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A Machine Learning Approach to Predicting Case Duration for Robot-Assisted Surgery.

Journal of medical systems
Robot-assisted surgery (RAS) requires a large capital investment by healthcare organizations. The cost of a robotic unit is fixed, so institutions must maximize use of each unit by utilizing all available operating room block time. One way to increas...

Approximate dynamic programming approaches for appointment scheduling with patient preferences.

Artificial intelligence in medicine
During the appointment booking process in out-patient departments, the level of patient satisfaction can be affected by whether or not their preferences can be met, including the choice of physicians and preferred time slot. In addition, because the ...

Automated clinical trial eligibility prescreening: increasing the efficiency of patient identification for clinical trials in the emergency department.

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
OBJECTIVES: (1) To develop an automated eligibility screening (ES) approach for clinical trials in an urban tertiary care pediatric emergency department (ED); (2) to assess the effectiveness of natural language processing (NLP), information extractio...

Leveraging AI tools for streamlined library event planning: a case study from Lane Medical Library.

Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA
Health sciences and hospital libraries often face challenges in planning and organizing events due to limited resources and staff. At Stanford School of Medicine's Lane Library, librarians turned to artificial intelligence (AI) tools to address this ...

Robotic Pet Use Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults.

The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences
OBJECTIVE: The primary purpose of this study was to explore the efficacy of robotic pets in alleviating loneliness for older adults.

Association rule mining for the ordered placement of traditional Chinese medicine containers: An experimental study.

Medicine
In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) clinics, the pharmacists responsible for dispensing the herbal medicine usually find the desired ingredients based on positions of the shelves (racks; frames; stands). Generally, these containers are arranged in ...

Artificial Intelligence and Nursing: The Future Is Now.

The Journal of nursing administration
As systems evolve over time, their natural tendency is to become increasingly more complex. Studies in the field of complex systems have generated new perspectives on the application of management strategies in health systems. Much of this research a...