eHealth Initiative

Embedding Undergraduate Nursing Students as Patient Navigators in Federally Qualified Health Centers

Background: Enhancing nursing care coordination systems supports improvement of colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates. This project implemented a nursing student-led patient navigation model to address open colonoscopy referrals while providing experiential, systems-based learn...

A medically grounded LLM agent–based tool to detect patient safety events in medical records

Large language models (LLMs) have shown incredible promise in medicine. While LLMs may be particularly useful in areas requiring extensive review of clinical records, their use remains limited due to their tendency to hallucinate and fabricate information. Hallucination issues, a...

Beyond majority voting: a new framework for evaluating AI diagnostic systems against expert consensus

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into medical diagnostic workflows requires robust and consistent evaluation methods to ensure reliability, clinical relevance, and the inherent variability in expert judgments. Traditional metrics like precision and recall often fai...