A rheumatologist with a background in biostatistics, data science & bioinformatics discusses the use of artificial intelligence in clinical research.

A rheumatologist with a background in biostatistics, data science & bioinformatics discusses the use of artificial intelligence in clinical research.
The ASTP/ONC’s recently updated United States Core Data for Interoperability Version 6 includes new data elements and applicable standards to support the provision of precision medicine and better patient care across the healthcare system.
Leslie Mertz, PhD |
Through a project to reduce gaps and inequities in lupus care and treatment, ACR work groups have developed five quality measures focused on clinical and patient-reported outcomes and are integrating them into the RISE registry to support patient care and research.
During an ACR webinar in August, presenters discussed multiple aspects of telehealth in rheumatology, especially related to rheumatology fellowship training. They agreed that although telehealth represents one potential avenue to improve patient access to treatment for rheumatic disease, we must keep identifying the best ways to employ telehealth to enhance care. Impact of Pandemic Telemedicine…
I looked at the joints. They spoke back to me—”I need more humanism,” they whispered. To longtime readers, those two sentences may sound both familiar and alien, perhaps even a little humorous. That’s because those sentences were generated entirely by a computer using artificial intelligence (AI). It was simple, too: I just copied the text…
Laura E. Ray, MA, MLS, on behalf of the ARP E-Learning Subcommittee of the ACR Committee on Education |
Developing instructional sessions or courses for delivery in online (i.e., asynchronous, not live) or remote (i.e., synchronous, live) learning environments rests on a foundation of traditional instructional design and active learning concepts. Successful online/remote instruction interprets those foundational concepts through technological and multimedia components. For example, the ADDIE instructional design model may be interpreted: Analyze—determine…
As the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 spreads across the globe, innovative thinking is needed more than ever to counter the devastating effects on the physical and socioeconomic health of individuals and communities. Innovations in healthcare delivery not yet fully realized prior to the pandemic, such as the adoption of telehealth, are moving to the…
Allison Plitman |
A better understanding of knowledge gaps and increased engagement of underrepresented communities are needed to diversify rheumatology patient data in clinical datasets, registries and randomized clinical trials.
S. Louis Bridges Jr., MD, PhD |
No event in recent history has caused such far-reaching changes within the medical industry as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Similar to its ability to spread indiscriminately—infecting people regardless of age, race or socioeconomic background—the virus is inducing immediate and, likely, permanent changes across the entire spectrum of healthcare. Comfortable routines of healthcare delivery have been…
Sheryl Mascarenhas, MD, with Greg Stevens, BS |
Under the onslaught of developing information on COVID-19, one health system found a way to streamline communication using a secure tool it already had access to.