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Diagnosing kidney disease may soon be automated with new algorithm – Health Europa
A new algorithm has been developed that can alert physicians to patients in the earliest stages of chronic kidney disease by scouring their electronic health records….
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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