El-Hayek C, Barzegar S, Faux N, Doyle K, Pillai P, Mutch SJ, Vaisey A, Ward R, Sanci L, Dunn AG, Hellard ME. An evaluation of existing text de-identification tools for use with patient progress notes from Australian general practice. International Journal of Medical Informatics. 2023 May 1;173:105021. https://doiorg.simsrad.net.ocs.mq.edu.au/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2023.105021

An evaluation of existing text de-identification tools for use with patient progress notes from Australian general practice Digitized patient progress notes from general practice represent a significant resource for clinical and public health research but cannot feasibly and ethically be used for these purposes without automated de-identification. Internationally, several open-source natural language processing tools have

Surian D, Wang Y, Coiera E, Magrabi F. Using automated methods to detect safety problems with health information technology: a scoping review. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2023 Feb 1;30(2):382-92. https://doiorg.simsrad.net.ocs.mq.edu.au/10.1093/jamia/ocac220

Using automated methods to detect safety problems with health information technology: a scoping review Health information technology (HIT) can play an important role in supporting care delivery and improving patient safety.1–6 Problems with HIT however can introduce new, often unforeseen,7 modes of failure that reduce the safety and quality of clinical care and may lead to patient

Rohilla U, Ramarao JP, Lane J, Khatri NN, Smith J, Yin K, Lau AY. How general practitioners and patients discuss type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular diseases concerns during consultations: Implications for digital health. Digital Health. 2023 Jul;9. https://doi.org/10.1177/20552076231176162

How general practitioners and patients discuss type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular diseases concerns during consultations: Implications for digital health Increasingly, patients are expected to take care of their health outside of medical settings (i.e. self-management).1 Self-management includes the actions taken by individuals to lead a healthy lifestyle, manage their long-term condition and prevent further illness,

Sintchenko V, Coiera E. The case for including microbial sequences in the electronic health record. Nat Med 29, 22–25 (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41591-022-02157-8

Integrating microbial sequencing data into electronic health records, while presenting privacy concerns, will improve patient care and population health and will expand the secondary uses of such data. The growing availability of microbial genomes sequenced for health care rather than research raises the question of whether such data should be included in an individual’s electronic