New tool that helps prioritise care for diabetes patients in hospital wins award

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This article discusses a new informatics tool developed by Dr. Janaka Karalliedde to help prioritise care for people with diabetes waiting for hospital appointments. The tool aims to identify and prioritise individuals with diabetes who require more urgent care. As healthcare systems face challenges with backlogs of care, this tool uses data from electronic health records to assess risk factors in patients with diabetes and determine which individuals need to be prioritised for treatment.

What do you think the potential implications of this new informatics tool for prioritising care for people with diabetes, as discussed in the article?

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Amazing work! There’s no doubt that AI tools like this (because that’s what’s behind it) are going to revolutionise a great deal of healthcare, enabling clinicians to spot more easily conditions that need treating in a timely way.

How will medical training keep up with these developments and prepare healthcare workers for the future? Exciting times!