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Recent reporting, analysis and explainers from the Health Informatics desk.
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A medRxiv preprint analysing 704 online health narratives reports that factual alignment with medical consensus and potential health risk are largely separate properties. The authors argue that health-information systems should assess both dimensions rather than rely on fact-checking alone.
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A medRxiv preprint found that language models often produced numbers consistent with clinical evidence but struggled to adapt those numbers to patient-specific cases and actions. Explicit inputs, calculations and complete decision rules substantially improved performance in controlled tests.
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A medRxiv preprint evaluated an ambient AI scribe across a multilingual, controlled corpus and found that word error rate did not reliably identify rare, clinically consequential transcription errors. The authors argue that frequency-based accuracy measures should be complemented by context-aware clinical-risk assessment.