Healio

Two-step algorithm improves cashew allergy testing

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The American Journal of Managed Care

Real-world HIV Diagnostic Testing Patterns in the United States

This retrospective study evaluated real-world implementation of the updated CDC HIV algorithm in a large US laboratory. Objectives: To understand real-world implementation of the updated CDC HIV ...
Medscape

Thyroid Function Test Algorithm Cuts Overuse, Costs

ORLANDO, Fla. — Steering clinicians toward a cascade approach for thyroid function testing cut unnecessary orders by a monthly average of 15% and concurrent orders by 19% per month, according to ...
JD Supra

To Prevent Algorithms From Heading Off Course, Regulators Consider Testing

As the various NAIC groups and state regulators continue to ascertain the seaworthiness of insurers’ use of consumer data, algorithms, and machine learning, these lookouts have set their sights on ...
Monthly Prescribing Reference

FDA Clears New Testing Algorithm for Lyme Disease Diagnosis

Anna Perez This photograph depicts a deer tick, or blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis, as it was questing on a blade of grass. The Lyme disease bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi, is spread through the ...
Nature

A machine-learning algorithm to target COVID testing of travellers

Ziad Obermeyer is in the Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA. Read the paper: Efficient and targeted ...