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Due to the ceaseless rush of technological advancements into medicine, many future physicians graduate medical school underprepared for the digital healthcare environment.
Citing evidence from documents and interviews, the Guardian released an exposé accusing UnitedHealth of directly influencing the day-to-day operations of some 2,000 nursing homes, resulting in patients not receiving necessary emergency care.
When paired with willing older adults, talking AI can administer and assess preliminary dementia tests in much the same way—and with similar effectiveness—as human specialists.
In court documents, an unnamed Minnesota woman said that in 2022, she was admitted to an Allina Health hospital and scheduled for the removal of her infected spleen, only for an error to result in her left kidney being removed instead.
As TAVR continues to grow in popularity, researchers noted, it becomes more and more important to know how different complications impact long-term outcomes.
Many if not most hospitals and other provider organizations take a decided interest in what their peer institutions are doing with AI. A major motivator for the keen curiosity is gauging how well one is keeping up with the Joneses. So to speak.
Researchers tracked patient outcomes through the use of 15 performance measures related to hypertension, coronary artery disease, heart failure and atrial fibrillation.
Among the myriad processes to which AI could be meaningfully applied in healthcare, perhaps few are more easily overlooked than discharging patients from the hospital.