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Readmission prediction improves with remote monitoring data

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Incorporating remote monitoring data, such as physical activity and sleep data, from discharged patients can enhance predictions of 30-day hospital readmissions, especially when paired with machine learning regression.

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Twitter posts reflect shifts in emergency physician well-being during COVID-19

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Twitter posts by emergency medicine physicians reflected significantly more anxiety, anger, depression, and loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic than before it.

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Nudges to influence patients and providers are prevalent at health care organizations

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A survey of the NEJM Catalyst Insights Council indicates that health care organizations are using nudges to influence patients and/or clinicians to improve health and operations. CHCI's Kit Delgado and CHIBE's Kevin Volpp provide expert analysis.

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ChatGPT shows benefits in clinical setting but still carries risks

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CHCI's David Do and Yevgeniy Gitelman have been exploring how AI models like ChatGPT could be useful in health care. In this Q&A, they discuss opportunities and challenges with using this technology.

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Remote monitoring program for mothers with preeclampsia linked to better postpartum health

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Among new mothers with preeclampsia, those who participated in Heart Safe Motherhood, a remote blood pressure monitoring program, were less likely to have adverse clinical outcomes and had lower costs in the six months after delivery.