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Automatic Detection of Osteoporosis in Electronic Consultation (eConsult) Service Using Natural Language Processing [Health care informatics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Large language model extracted important semantic patterns associated with osteoporosis cases in contrast with endocrinology such as risk of fracture, bisphosphonate, calcium hypercalcemia, prolia denosumab against insulin, diabetes, thyroid, testosterone, cortisol, adrenal, urine adenoma, prolactin, ozempic, glucose respectively.

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What every physician should know about care experience (and why it matters)

Permanente Medicine

So it’s not uncommon that many patients start to ask certain questions and I’m like, did you happen to consult with Dr. Google before coming to see me? Let’s say a diabetic comes in and they’re on metformin. The second thing that is different is access to information. If you type in any symptom, cancer comes up.

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Artificial Intelligence: Charlotta Lindvall, Matt DeCamp, Sei Lee

GeriPal

Audio: [electronic voice] Alex Smith has been taken over by an artificial intelligence. So there’s some stuff out there like that, but also using AI to determine who at high risk and should get a palliative care consult. Matt: We have seen pilot level studies, interventions like that one to do clinical ethics consultation.

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

GeriPal

Is that because they have higher rates of chronic conditions like diabetes, coronary disease, tobacco use, things like that, or is there something else that’s going on? Eric 29:17 Why do you think that is? Jace 29:27 I mean, so we don’t have a lot of great longitudinal research to explain this.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

He was a terrible diabetic. We consult all the time on patients who have advanced directors who say one thing and we’re in a situation where it’s clear they want to do something else. After he got out, he came to San Francisco to kind of start a new life, which began and ended in the tenderloin. His hands were gone.