In the real world, ordering medical tests costs money, so Microsoft tracked the tests that the AI system and human doctors ordered to see which method could get it done more cheaply. Not only did ...

Wrong-patient errors — which occur when a provider means to place an order for one patient but places it for another by mistake — happen rarely, less than 1% of the time, Dr. Hojjat Salmasian ...

Electronic health records (EHRs) have been mainly used to analyze bottlenecks in care processes of outpatient oncology clinics. However, EHR data lead to some limitations in understanding patient flow ...

The patient’s chart showed a history of “PE,” so an ER physician ordered a CT scan to rule out recurrence of a “pulmonary embolism,” a blood clot in the lungs.

The study looked at about 100 million patient visits to 155,000 U.S. physicians and found they spend an average of 16 minutes and 14 seconds per patient encounter using EHRs, with chart review (33 ...

The study, which used a small sample of health volunteers, showed that patients’ beliefs about their symptoms can shape their experience of pain and alter their neural activity, according to the ...