Air pollution poses health concerns at the global scale. The challenge of managing air pollution is significant because of the many air pollutants, insufficient funds for monitoring and abatement programs, and political and social challenges in defin...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 7, 2025
BACKGROUND: Approximately 20% of patients who are discharged from hospital for an acute exacerbation of COPD (AECOPD) are readmitted within 30 days. Prediction scores are helpful to identify those who are at higher risk of readmission, such that they...
Poor air quality poses significant threats to public health and environmental sustainability. To mitigate such risks, accurate air quality prediction is essential to inform intervention policies that effectively reduce pollutant levels. While past re...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Feb 18, 2025
Diagnosing pulmonary embolism (PE) often requires specialized expertise in interpreting x-rays and radiographic images, resources that are mostly limited in rural settings. This paper explores the development of an electronic health record (EHR) syst...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Feb 18, 2025
OntarioMD (OMD), a leader in digital health, focuses on harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to reduce administrative burden and enhance patient care in primary care. Building on 20 years of digital health experience, OMD has establis...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Feb 19, 2024
Advanced disease prediction is an important step toward achieving a proactive healthcare system. New technologies such as artificial intelligence are very promising in their ability to predict the onset of future disease much earlier than has been po...
Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien
Jan 1, 2024
OBJECTIVE: To understand the perspectives of primary care clinicians and health system leaders on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to derive information about patients' social determinants of health.
PURPOSE: Information about social determinants of health (SDOH) is essential for primary care clinicians in the delivery of equitable, comprehensive care, as well as for program planning and resource allocation. SDOH are rarely captured consistently ...
JAMA otolaryngology-- head & neck surgery
Aug 1, 2022
IMPORTANCE: Patient-reported symptom burden was recently found to be associated with emergency department use and unplanned hospitalization (ED/Hosp) in patients with head and neck cancer. It was hypothesized that symptom scores could be combined wit...
Natural language processing (NLP) tools provide quantitative methods to analyze board minutes and better understand and measure the work of the board. Techniques such as riverbed graphs and sentiment analysis provide objective, measurable information...
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