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A federal rule now requires certified electronic health records to publish a standard set of facts about each predictive algorithm they ship, including how it was validated and whether it was tested for fairness.
A year of alerts at one hospital shows the safety pop-ups clinicians dismiss almost automatically — and why the field still cannot agree on how to measure the problem.
A study of 2.4 million veterans a month finds health information exchange volume moving outcomes in opposite directions depending on which side of the exchange you are on.
These features are verifiable and occasionally decisive. The one study of Medical ID in trauma found most unconscious patients had no usable emergency info on their phone at all.
A February theme issue documents faster notes, happier clinicians and enterprise rollouts to thousands. It also contains an editorial asking the question none of the studies answer.
A 444,000-patient records study found a two-thirds lower rate of endometrial cancer when GLP-1 receptor agonists were added to progestin therapy. The two groups differed by eight years in average age.
Two November trials found ambient AI cut documentation time and work exhaustion. A parallel emergency department comparison found physicians spent more time in the note, not less.
An EHR-embedded model wrote hospital summaries residents edited less — but with more confabulations. A separate pipeline audited 21,041 trial reports against CONSORT at 91.7% agreement with experts.
Reported health-data breaches rose 100% from 2018 to 2023 and the people affected by them 950%. A federal proposal would drop the rule's 'addressable' loophole and require encryption, multi-factor login and more.