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This case report describes the implementation and outcomes of robotic process automation (RPA) interventions used as an electronic health record (EHR)-based reliability layer for 2 inpatient quality initiatives: First Contact Provider (FCP) assignment and admission medication reconciliation (AMR) within 24 hours.

Patient portal messaging connects patients with their healthcare teams but is underused by Spanish-speaking patients.

BACKGROUND: Large language models can return citations whose PubMed Identifier (PMID), digital object identifier (DOI), title, and journal appear plausible but identify different papers. Checking one valid identifier may therefore fail to detect an incorrect citation bundle.

BACKGROUND: Outpatient antibiotic prescribing often deviates from local guidelines despite the availability of institutional pathways and antibiograms. Limited integration of these resources into clinical workflow may reduce their effect on point-of-care decision-making.

BACKGROUND: Falls are a leading cause of morbidity, functional decline, and premature care entry among older adults. Assistive living technologies (ALTs) are increasingly used for fall prevention, detection, and risk monitoring, but their value depends on how older adults, caregivers, and care staff experience them in practice.

BACKGROUND: The rapid expansion of digital health care technologies has substantially transformed nursing practice and has been accompanied by growing concerns regarding technology-related stress and burnout among nurses. Despite the growing body of literature, the intellectual structure and thematic evolution of this field remain insufficiently explored from a bibliometric perspective.

BACKGROUND: Patient safety reporting studies usually examine intention, submitted reports, or reporting rates, leaving unclear what happens after a report is started but before it is submitted, deleted, or left unfinished. We evaluated whether autosave and fixed-time reminders make this hidden stage observable.

BACKGROUND: The use of large language model (LLM)-based artificial intelligence (AI) to assess the quality of outpatient mental health documentation represents an understudied application. Critical questions remain about the effects of exposing human auditors to AI-generated recommendations on auditor efficiency, agreement, and patterns of decision-making.

BACKGROUND: Open foundation models designed for on-device and edge deployment, exemplified by the Qwen 3.5 small series (March 2, 2026) and Gemma 4 (April 2, 2026), challenge the default of routing all clinical natural language processing through commercial cloud application programming interfaces (APIs).

OBJECTIVE: Developing technology may assist paramedics in the competing tasks of providing life-saving care and accurately documenting that care. The objective of this study was to identify and classify paramedic user requirements for speech recognition (SR)-aided documentation.