2021 to 2022 saw decrease in telemedicine use in past 12 months
Jun 20, 2024
Among adults aged 65 years and older, those who only had Medicare were less likely to use telemedicine.
9.6 percent of medical visits took place via telehealth in 2021
Jun 03, 2024
The percentage of telehealth visits was higher for mental health than other clinicians.
High telehealth use tied to increased healthcare utilization, cost
May 14, 2024
Areas of high telehealth use also had more ambulatory care-sensitive hospitalizations.
Use of CT angiogram on the rise for headache, dizziness in emergency department
Apr 17, 2024
There was a 67.4% increase in head and neck computed tomography angiography ordering for emergency department patients from 2017 to 2021.
AI tools help predict complications following lower-extremity fracture
Apr 10, 2024
XGBoost was identified as the optimal model, achieving average test AUC of 0.90 before the synthetic minority oversampling technique.
AI provides mostly accurate answers to primary care questions
Apr 09, 2024
The authors say the findings still emphasize the importance of viewing AI tools as complementary resources when seeking medical information.
ChatGPT capable of clinical reasoning — maybe better than clinicians
Apr 04, 2024
The study builds on early AI studies showing that chatbots could make diagnoses.
HHS opens investigation into UnitedHealth cyberattack
Mar 14, 2024
Following a cyberattack on one of the nation’s largest health insurers that’s thrown healthcare payments into disarray and likely exposed reams of private patient data, the US Department of...
Higher use of healthcare portal seen during COVID-19 pandemic
Mar 06, 2024
Lower portal activity was linked to older age, female sex and for Hispanic/Latinx, non-Hispanic Black and other race patients.
AI may help predict mortality in dementia patients
Mar 05, 2024
The prediction was feasible across time frames using certain clinical features.