Virtual reality technology may be a unique and immersive avenue for educating patients on rheumatic conditions and their treatments, with the potential to enable more informed decision making and improve care.
The HHS Seeks Comments on Proposed Changes to HIPAA Security Rule
The proposed changes aim to address modern breach and cybersecurity risks to electronic protected health information and common deficiencies observed by the HHS in Security Rule compliance investigations.
Ethics Forum: Regarding Chatbots in Rheumatology
Chatbots are not a new concept, but have recently gained popularity and traction. Launched in late 2022, ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer) is a web-based platform designed to simulate interactive conversations and deliver real-time data. It has quickly become a tool that provides instantaneous information that can be more focused than a Google search.1 We,…
New Quality Measures Aim to Address Gaps & Inequities in Lupus Care
Through a project to reduce gaps and inequities in lupus care and treatment, ACR work groups have developed five quality measures focused on clinical and patient-reported outcomes and are integrating them into the RISE registry to support patient care and research.
Wired: Tech-Based Strategies for Engaging Patients in Research
Artificial intelligence, social media, mobile apps—different technologies can be used to connect with and benefit rheumatology patients. During a session of the 2023 Pediatric Rheumatology Symposium, Dr. Jonathan Hausmann discussed the use of technology in research to improve patient recruitment and engagement, collect data and more.
Large Language Models in Medicine: The potential to reduce workloads, leverage the EMR for better communication & more
Large language models are a type of AI that allows users to generate new content, drawing from a huge dataset to learn how to mimic “natural language” with many possible beneficial applications for this technology in medicine.
Rheumatology Online: The State of the Art on Social Media
PHILADELPHIA—A session on social media in rheumatology at ACR Convergence 2022 focused on how to use social media to promote one’s work and collaborate on international research projects, as well as the use of podcasts in educating rheumatologists. Engaging at Conferences Jean Liew, MD, MS, assistant professor of medicine in the Section of Rheumatology at…
Telehealth Brings Opportunities to Enhance Patient Care
During an ACR webinar in August, presenters discussed multiple aspects of telehealth in rheumatology, especially related to rheumatology fellowship training. They agreed that although telehealth represents one potential avenue to improve patient access to treatment for rheumatic disease, we must keep identifying the best ways to employ telehealth to enhance care. Impact of Pandemic Telemedicine…
Self-Initiated Care May Reduce Workforce Gap
Seppen et al. developed a smartphone application for patients with RA to assess the safety and efficacy of patient-initiated care, compared with usual care. By answering a weekly Routine Assessment of Patient Index Data 3 (RAPID3) questionnaire, patients were able to monitor their own disease activity between clinic visits.
Exploring the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Rheumatology
I looked at the joints. They spoke back to me—”I need more humanism,” they whispered. To longtime readers, those two sentences may sound both familiar and alien, perhaps even a little humorous. That’s because those sentences were generated entirely by a computer using artificial intelligence (AI). It was simple, too: I just copied the text…
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