
World Bicycle Day: SheCycling campaign empowers women by teaching them to ride a bicycle
[ad_1] Inmates of Sri Chitra Home in Thiruvananthapuram learn how to ride a bicycle | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT As always Prakash P Gopinath, Bicycle Mayor of Thiruvananthapuram, has several plans to encourage more people to enjoy the ride, on a bicycle. On the occasion of World Bicycle Day today (June 3), Prakash plans to scale up Indus Cycling Embassy’s

A World Bicycle Day campaign in Kochi to mobilise support to turn Pipeline Road as the city’s first ‘cycling priority’ road
[ad_1] Vehicles parked on designated cycle tracks, painted green by CSML, on the Rajendra Maidan-Abraham Madamakkal Road corridor, leave no space for cyclists. | Photo Credit: H. Vibhu The United Nations declared June 3 as World Bicycle Day to acknowledge the bicycle’s importance as a means of transport. Even as more people have embraced cycling in Kochi, it continues to

Kerala Ultimate team at the national flying disc tournament, Bharat Trophy, being held at Hyderabad
[ad_1] Kerala Ultimate practise session at Kochi as they prepare for the Bharat Tournament scheduled to be held in Hyderabad from June 2 to June 4 | Photo Credit: THULASI KAKKAT A team of 26 players is set to represent Kerala at Ultimate Frisbee, an inter-State flying disc tournament scheduled in Hyderabad from June 2-4. Preparations have included practice sessions

Measures of socioeconomic advantage are not independent predictors of support for healthcare AI: subgroup analysis of a national Australian survey
[ad_1] Discussion In this study we examined sociodemographic differences in preference for healthcare AI using a large weighted Australian sample that was calibrated to the LIA probability sample using a range of behavioural and lifestyle questions, as well as major sociodemographic variables. Overall, 56.7% (95% CI 53.8%–59.0%) of the participants were supportive of the development of AI, slightly lower than

A natural language processing approach to categorise contributing factors from patient safety event reports
[ad_1] Working with noise in the data is one of the challenges when dealing with free-text formatted input data. Filtering the input sentences and selecting more informative ones work as a solution to reduce the noise in the data when dealing with free-text categorisation of CFs. Finding a balance between removing the noise and keeping a sufficient number of features

Young Indian adults coping with health issues post-pandemic
[ad_1] We’ve entered a post-COVID world, but one that has left India’s youth with a set of health challenges in its wake. A generation of under-25s saw major milestones through the pandemic: some became adults over the last three years, some graduated, some got their first jobs. Health, both mental and physical became a priority in a way it hadn’t

What health means to under 25s across India
[ad_1] There’s some good news from the pandemic after all: many Indians between 20 and 25 years, who witnessed Covid-19 in young-adulthood have the health wisdom of middle-agers, in part taken from their parents, in part from different kinds of media. Those we spoke to had internalized words like immunity and vaccine, through months spent in physical isolation, watching a

Willingness of diabetes mellitus patients to use mHealth applications and its associated factors for self-care management in a low-income country: an input for digital health implementation
[ad_1] Discussion The purpose of this study was to assess willingness of patients with DM to use mobile health applications and associated factors for self-care management. The result showed that willingness to use mHealth applications among patients with DM in the Oromia region was high (71.4%, 95% CI (66.8% to 75.9%)). This result was in line with the willingness to use

Willingness of diabetes mellitus patients to use mHealth applications and its associated factors for self-care management in a low-income country: an input for digital health implementation
[ad_1] Discussion The purpose of this study was to assess willingness of patients with DM to use mobile health applications and associated factors for self-care management. The result showed that willingness to use mHealth applications among patients with DM in the Oromia region was high (71.4%, 95% CI (66.8% to 75.9%)). This result was in line with the willingness to use

Anticipating artificial intelligence in mammography screening: views of Swedish breast radiologists
[ad_1] Discussion In this study, we have investigated Swedish breast radiologists’ views on the use of AI in mammography screening. The respondents were, to a large extent, positive towards the integration of AI in screen reading, especially those having difficulties finding the time to perform screen-reading. This could explain the slightly more positive attitude, compared with general studies on radiologists’

Prevalence of electronic screening for sepsis in National Health Service acute hospitals in England
[ad_1] Discussion The majority of Trusts responding reported having an EPR and over 20 different providers were identified as operational in NHS Trusts in England. Three-quarters of digital Trusts responded that they had a DSA and most these use NEWS2 as part of their sepsis alerting system. This is the approach included in the NHS National Standard Contract.16 There is

Prevalence of electronic screening for sepsis in National Health Service acute hospitals in England
[ad_1] Discussion The majority of Trusts responding reported having an EPR and over 20 different providers were identified as operational in NHS Trusts in England. Three-quarters of digital Trusts responded that they had a DSA and most these use NEWS2 as part of their sepsis alerting system. This is the approach included in the NHS National Standard Contract.16 There is

Applying a user-centred design machine learning toolkit to an autism spectrum disorder use case
[ad_1] Two BMJ Health & Care Informatics editors’ choice papers present insights based on case studies from real-world data and machine learning models for clinical risk prediction use cases. Seneviratne et al focus on case management to demonstrate how one might implement their proposed user-centred design toolkit consisting of process maps, storyboards and four questions.1 This toolkit was developed to

