data, identified the main risk factors, and suggested how to improve the situation. The results were published in the International Journal of Circumpolar Health.

The emergency department visit rate for assault was 4.5 visits per 1,000 people per year during 2019 to 2021, according to an October data brief published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics.

NDORMS researchers are leading the development of a roadmap, published in Nature Reviews Rheumatology, that provides a blueprint for building a single-cell resolution map of the human musculoskeletal system. The ambitious endeavor forms part of the international Human Cell Atlas, and aims to identify and spatially locate every cell within the human body.

Artificial intelligence, AI, which finds patterns in complex biological data could eventually contribute to the development of individually tailored health care. Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, have developed an AI-based method applicable to various medical and biological issues. Their models can for instance accurately estimate people's chronological age and determine whether they ha

Americans' life expectancy has been stagnant for over a decade, and much of the blame has been placed on "deaths of despair" among middle-aged adults. But a new study, published Oct. 9 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that chronic disease among older Americans is actually the biggest factor.

Models built on machine learning in health care can be victims of their own success, according to researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine and the University of Michigan. Their study assessed the impact of implementing predictive models on the subsequent performance of those and other models.

The increasing amount of data recorded in medical research can only lead to scientific breakthroughs and essential therapies for patients if interpreted and analyzed correctly. Computer scientists at Helmholtz Munich developed a generative model named scPoli (single-cell population level integration), that performs data integration of high-quality large-scale datasets of single cells to create val