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The CONCERN Early Warning System (CONCERN EWS) is an artificial intelligence-based clinical decision support system (AI-CDSS) for the prediction of clinical deterioration, leveraging signals from nursing documentation patterns. While a recent multisite randomized controlled trial (RCT) demonstrated its effectiveness in reducing inpatient mortality and length of stay, evaluating implementation outcomes is essential to ensure equitable results across patient populations.This study aims to (1) assess whether clinicians' usage of the CONCERN [...]

The digitalization of health records stands to improve decision-making at clinical, administrative, and policy level. Efforts follow various paths and are closely intertwined with health system and organizational configurations. Problems persist in both uptake and use. This study explores the digitalization trajectories of academic health centers (AHCs) to understand tensions between organizational and government strategies and their impact on digital development.

Diagnosing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) remains a challenge due to symptom variability and comorbidities. Linguistic analysis offers an innovative approach to identify PTSD symptoms and severity. This systematic review aimed at identifying linguistic features associated with PTSD, assessing the quality and limitations of existing studies, summarizing the predictive performance of identified models, and describing the clinical utility of these models.

In dentistry, social determinants of health (SDoH) are potentially recorded in the clinical notes of electronic dental records. The objective of this study was to examine the availability of SDoH data in dental clinical notes and evaluate natural language processing methods to extract SDoH from dental clinical notes.A set of 1,000 dental clinical notes was sampled from a dataset of 105,311 patient visits to a dental clinic and manually annotated [...]

Online healthcare portals provide access to electronic health information and support clinical communication. Almost no studies have examined perspectives on parental portal access. We aimed to characterize parental and adolescent perspectives on parental portal access.Semi-structured interviews with 51 dyads of parents and adolescents (102 total interviews). We stratified sampling for equal proportions of adolescents with and without chronic illnesses. We analyzed interview transcripts using thematic analysis.Parents and adolescents identified several [...]

Intrahospital patient transport is pivotal in enabling hospital operations and facilitating safe and efficient patient movement. However, transport delays are common in hospitals, signaling a need for improvement. This study develops, implements, and evaluates a proximity-based transporter-to-request assignment system aimed at improving transport service system efficiency.

The patient-facing ASTHMAXcel mobile platform has been linked to improved asthma knowledge decreased asthma-related health care utilization (emergency department [ED] visits, hospitalizations), and reduced prednisone use among adult and pediatric patient populations.Given the upfront costs associated with developing mobile health platforms, this paper seeks to estimate the savings attributable to pediatric and adult users of the ASTHMAXcel platform through decreased hospitalizations, ED visits, and prednisone use.Forty adult patients and 39 [...]

This study sought to characterize how a population experienced health-related social needs (HRSNs) over time.We employed hidden Markov modeling using data extracted from a natural language processing state machine from 2018 to 2020 to examine whether a patient experienced any food, legal, transportation, employment, financial, or housing needs. Characteristics of patients transitioning into low/high-risk states were compared. We also identified the frequency at which patients transitioned according to their risk [...]

Globally, health information system (HIS) development projects face challenges regarding technology infrastructure, financing, user resistance, and interoperability. While these challenges are well-described in literature, most studies on HIS digitalization focus on the development of national and hospital HISs, with little focus on HISs in primary care. We described the HISs of two primary care clinics in Manila, Philippines in terms of data management procedures, governance, training and equipment, information culture [...]

Hypertension is a chronic condition defined by persistent high blood pressure (BP) that contribute to significant morbidity and mortality. Evidence-based clinical guidelines provide recommendations for the diagnosis and management of hypertension. These recommendations are frequently incorporated into clinical decision support (CDS) tools used by clinicians. CDS tools can also be oriented toward patients but careful attention to the development process is required to make a useful, usable, and engaging digital [...]