by Regenstrief Institute Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Fairbanks School of Public Health researchers found that popular electronic health record (EHR) screening questionnaires may miss many patients experiencing housing instability and financial strain. “More and more health care organizations are interested in screening their patients for social risk factors, or sometimes what are referred to as the social determinants of...
by The Mount Sinai Hospital Mount Sinai scientists created an AI-based, automated system that learns to read patient data from electronic health records. Here the system identified dementia cases (purple dots) from a database of nearly 2 million patients (blue dots). Credit: Glicksberg lab, Mount Sinai, N.Y., N.Y. In an article published in the journal Patterns, scientists...
by Frank Otto, University of Pennsylvania Credit: University of Pennsylvania It is not shocking to anyone that fat molecules are tied to heart conditions. Lipids, a term for fatty acids and their derivatives, are the subject of countless papers when it comes to cardiovascular disease. If you’re studying lipids, there’s a good chance you’re studying it...
by Columbia University Irving Medical Center Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Diagnosing chronic kidney disease, which is often undetected until it causes irreversible damage, may soon become automated with a new algorithm that interprets data from electronic medical records. The algorithm, developed by researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, automatically scours a patient’s electronic...
BRIGHAM AND WOMEN’S HOSPITAL Each year, health care practitioners at Brigham and Women’s Hospital place over a million orders through the electronic health records (EHR) system. Even though studies indicate that practitioners place more than 99.9 percent of orders for the correct patients, researchers at the Brigham analyzed that remaining 0.1 percent to determine and...
FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY IMAGE: JANET ROBISHAW, PH.D., CO-AUTHOR, SENIOR ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR RESEARCH AND CHAIR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES IN FAU’S SCHMIDT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE. CREDIT: ALEX DOLCE, FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY Opioid use disorder affects about 2 million Americans each year and is the No. 1 cause of accidental death. Between 50 to...
