Publications by authors named "B Kummer"
: Interprofessional electronic consultations (eConsults) can reduce health care utilization and improve access to specialty care. However, health care utilization and access impacts of eConsults for headache disorders remain incompletely characterized. : We conducted a retrospective, 1:3-matched cohort study comparing patients referred for in-person headache evaluations to patients who had a headache-related eConsult.
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- The study examines the use of remote patient monitoring (RPM) for neurological disorders using data from 2019 to 2021, focusing on the differences between first-generation and second-generation billing codes.
- The analysis included 27,756 encounters from 11,326 patients, revealing that over half utilized second-generation codes, with a notable demographic skew towards females, older adults, and urban residents in this group.
- Findings indicate a higher prevalence of sleep-wake disorders and the involvement of non-neurologists, suggesting a need for better understanding and integration of RPM services in neurological care.
As teleheath becomes integrated into the practice of medicine, it is important to understand the benefits, limitations, and variety of applications. Telestroke was an early example of teleneurology that arose from a need for urgent access to neurologists for time-sensitive treatments for stroke. It made a scarce resource widely available via video conferencing technologies.
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- Large language models (LLMs) are AI systems that can generate and understand human-like language, which might benefit neurology-related tasks, but their effectiveness in real clinical scenarios is still uncertain.
- The article highlights several limitations of LLMs in healthcare, including issues like limited clinical reasoning and biases, alongside practical challenges such as costs and infrastructure needs.
- To successfully integrate LLMs into clinical practice, healthcare organizations must foster an AI-friendly culture, engage stakeholders, and prioritize patient data privacy while ensuring proper testing and monitoring to mitigate biases.
Interprofessional consultations ("eConsults"), which facilitate asynchronous specialist consultations, remain understudied in neurological disorders. We aimed to describe the patient population receiving eConsult services for neurological disorders nationwide and to conduct a comparative analysis between rural and urban patients within this eConsult cohort. We analyzed a dataset of U.
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