Primary Care Intervention Improved Follow-Up of Abnormal Cancer Screening Results
A multilevel primary care intervention that included automated electronic health record (EHR) reminders and patient outreach/navigation improved timely follow-up of overdue abnormal cancer screening test results, a cluster randomized trial showed. Among nearly 12,000 patients with an abnormal screening test result for colorectal, cervical, breast, or lung cancer, completion of follow-up testing within 120 days […]
Ocular Capillary Ischemia Offers Early Warning of Diabetic Eye Disease Progression
An AI-driven automated optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) review system predicted progression of diabetic macular ischemia (DMI) with greater than 90% accuracy, a retrospective cohort study showed. DMI of the superficial capillary plexus at baseline more than doubled the risk of progression of diabetic retinopathy (DR), and DMI of the deep capillary plexus more than […]
Automated nutrition app can help people follow healthier diet
People could benefit from fully automated personal nutritional advice, as a new research paper shows that an app improved healthy diet in clinical trials. A paper published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research today (Mon 25 April 22) shows how the eNutri app developed by researchers in human nutrition and biomedical engineering at the […]