Telehealth only partially offset decreased primary care visits during pandemic
Jul 23, 2024
The magnitude of those changes varied significantly by patient demographic characteristics.
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.
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...
High telehealth use tied to increased healthcare utilization, cost
May 14, 2024
Areas of high telehealth use also had more ambulatory care-sensitive hospitalizations.
AI may help predict mortality in dementia patients
Mar 05, 2024
The prediction was feasible across time frames using certain clinical features.
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.
Ethnic disparity seen when diagnosing bacterial vaginosis using AI
Dec 27, 2023
The models perform least effectively for Hispanic and Asian women when evaluating false-positive and false-negative rates.
Mobile device may ID wound infections earlier
Aug 30, 2023
The device combines photography, infrared thermography and bacterial fluorescence images.