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Electronic Medical Records May Hold Early Signs of Bipolar Disorder in Adults
TUESDAY, Nov. 7, 2023 -- Psychiatric diagnoses, psychotropic prescriptions, and health service use patterns might be signals of undiagnosed bipolar disorder (BD), according to a study published online Oct. 11 in the British Journal of General... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - November 7, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Clinical characteristics, support system, and personality differences of cannabis and stimulant users in South Korea - Jang J, Kim Y.
This study was based on electronic medical records. Among a total of 152 subjects who suspected of d... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 31, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Disparities in misclassification of race and ethnicity in electronic medical records among patients with traumatic injury - Conrick KM, Mills B, Schreuder AB, Wardak W, Vil CS, Dotolo D, Bulger EM, Arbabi S, Vavilala MS, Moore M, Rowhani-Rahbar A.
Systems-level barriers to self-reporting of race and ethnicity reduce the integrity of data entered into the medical record and trauma registry among patients with injuries, limiting research assessing the burden of racial disparities. We sought to charact... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Why It Takes Forever to Get a Doctor ’ s Appointment
Recently I faced consoling a patient of mine who couldn’t understand why I was unable to “hop on the phone” to discuss her new back pain. When she finally got an appointment with me weeks later, I decided to be honest. I shared that I had 1,300 patients who call me their primary doctor. After I’m done seeing patients at 5 PM, I tend to 50 to 100 messages and notifications. I take three to four hours of work home with me every night. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] I didn’t share these stats to elicit sympathy, but soon our roles had reversed. My patient overflowed with apologi...
Source: TIME: Health - September 12, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ilana Yurkiewicz Tags: Uncategorized freelance Source Type: news

Care New England taps IBM spinoff to modernize medical records
A Rhode Island-based hospital group is partnering with a global IT services firm to consolidate and modernize its legacy electronic medical records. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - August 21, 2023 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news

Oracle's Health Unit Faces Major Downsizing Post-Cerner Acquisition Amid Industry Trends
On Thursday, Oracle Corp (NYSE: ORCL) let go of hundreds of employees, retracted job offers, and cut back open positions within its health unit. The health unit includes electronic medical records firm Cerner which it acquired for $28.3 billion in December 2022. Cerner's challenged work with the…#oraclecorp #orcl #cerner #oracle #amazon #cominc #metaplatformsinc #meta (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - June 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

An analysis of Chinese nursing electronic medical records to predict violence in psychiatric inpatients using text mining and machine learning techniques - Hu YH, Hung JH, Hu LY, Huang SY, Shen CC.
BACKGROUND: The prevalence of violence in acute psychiatric wards is a critical concern. According to a meta-analysis investigating violence in psychiatric inpatient units, researchers estimated that approximately 17% of inpatients commit one or more acts ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - June 9, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Occupational Issues Source Type: news

Methodologic approaches for using electronic medical records to identify experiences of violence in transgender and cisgender people: closing the gap between diagnostic coding and lived experiences - Alpert AB, Sayegh SJ, Strawderman M, Cunliffe S, Griggs JJ, Cerulli C.
BACKGROUND: Transgender people experience extreme rates of violence and the electronic medical record (EMR) remains a mostly untapped resource to study the medical sequelae of such experiences. OBJECTIVES: To develop and test a method for identifyi... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 21, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Baptist Health Innovations and COTA collaboration adds new technology for cancer care
Physicians at Baptist Health Miami Cancer Institute now have access to RWE (real-world evidence), thanks to a relationship with COTA — a leading provider of oncology real-world data and analytics. The Miami Cancer Institute leadership team first engaged with COTA at Hackensack Meridian Hospital. They attended a presentation by COTA and liked their vision for extracting medical data from electronic medical records. COTA later spun off from Hackensack as a startup company. Dr. Leonard Kalman,… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - April 1, 2023 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Baptist Health Innovations Source Type: news

Validation of diagnosis codes in healthcare databases in Taiwan, a literature review - Huang YT, Wei T, Huang YL, Wu YP, Chan KA.
PURPOSE: To compile validation findings of diagnosis codes and related algorithms for health outcomes of interest from National Health Insurance (NHI) or electronic medical records in Taiwan. METHODS: We carried out a literature review of English a... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 13, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news

Buprenorphine Proves Effective for Fentanyl Users in the ED Buprenorphine Proves Effective for Fentanyl Users in the ED
A review of electronic medical records showed similar follow-up engagement for patients with opioid use disorder who did and did not report fentanyl use.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Psychiatry Headlines)
Source: Medscape Psychiatry Headlines - March 9, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Emergency Medicine News Source Type: news

Corrigendum to: Use of electronic medical records to monitor the safe and effective prescribing of medicinal cannabis: is it feasible? - Hallinan CM, Gunn JM, Qian Y, Bonomo YA.
BACKGROUND: General practitioners are well positioned to contribute to the pharmacovigilance of medical cannabis via the general practice electronic medical record (EMR). The aim of this research is to interrogate de-identified patient data from the Patron... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 20, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Long Covid Might Teach Us How to Prevent Alzheimer ’s
A new study, published last week and summarized in Science, used a vast trove of electronic medical records to find thousands of people with neurodegenerative diseases and tease out correlations with 22 different kinds of infections. The biggest viral risk factor for dementia was encephalitis,…#science #hpv #epsteinbarr #avindranath #liberia #nath #als #herv #danchertow #nih (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 28, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Study links viral infections to Alzheimer ’s, Parkinson’s—with many caveats
A massive data mining study has found numerous associations between common viruses like the flu and devastating neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease). The findings expand on previous research linking individual viruses to neurological diseases. But experts caution that the study, which relied on electronic medical records rather than biological samples, merely describes correlations and doesn’t prove causation. Still, it’s “really exciting,” says Kristen Funk, a neuroimmunologist who studi...
Source: ScienceNOW - January 19, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news

Electronic Medical Records – Love Or Hate Them, Just Be Mindful
EMRs are terrific tools. They must be utilized with care to ensure "clinical noise" is managed. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - January 9, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Jeff Gorke, Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation Source Type: news