The Nebraska Hospital Association offers a free, downloadable patient instruction form to help patients better manage their health post-discharge. The hospital association obtained the forms from the ...

In a recent study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers investigated whether large language models (LLMs) might improve the understandability and readability of hospital discharge summaries.

New York City-based NYU Langone Health tested artificial intelligence to see how well it can convert physician notes into accurate lay language that improved patient understanding. The study, ...

(Reuters Health) - Many patients leaving the hospital don’t understand follow-up care plans because the instructions are tailored to people with higher reading levels and more education, a recent U.S.

Kumar and colleagues assessed LLM’s ability to translate discharge summary notes into plain language to improve patient comprehension. 2. Patients, especially those with limited health literacy, ...

Health First is a nonprofit, Central Florida health system consisting of more than 900 beds across four hospitals, with the only Level II trauma center in the county. Streamlining and automating the ...

Hospitals’ shortcomings in providing post-acute care providers with adequate discharge information prompted federal regulators to issue a special memo Tuesday. Nursing homes and home health providers ...

A large language model-based tool developed in South Korea has shown potential to halve the time emergency physicians spend writing discharge notes while improving documentation quality. Researchers ...

On June 6, 2023, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) provided a Quality Safety & Oversight (QSO) memorandum outlining CMS-identified concerns with respect to the patient discharge ...

Spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, the healthcare industry has experienced a marked shift to home-based care as more and more patients – including seniors – opt to recover at home rather than in a long ...