Category «Health Care»

Assessing the Utility of ChatGPT Throughout the Entire Clinical Workflow: Development and Usability Study

J Med Internet Res 2023;25:e48659 Background: Large language model (LLM)–based artificial intelligence chatbots direct the power of large training data sets toward successive, related tasks as opposed to single-ask tasks, for which artificial intelligence already achieves impressive performance. The capacity of LLMs to assist in the full scope of iterative clinical reasoning via successive prompting, …

Subjects: AI, Health Care, Medicine

DHS Community Leaders New Resources to Prepare for Extreme Temperature Events

“With roughly 130 million Americans across 22 states under heat alerts, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) are releasing new resources to help communities manage extreme heat, which is growing in intensity due to the climate crisis. Heat remains the number one weather-related cause of death in …

Subjects: Climate Change, Economy, Environmental Law, Government Documents, Health Care, Transportation

America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow

“Overuse is draining and damaging aquifers nationwide, a New York Times data investigation revealed…Global warming has focused concern on land and sky as soaring temperatures intensify hurricanes, droughts and wildfires. But another climate crisis is unfolding, underfoot and out of view. Many of the aquifers that supply 90 percent of the nation’s water systems, and …

Subjects: Climate Change, Environmental Law, Food and Nutrition, Health Care

Air Quality—A Major Issue of Our Time

Ground Truths – The war on bad air from raging wildfires to respiratory viruses, inside and outside – “I’m Eric Topol and I’m really delighted to have with me in person, Professor Linsey Marr from Virginia Tech. And we’re going to be discussing air quality. and I’m going to go back to a remarkable op-ed …

Subjects: Climate Change, Environmental Law, Health Care

ChemExpo Knowledgebase: A New Way to Explore Chemical Use Information

“There are tens of thousands of chemicals registered for use in commercial, industrial, and consumer products in the US. Under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), EPA is required to assess, manage, and evaluate the safety of existing chemicals, including their exposure potential. A wide variety of exposure-relevant data are necessary to support these chemical …

Subjects: E-Government, Environmental Law, Health Care

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, August 26, 2023

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, August 26, 2023 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the …

Subjects: AI, Cryptocurrency, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Health Care, Privacy

NASA’s High-Resolution Air Quality Control Instrument Launches

“A NASA instrument to provide unprecedented resolution of monitoring major air pollutants – down to four square miles – lifted off on its way to geostationary orbit at 12:30 a.m. EDT Friday. The Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument will improve life on Earth by revolutionizing the way scientists observe air quality from space. …

Subjects: Climate Change, E-Government, Energy, Environmental Law, Food and Nutrition, Health Care, Transportation

FDA Drug Shortages

Current and Resolved Drug Shortages and Discontinuations Reported to FDA Report a Drug Shortage | Contact Us | FAQ | Background Info | Get Email Alerts | Download Current Drug Shortages Search by Generic Name or Active Ingredient: Enter at least three characters A drug receives Resolved status when the Drug Shortages Staff (DSS) determines …

Subjects: E-Government, Health Care, Medicine

We Found 650,000 Ways Advertisers Label You

Via LLRX – We Found 650,000 Ways Advertisers Label You – If you spend any time online, you probably have some idea that the digital ad industry is constantly collecting data about you, including a lot of personal information, and sorting you into specialized categories so you’re more likely to buy the things they advertise …

Subjects: E-Commerce, E-Records, Economy, Health Care, Legal Research, Marketing, Microsoft, Privacy

11 Cool Tricks You Can Do With the Google Search Box

Gizmodo – “There’s a lot of fun and useful functions hidden away in that empty white bar. Getting Google to search the web for you is all well and good, but there’s a ton of functionality available through the simple-looking box on the world’s most-visited website. You could call these bonus features, or Easter eggs, …

Subjects: Health Care, Internet, Search Engines

It isn’t data that will unlock AI, it is human expertise

One Useful Thing: “The largest Large Language Models, like GPT-4, already have trained on tons of data. They “know” many things, which is why they beat Stanford Medical School students when evaluating new medical cases and Harvard students at essay writing, despite their tendency to hallucinate wrong answers. It may well be that more data …

Subjects: AI, Education, Health Care, Legal Research

Government’s own experts found ‘barbaric’ and ‘negligent’ conditions in ICE detention

NPR Investigative Report: “Immigrants await processing at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Adelanto, California. By filing a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act, NPR obtained a trove of inspection reports detailing serious problems at this ICE facility and others across the United States. In Michigan, a man in the custody …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research

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