Clinical decision support systems to improve drug prescription and therapy optimisation in clinical practice: a scoping review
[ad_1] Discussion To the best of our knowledge, this is the first scoping review which attempts to identify the characteristics of studies in which different types of CDSSs were used to effectively support clinical decision in different settings. Previous scoping reviews have focused on CDSSs for medication review, rare-disease diagnosis, non-knowledge-based clinical decision support tools and on CDSSs to be

Trivandrum Ultimate, the Thiruvananthapuram chapter of Ultimate Frisbee, promotes the sport for youth empowerment
[ad_1] Dawn is breaking on Shangumukham beach in Thiruvananthapuram. Emil Thomas Sony launches a frisbee into one of his trademark long throws to his team’s cutter Madhav Dev, who runs and dives into the end zone of the field to catch the flying disc and gain a valuable point for his team. Grammar of the Game There are two basic

Women’s health service access and associated factors in Ethiopia: application of geographical information system and multilevel analysis
[ad_1] Discussion For this study, 2016 EDHS data were used that was accessed from the DHS website. Through request, permission was obtained to access the data. There are no attributes that uniquely identify individuals’ women or household addresses in the data files. This is because the geographical coordinate files are randomly displaced within a large geographical area, and it is

Analysis of ‘One in a Million’ primary care consultation conversations using natural language processing
[ad_1] Discussion We evaluated a range of text classifiers, achieving the highest F1 score on the test set of 0.51 for conventional BERT, with recall at 56% and precision at 55%, substantially better than n-gram-based classifiers (objective 1). This classifier was trained on medical code descriptions, which outperformed standard supervision with a training set of 191 transcripts (those with no

Senior women are taking to dance as they discover the benefits of movement
[ad_1] “The moment of seniors taking to dance has come,” says Geetha Mathen. In 2006 she founded Natya Vyayaama in Kochi to encourage older women to dance and exercise. “It was ahead of its time then,” she says. In 1998 she had informally started teaching dance to seniors but found few takers. Post the pandemic Geetha is relaunching the classes in May,

Chennai’s first CBD clinic focussing on medical cannabis and integrative healing opens. We get a first look
[ad_1] Access to the city’s first medical cannabis clinic is via a steep, winding staircase, leading from a busy tattoo studio. It feels appropriately niche, given the tumultuous history and notoriety of marijuana in India. However, Cansaa, which its CEO Naveen Kumar calls “India’s first integrative healing clinic”, since it combines functional medicine, Ayurveda, acupuncture and medical cannabis, is attempting

Moving from non-emergency bleeps and long-range pagers to a hospital-wide, EHR-integrated secure messaging system: an implementer report
[ad_1] Abstract Introduction Obsolete bleep/long-range pager equipment remains firmly embedded in the National Health Service (NHS). Objective To introduce a secure, chart-integrated messaging system (Epic Secure Chat) in a large NHS tertiary referral centre to replace non-emergency bleeps/long-range pagers. Methods The system was socialised in the months before go-live. Operational readiness was overseen by an implementation group with stakeholder engagement.

Cluster analysis of dietary patterns associated with colorectal cancer derived from a Moroccan case–control study
[ad_1] Discussion The proposed algorithm applied to the CCR Nutrition database, which is a multicente case–control study conducted in a population of 1496 pairs of Moroccan subjects with and without CRC, identified 2 dietary profiles associated with CRC: the ‘dangerous pattern’ and the ‘prudent profile’. The ‘dangerous pattern’ was characterised by a high consumption of vegetable oil, cakes, chocolate, cheese,

Sail on the Bay of Bengal in Chennai this summer and fill up on some vitamin sea
[ad_1] Sailboats taking part in the Unifi Capital Offshore Regatta 2023 It has only been half an hour since the last of the sailboats has arrived at Chennai harbour after the finals of the second edition of the Unifi Capital Offshore Regatta on April 7. The famished participants who have been at sea for over 10 hours are drinking tea

Novel machine learning model for predicting multiple unplanned hospitalisations
[ad_1] Results The optimised HURT model had a final test AUROC of 84% (95% CI 83.4% to 84.9%), while HLCC had an AUROC of 71% (95% CI 69.4% to 71.8%) (figure 1). The difference between HURT and HLCC ROC was statistically significant with Z=−22.6, p<0.001 (Delong test). ROC test performance of HLCC and HURT models predicting three or more unplanned

Routine health information use among healthcare providers in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
[ad_1] Introduction The health information gathered from sources at the facility and population level influences the quality of healthcare policy formulation, programme planning, monitoring, and evaluation, and healthcare service delivery as a whole.1 2 Alternatively, facility-level data sources can sometimes be referred to as ‘routine health information data sources’, whereas population-level data sources are known as ‘non-routine health information sources’.3

Modelling admission lengths within psychiatric intensive care units
[ad_1] Results From the four units involved, data were acquired from 368 patients (table 2). Patient records used in data analysis Data from 40 type 1 (typical) patients were easily collected from each unit. Of the other types, amount collected from units over the maximum 4-year time period varied. Survival plots for patient types are shown in figure 1A. These