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      Will artificial intelligence widen the therapeutic gap between children and adults?

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            Scalable and accurate deep learning with electronic health records

            Predictive modeling with electronic health record (EHR) data is anticipated to drive personalized medicine and improve healthcare quality. Constructing predictive statistical models typically requires extraction of curated predictor variables from normalized EHR data, a labor-intensive process that discards the vast majority of information in each patient’s record. We propose a representation of patients’ entire raw EHR records based on the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) format. We demonstrate that deep learning methods using this representation are capable of accurately predicting multiple medical events from multiple centers without site-specific data harmonization. We validated our approach using de-identified EHR data from two US academic medical centers with 216,221 adult patients hospitalized for at least 24 h. In the sequential format we propose, this volume of EHR data unrolled into a total of 46,864,534,945 data points, including clinical notes. Deep learning models achieved high accuracy for tasks such as predicting: in-hospital mortality (area under the receiver operator curve [AUROC] across sites 0.93–0.94), 30-day unplanned readmission (AUROC 0.75–0.76), prolonged length of stay (AUROC 0.85–0.86), and all of a patient’s final discharge diagnoses (frequency-weighted AUROC 0.90). These models outperformed traditional, clinically-used predictive models in all cases. We believe that this approach can be used to create accurate and scalable predictions for a variety of clinical scenarios. In a case study of a particular prediction, we demonstrate that neural networks can be used to identify relevant information from the patient’s chart.
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              Privacy in the age of medical big data

              Big data has become the ubiquitous watch word of medical innovation. The rapid development of machine-learning techniques and artificial intelligence in particular has promised to revolutionize medical practice from the allocation of resources to the diagnosis of complex diseases. But with big data comes big risks and challenges, among them significant questions about patient privacy. Here, we outline the legal and ethical challenges big data brings to patient privacy. We discuss, among other topics, how best to conceive of health privacy; the importance of equity, consent, and patient governance in data collection; discrimination in data uses; and how to handle data breaches. We close by sketching possible ways forward for the regulatory system.
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                mrn32@case.edu
                Journal
                Pediatr Investig
                Pediatr Investig
                10.1002/(ISSN)2574-2272
                PED4
                Pediatric Investigation
                John Wiley and Sons Inc. (Hoboken )
                2096-3726
                2574-2272
                01 December 2023
                March 2024
                : 8
                : 1 ( doiID: 10.1002/ped4.v8.1 )
                : 1-6
                Affiliations
                [ 1 ] Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine Case Western Reserve University Cleveland Ohio USA
                [ 2 ] Department of Pediatrics Division of Hematology/Oncology Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis Missouri USA
                [ 3 ] Department of Medicine Bioethics Research Center Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis Missouri USA
                [ 4 ] Institute for Informatics Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis Missouri USA
                [ 5 ] Department of Pediatric Hematology Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplantation Cleveland Clinic Children's Cleveland Ohio USA
                Author notes
                [*] [* ] Correspondence

                Matthew Nagy, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.

                Email: mrn32@ 123456case.edu

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                https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5087-6674
                Article
                PED412407
                10.1002/ped4.12407
                10951493
                38516139
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                © 2023 Chinese Medical Association. Pediatric Investigation published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Futang Research Center of Pediatric Development.

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                : 31 October 2023
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