Telemedicine-based HAH care may benefit older patients | AI can help health care contact centers boost efficiency | Physician says AI has not yet reduced physician burnout
August 26, 2024
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A study in PLOS ONE found that for acutely ill older patients, telemedicine-based hospital-at-home care may reduce hospital lengths of stay and mortality rates without increasing readmissions. The hospital-at-home model included daily telemedicine visits from internal medicine specialists, in-person nursing care and remote monitoring.
Full Story: McKnight's Long-Term Care News (8/24) 
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Clinical Informatics & Analytics
AI can help health care contact centers boost efficiency
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Rising demand for services and ongoing staff shortages are driving health care contact centers to automate more, embracing the use of AI platforms to streamline processes. Medical AI chatbots, omnichannel communication platforms and tools that support remote patient monitoring are some uses of the technology. "Automating with AI-powered tools so that people can focus on more complex tasks is the most significant trend right now," said Amit Barave of Cisco Webex.
Full Story: HealthTech (8/23) 
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Despite advancements in AI technology, it has yet to reduce physician workload and burnout, pulmonary and critical care physician Tina Shah said at the Ending Clinician Burnout Global Community summit. "The promise is that technology can help minimize the extraneous load, but it hasn't," Shah said, and added that reducing administrative burdens using new technology such as AI is important to minimizing provider burnout.
Full Story: Healio (free registration) (8/22) 
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Health Data Science & Artificial Intelligence
A study published in the Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal found that the large language model GPT-4 can accurately analyze interventional radiology adverse event data. The AI tool had an 86.4% accuracy rate in classifying cases, suggesting its potential to assist clinicians in designing interventions.
Full Story: Radiology Business (8/23) 
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AI models trained using genetic sequences offer the promise of helping to create new medications and vaccines, but biosecurity experts also are concerned they could eventually lead to new or evolved pathogens. Governments should evaluate models trained on biological or sensitive data, they said, and companies and institutions should screen customers and orders. But for now, large language models don't have access to enough data to train them to create a bioweapon.
Full Story: Axios (8/23) 
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Population Health
Massachusetts officials issued warnings about an increased risk of the Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus carried by infected mosquitos. Ten communities have been elevated to high or critical risk, prompting aerial and truck-mounted spraying. The CDC says that while most infected individuals do not develop symptoms, severe cases can lead to encephalitis.
Full Story: The Hill (8/25) 
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CDC Director Mandy Cohen urged all people ages 6 months and older to get the updated mRNA COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer next month or in October, adding that co-administration of the influenza and COVID-19 vaccines is highly encouraged. The CDC's Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics predicts that combined peak hospitalization for influenza, RSV and COVID-19 will be similar or lower in this year's respiratory season compared with last year.
Full Story: MedPage Today (free registration) (8/23) 
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