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Automation of clinical orders in electronic health records (EHRs) has the potential to reduce clinician burden and enhance patient safety. However, determining which orders are appropriate for automation requires a structured framework to ensure clinical validity, transparency, and safety.

Rule-based structured data algorithms and natural language processing (NLP) approaches applied to unstructured clinical notes have limited accuracy and poor generalizability for identifying immunosuppression. Large language models (LLMs) may effectively identify patients with heterogenous types of immunosuppression from unstructured clinical notes. We compared the performance of LLMs applied to unstructured notes for identifying patients with immunosuppressive conditions or immunosuppressive medication use against 2 baselines: (1) structured data algorithms using diagnosis [...]

Building upon our previous work on predicting treatment retention in medications for opioid use disorder, we aimed to improve 6-month retention prediction in buprenorphine-naloxone (BUP-NAL) therapy by incorporating features derived from large language models (LLMs) applied to unstructured clinical notes.

Text embeddings are promising for semantic tasks, such as retrieval augmented generation (RAG). However, their application in health care is underexplored due to a lack of benchmarking methods. We introduce a scalable benchmarking method to test embeddings for health-care semantic tasks.

The objective of this study is to evaluate retrieval-augmented prediction for forecasting hospital length of stay (LOS) following surgery compared to traditional machine learning (ML), standalone large language models (LLMs), and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) approaches.

Externalizing behaviors in children, such as aggression, hyperactivity, and defiance, are influenced by complex interplays between genetic predispositions and environmental factors, particularly parental behaviors. Unraveling these intricate causal relationships can benefit from the use of robust data-driven methods.

To use more precise measures of which hospitals are electronically connected to determine whether health information exchange (HIE) is associated with lower emergency department (ED)-related utilization.

The number of ethical frameworks designed to guide artificial intelligence (AI) use has grown substantially over the past decade, yet their real-world effect remains unclear. We aimed to synthesize existing evidence to analyze the practical impact of AI ethics frameworks (AIEFs) operationalized in healthcare.