AI and optimal insulin dosing

Can voice-based AI help patients with diabetes move more quickly towards optimal insulin dosing? According to a Nayak et al. (2023) study out today in JAMA Network Open, the answer is yes. Question  Can a voice-based conversational artificial intelligence (AI) application help patients with type 2 diabetes titrate basal insulin at home to achieve rapid…

AMA Survey on Telehealth

The American Medical Association surveyed its members between November and December of 2021 to examine their current use of telehealth. As outliend in the “2021 Telehealth Survey Report“, the key findings of the survey were: Uptake. 85% of physician use telehealth. 56% of respondents said they believe they will increase telehealth use in their practices.…

How will telehealth impact health equity?

Will telehealth widen or reduce health disparities? Telehealth may make it easier for individuals who lack transportation to get access to medical care; on the other hand, those without high-speed internet or good cell phone connections could be disadvantaged. In a recent report, NCQA examined the future of telehealth and examined how to make sure…

How often do clinicians use computerized clinical decision support systems?

That is the question Kouri et al. (2022) aim to answer. They conduct a systematic literature review and meta-analysis and find: …overall [computerized clinical decision support systems] CDSS uptake was 34.2% (95% CI 23.2 to 47.1%). Uptake was only reported in 12.4% of studies that otherwise met inclusion criteria. Multivariable meta-regression revealed the following factors…

The rise of telemedicine

We have heard much about how COVID-19 has created a paradigm shift in the use of telemedicine. A paper by Patel et al. (2021) uses claims data between January 1, 2020, to June 16, 2020 to measure this trend quantitatively. They find that in a largely commercially-insured population: In the COVID-19 period, 30.1 percent of…