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SWOG -- nCartes Leap Day Webinar Conveys a Leap Forward
The SWOG-nCartes Electronic Health Record (EHR)-to-Electronic Data Capture (EDC) Collaboration held a webinar on February 29th to educate SWOG clinical research sites on the SWOG-nCartes opportunity. SEATTLE and FREMONT, Calif., March 14, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The SWOG-nCartes... (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - March 14, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Knowing When to Start, Knowing When to Stop
(MedPage Today) -- No matter what we do, there never seems to be a perfect answer. That's why they call it "the art of medicine." Built into our electronic health record (EHR) are multiple best practice alerts, recommendations based on a patient... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - March 11, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Social factors influence adherence to incidental lung nodule follow-up
Social factors influence whether patients who are found to have incidental lung nodules on chest CT imaging adhere to follow-up, according to research published March 8 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. And using a deep-learning model that incorporates demographic, socioeconomic, and nodule-related factors could help predict whether patients will comply with follow-up recommendations, wrote a team led by Zhuoyang Wang of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. "Our study demonstrates that clinical context and socioeconomic factors can predict a patient’s incidental pulmonary nodule follow-up...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 11, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: Subspecialties CT Chest Radiology Source Type: news

Social factors affect adherence to incidental lung nodule follow-up
Social factors influence whether patients who are found to have incidental lung nodules on chest CT imaging adhere to follow-up, according to research published March 8 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. And using a deep-learning model that incorporates demographic, socioeconomic, and nodule-related factors could help predict whether patients will comply with follow-up recommendations, wrote a team led by Zhuoyang Wang of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. "Our study demonstrates that clinical context and socioeconomic factors can predict a patient’s incidental pulmonary nodule follow-up...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 11, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: Subspecialties CT Chest Radiology Source Type: news

NLP model used with radiology reports identifies PE patients
A natural language processing (NLP)-based model using information from radiology reports can accurately identify patients presenting in the emergency department (ED) with suspected pulmonary embolism (PE), researchers have found. The study results could help clinicians determine appropriate treatment, wrote a team led by Krunal Amin, MD, of Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, NC. The group's findings were published March 2 in the Annals of Emergency Medicine. "[Our work suggests that] a natural language processing-based clinical decision support tool … can identify patients presenting to the emergency departm...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 6, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: Imaging Informatics Source Type: news

Researchers Are Using AI to Find New Alzheimer ’ s Risk Factors
Brain experts have a pretty good handle on some of the major risk factors that contribute to Alzheimer’s—from a person’s genes to their physical activity levels, how much formal education they’ve received, and how socially engaged they are. But one promise of AI in medicine is that it can spot less obvious links that humans can’t always see. Could AI help uncover conditions linked to Alzheimer’s that have so far been overlooked? [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] To find out, Marina Sirota and her team at University of California San Francisco (UCSF) ran a machine-lear...
Source: TIME: Health - March 5, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

Regulatory issues facing radiology groups in 2024
Sandy Coffta.Regulatory issues facing radiology groups in 2024 We pay a lot of attention to government regulation in healthcare, especially the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS), which influences reimbursement not only from Medicare but also from other payers as many commercial contracts are tied to the MPFS. Although it is the object of most focus, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is not the only agency that regulates healthcare. MPFS As of this writing, Medicare reimbursement for 2024 is nominally 3.4% lower across the board than it was in 2023 due to the statutory calculation that goes i...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - February 27, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Sandy Coffta Tags: Practice Management Source Type: news

Topic evolution before fall incidents in new fallers through natural language processing of general practitioners' clinical notes - Dormosh N, Abu-Hanna A, Calixto I, Schut MC, Heymans MW, van der Velde N.
BACKGROUND: Falls involve dynamic risk factors that change over time, but most studies on fall-risk factors are cross-sectional and do not capture this temporal aspect. The longitudinal clinical notes within electronic health records (EHR) provide an oppor... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 19, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news

Doctor'Alert' Warnings Helped One Health System Reduce Unnecessary Tests
MONDAY, Feb. 12, 2024 -- The doctor tapped at his computer, ordering a routine prostate exam for an 80-year-old man, when a dramatic yellow alert popped up on the patient ’s electronic health record.“You are ordering a test that no guideline... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - February 12, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news

Artificial Intelligence Versus Sir William Osler
(MedPage Today) -- Much has been written about changes to the electronic health record over the past few years, especially updates that attempt to make our clinical notes reflect more of their original intentions. The standard SOAP note was created... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - February 12, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Early results of an initiative to assess exposure to firearm violence in ambulatory care: descriptive analysis of electronic health record data - Cook N, Hoopes M, Biel FM, Cartwright N, Gordon M, Sills M.
BACKGROUND: Current research on firearm violence is largely limited to patients who received care in emergency departments or inpatient acute care settings or who died. This is because standardized disease classification codes for firearm injury only repr... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 8, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news

Erectile Dysfunction Drugs Tied to Less Alzheimer's Risk
(MedPage Today) -- Erectile dysfunction drugs were associated with reduced risk of Alzheimer's disease, electronic health record (EHR) data from 270,000 men in the U.K. suggested. Over a median follow-up of about 5 years, men who started taking... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - February 7, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

Healthy Activities Save Kids ’ Lives. Why Are They So Hard to Find?
It was a quiet Saturday morning, and as a pediatrician who had a busy week, that meant it was the perfect time to cozy up with a large mug of coffee at my kitchen table and make my way through the many lab results that had come into the electronic health record inbox since the previous day. I may not be setting a great example of work-life balance. But clinic days are filled with seeing patients, teaching trainees, and answering questions from our care team. Saturdays are the only time I’m able to give patients and their families undivided attention and no-rush answers. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”tru...
Source: TIME: Health - February 2, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Julia Rosenberg Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

Predicting suicide death after emergency department visits with mental health or self-harm diagnoses - Simon GE, Johnson E, Shortreed SM, Ziebell RA, Rossom RC, Ahmedani BK, Coleman KJ, Beck A, Lynch FL, Daida YG.
OBJECTIVE: Use health records data to predict suicide death following emergency department visits. METHODS: Electronic health records and insurance claims from seven health systems were used to: identify emergency department visits with mental heal... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 29, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

An electronic teen questionnaire, the eTeenQ, for risk behavior screening during adolescent well visits in an integrated health system: development and pilot implementation - Neale S, Chrenka E, Muthineni A, Sharma R, Hall ML, Tillema J, Kharbanda EO.
BACKGROUND: Screening for risk behaviors is a routine and essential component of adolescent preventive health visits. Early identification of risks can inform targeted counseling and care. If stored in discrete fields in the electronic health record (EHR),... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 29, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news