A life was saved twice a week by an automated text messaging system during the fraught early days of the COVID-19 pandemic and, overall, the patients who enrolled in that system were 68 percent less likely to die than those not using it. These insights about Penn Medicine’s COVID Watch—a system designed to monitor COVID-19 […]
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Automated and mobile X-ray device to improve and speed up health services
An accident, such as falling on a ski slope, usually requires an X-ray examination of the injured limb and a trip to the nearest hospital or emergency clinic. In the near future, imaging services can be brought closer to the patient. Researchers in Oulu are currently developing a compact X-ray imaging device that even the […]
Automated detection of sleep states from olfactory brain waves
Scientists have developed a completely automated technique for real-time detection of sleep/wake states in freely moving mice. Conducted by Karim Benchenane, Sophie Bagur and colleagues at the National Centre for Scientific Research in Paris, the study, publishing on November 8 in the open-access journal, PLOS Biology, describes how local brain activity in the olfactory bulb […]
PCP Statin Prescribing Up With Automated Patient Dashboard
TUESDAY, Aug. 7, 2018 — Guideline-concordant statin prescribing rates are increased modestly with use of an automated dashboard using active choice framing and peer comparison, according to a study published online July 27 in JAMA Network Open. Mitesh S. Patel, M.D., M.B.A., from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and colleagues conducted a three-arm cluster […]