Diagnosing kidney disease may soon be automated with new algorithm – Health Europa

Chronic kidney disease is often undetected until it causes irreversible damage. Now, its diagnosis could become fully automated thanks to a new algorithm that has been developed by researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, which automatically searches through a patient’s electronic health records for results of blood and urine tests.
Using a mix of established equations and machine learning to process the data, the algorithm is able alert physicians to patients…

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