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 Patients with cirrhosis are at high risk for developing hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), warranting receipt of semiannual surveillance imaging with the potential to identify abnormal liver lesions. Since the implementation of the 21st Century Cures Act's Information Blocking provision, test results are immediately released to patients through the patient portal. There is an increasing trend of patients reviewing their results before their providers.

 This study seeks to understand pediatric rheumatology patients' and caregivers' utilization and perceptions of immediate access to their electronic health information (EHI) via patient portals.

 Drug-drug interaction (DDI) alerts in electronic systems are frequently implemented to minimize the occurrence of preventable DDIs. While prescribers recognize the potential benefits of DDI alerts, a large proportion are overridden by users.

 Effective data management is critical in medical informatics research, ensuring the success and integrity of clinical studies. However, students often lack comprehensive training in this area, highlighting the need for tailored educational programs.

 Healthcare provider burnout is a critical issue with significant implications for individual well-being, patient care, and healthcare system efficiency. Addressing burnout is essential for improving both provider well-being and the quality of patient care. Ambient artificial intelligence (AI) offers a novel approach to mitigating burnout by reducing the documentation burden through advanced speech recognition and natural language processing technologies that summarize the patient encounter into a clinical note to be [...]

The use of electronic health records (EHRs) in research demands robust and interoperable systems. By linking biorepositories to EHR algorithms, researchers can efficiently identify cases and controls for large observational studies (e.g., genome-wide association studies). This is critical for ensuring efficient and cost-effective research. However, the lack of standardized metadata and algorithms across different EHRs complicates their sharing and application. Our study presents an example of a successful implementation and [...]

 Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in various professional fields, including medicine and law. However, their performance in highly specialized tasks, such as extracting ICD-10-CM codes from patient notes, remains underexplored.

 The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced changes in outpatient and inpatient evaluation and management (E/M) current procedural terminology (CPT) codes in 2021 and 2023, which were intended to streamline providers' clinical documentation.

 This study aimed to assist residents in selecting the correct Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code for evaluation and management (E/M) services through the addition of disappearing help text into a standardized note template.

 To keep pace with the developments in the medical informatics field, the curriculum of the Heidelberg/Heilbronn Medical Informatics Master of Science program is continuously updated. In its latest revision we restructured our master's program to allow more flexibility to accommodate updates and include current topics and to enable students' choices.