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Decision support and digital health
Clinical decision support and digital health built to fit the way clinicians actually work.
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Articles in this topic (13)
- What the Evidence Says About Trusting an AI Suggestion Too Much
Controlled experiments now show a consistent pattern: when a decision-support tool offers confident but incorrect advice, clinicians frequently adopt it, and their...
- What Clinical Decision Support Really Means in Diabetes Care
Clinical decision support, at its core, is software that helps a clinician make a better choice at the moment a choice has to be made. In diabetes care, that...
- What Continuous Glucose Monitoring Data Can and Cannot Tell You
Continuous glucose monitoring earns its strongest evidence in one place: people who take insulin, especially those at risk of dangerous lows, where it reliably...
- Why Some Digital Health Products Last and Most Quietly Fade
Digital health products last when three things hold at once: clinicians trust them, evidence backs them, and they fit the work people already do without asking for...
- How to Judge Whether an AI That Writes Clinical Notes Is Any Good
An AI that drafts your clinic notes is only as good as the errors it hides, not the minutes it saves. Judge it on three things the marketing rarely mentions:...
- Insulin Pumps and Closed-Loop Systems: How Automation Steadies Control
What do insulin pumps and closed-loop systems actually do?An insulin pump is a small device that delivers insulin continuously through a thin tube under the skin,...
- Why Interoperability Decides Whether Digital Health Works
Interoperability is the ability of different health systems and tools to share data and actually use it, and it quietly decides whether digital health helps or just...
- What a Hospital's AI Governance Program Is Supposed to Do
A hospital's AI governance program is supposed to make clinical artificial intelligence safe to use after it is purchased, not merely impressive in a sales demo....
- The Economics of Prevention: Why Good Investments Are Hard to Fund
Why is prevention so hard to fund when it pays off?Prevention is hard to fund because the spending and the saving happen at different times, often to different...
- What Clinicians Actually Need From Decision Support
What clinicians need from decision support is simple to state and hard to build: a suggestion that fits the patient in front of them, is safe to follow, explains...
- What Health Economics Actually Asks
Health economics asks a question every health system eventually has to answer: given limited resources, how do we get the most health for the people we serve. It is...
- What Time in Range Means for Understanding Blood Sugar
Time in range is the share of a day, or a week, that your blood sugar spends inside a healthy band rather than running high or dipping low. Where a long-term...
- The Six Ethics Principles the WHO Set for AI in Health Care
In June 2021 the World Health Organization published its first global report on artificial intelligence for health and named six ethics principles to guide the...