Motives for the hesitancy are several—transportation concerns, informational inadequacies, historical wrongs—but effective resolutions can be quite simple.

The hope is that the GPT-4-based notes assistant will ease the burden of manual charting on physicians while also offering patients more personalized visit summaries, Carbon Health announced June 5. 

“This research shows the clear financial benefits when hospitals and health systems offer telemedicine services directly to their own employees."

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

Radiology reports are typically written in language well above the average American adult’s eighth grade reading level, making them a source of confusion for patients.

Clinicians only want the information they need to make treatment decisions, rather than advice on what actions they should take, the survey found. 

"Large language models make the development of ‘smart hospitals’ not only a possibility, but a reality,” said Eric Oermann, MD, an assistant professor in NYU's Department of Radiology. 

Someday, getting an MRI exam could be as simple as having food delivered to your door—at least that is the hope of a group of experts at the University of Minnesota who are working on a compact system said to be small enough to sit in the bed of a truck.