Clinical prediction models (CPMs) are tools that compute the risk of an outcome given a set of patient characteristics and are routinely used to inform patients, guide treatment decision-making, and resource allocation. Although much…
Continue Reading
What You Should Know: – PreciseDx®, a leader in AI-powered diagnostics for oncology, announces a crucial collaboration with UCLA’s Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. – The research initiative focuses on evaluating PreciseDx’s innovative…
Continue Reading
Breast cancer diagnoses among women under 50 have steadily risen, particularly in recent years, driven by estrogen-receptor-positive tumors, according to a study by Washington University School of Medicine. The research, spanning 2000 to 2019,…
Continue Reading
New research was published this month showing racial disparities in obesity care and underscoring the need for a more holistic, community-based approach to weight loss treatment. The study found that even though services like…
Continue Reading
While healthcare providers are certainly excited about generative AI and its potential to alleviate clinical and operational inefficiencies in the field, they are also carefully considering how to mitigate risk associated with the use…
Continue Reading
Racial disparities in hospice care are well documented for patients with cancer, but the existence, direction, and extent of disparity findings are contradictory across the literature. Current methods to identify racial disparities aggregate data…
Continue Reading
By Hannah Nelson
October 09, 2023 – Patients from racial and ethnic minority groups were more likely to receive a lower amount of EHR engagement during inpatient stays compared to White patients, according to a study published…
Continue Reading
A U.S. senator penned a letter to Google leadership on Tuesday expressing concerns about Med-PaLM 2 — the company’s generative AI tool for healthcare providers that is currently being used by Mayo Clinic and…
Continue Reading
By Mark Melchionna
June 05, 2023 – Published in the Journal of Counseling and Development, a study from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) found that mental healthcare quality did not decline and accessibility improved…
Continue Reading
By Shania Kennedy
May 23, 2023 – Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms used to screen for and predict type 2 diabetes may be racially biased, which could perpetuate health disparities, according to a study published last week…
Continue Reading
