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Using technology to reclaim our time

Today's Hospitalist

Suggest differential diagnoses: Based on a patient’s symptoms and history, the AI could offer potential diagnoses for hospitalists to consider, aiding in the decision-making process. Metrics for assessing physician activity using electronic health record log data. Published May 13, 2024. Healthcare (Basel).

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Many Older People Embrace Vaccines. Research Is Proving Them Right.

Physician's Weekly

In analyzing electronic health records for almost 800,000 patients, the researchers found the vaccines to be 75% effective against acute infection, meaning illness that was serious enough to send a patient to a health care provider. .” “We keep seeing this in one dataset after another,” Geldsetzer said.

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Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

PEMBlog

Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2024 Jan-. You won’t be able to diagnose them on history and physical alone. And biochemical testing is really needed in most cases to independently diagnose a specific IEM. You can contact her via email at egroopman@childrensnational.org. Inborn Errors of Metabolism.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

She was resuscitated by EMS, but did not regain higher brain function, and was eventually diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state. Bernie Lo discloses being an Honorarium Recipient and consultant for Takeda starting on 01/23/2024. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

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The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Medicine: Guest Bob Wachter

GeriPal

And I wonder, now, was this 2024 version sort of a redo? The results were that the chat bots got the diagnoses right and had an escalation strategy that was better than the doctors, as judged by blinded specialists reading the transcripts. That’s a risk with electronic health records in general. They had no idea.

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

GeriPal

So, for example, everyone who was diagnosed with an advanced or metastatic lung cancer had a prognosis on the order of months. Eric 16:38 So everybody was diagnosed with an advanced lung cancer sometime in the last twelve weeks and then they were randomized. This 2024 is the year of AI. Here’s what I really want to know.

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Pragmatic Trial of ACP: Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson

GeriPal

And interesting enough, this is a really fascinating study that just got published in JAMA I M in December of 2024. So we sent that to everyone 65 and older with upcoming visits, though we were tracking on our side the people who had diagnoses and things. Alex 03:54 Very generous. Eric 03:57 Okay, we got a lot to talk about.