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Using gen AI to translate medical jargon in discharge notes

March 13, 2024 - Using too much medical jargon in discharge notes may not be conducive to patient engagement, but researchers from NYU Langone are exploring how generative AI can fix that problem. In a new study published in JAMA Network Open, the researchers showed that generative AI can effectively lower the reading level of discharge notes from an 11th-grade...


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Out-of-pocket costs for patient portal messages reach $25

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It’s getting increasingly common for healthcare providers to bill for patient portal messages, and it’s leaving some patients on the hook for an out-of-pocket bill, albeit the bill is...

Did COVID-19 Help Close Disparities in Patient Portal Use?

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The COVID-19 pandemic may have increased patient portal use and reduced age- and sex-based utilization disparities, but there are still differences in how often people of certain races and health...

OpenNotes Sets Sights on AI in Healthcare with New OpenNotes Lab

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OpenNotes, the patient advocacy group that’s historically led the charge for better patient data access, is dipping its toes in the AI waters with OpenNotes Labs, an initiative to understand how...

Patient Portals & Open Notes Increase Referral Access by Up to 40%

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Does patient portal access make a difference in referral access after a primary care appointment? According to one new study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), it...

Patient Trust in Healthcare AI Relies on Use Case, But Familiarity Is Lacking

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Do patients trust AI in healthcare? It depends on what it’s being used for, 44 percent of patients said in a recent athenahealth/Dynata poll that was emailed to PatientEngagementHIT. But even as...

How Can AI Chatbots Help Docs Tailor Patient Education?

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A sample of three studies presented at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) is casting doubt on AI chatbots’ and large language models’ abilities...

Are Consumers Left Behind in Healthcare’s Generative AI Talks?

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In the throes of the insurgence of generative AI, healthcare has a huge blind spot: consumers. In a new report from Deloitte, experts found that most healthcare organizations are leaving behind the...

YouTube Unveils Public Health & First Aid Education Videos

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YouTube wants to help viewers learn first aid with a new slate of videos the social media and online video platform has posted to promote public health and first aid education. The move comes as a...

Patients Leery of GenAI for Medical Misinformation Potential

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Four in 10 adults acknowledge that generative AI is ready for the healthcare big leagues, but most still harbor pretty significant concerns about the accuracy and sourcing of the medical information...

CVS Health’s Consumer App Targets Disease Management, Patient Engagement

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CVS Health wants its new consumer app to super charge patient engagement and care and disease management, with the company airing a new video outlining the tool at its investor meeting. “Imagine...

AI-Based Voice Assistants Poised to Support Chronic Disease Management

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Conversational artificial intelligence (AI) could be the key to unlocking better chronic disease management, with new data in JAMA Network Open showing that a voice assistant tool improved glycemic...

Can Gen AI Improve Access to Care, Affordability? Patients Think So

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Patients are excited about the future of generative AI in healthcare, as nearly half say the technology can improve patient access to care and healthcare affordability, according to a survey from...

Health Orgs Look for Consolidated Patient Engagement Tech Footprint

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Patient engagement technology vendors can expect a shifting landscape as their customer base looks toward a more consolidated, consumer-centered patient engagement strategy, according to the latest...

How to Achieve Patient Portal ‘Techquity’ & Digital Health Equity

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A group of health IT academics is laying out the argument for closing the digital divide, saying that achieving what they termed as “techquity” in patient portal adoption is actually...

Digital Patient Experience, Engagement Split by Patient Demographics

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The digital patient experience is becoming more important than ever, with new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) figures showing that more than half of patients use the internet to find...

Better Patient Experience Needed for Trust in SDOH Data Sharing

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Healthcare professionals need to determine what it’ll take for patients to trust the exchange of their social determinants of health (SDOH) data, including looking into improving patient...

Patient Data Access, Mobile Patient Portals Reach Unprecedented Use

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Patient data access is at an all-time high, with new data from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT showing three in five patients being offered and accessing their digital health...

Patients Split on Trust in Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Experience

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American patients are split as to whether they are comfortable with the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in their healthcare experience, according to survey data from Propeller Insights on behalf of...

Patients Want Doc Counsel Under Cures Act Patient Data Access Rules

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New data in the journal Radiation Oncology is providing more insights into how the 21st Century Cures Act’s provision mandating immediate patient data access and access to lab results impacts...