MedStar Health Blog

Our research, published in Applied Clinical Informatics, examined the prevalence of negative descriptors in patient records and whether these were associated with adverse maternal outcomes.   Wh...

A study by the Department of Emergency Medicine at MedStar Washington Hospital Center, and others validates an AI-based tool that analyzes an mRNA signature to improve the specificity of sepsis diagn...

MHRI research now underway uses both data science and structured interviews to explore barriers to treatment for people with spinal muscular atrophy.    Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a r...

As part of a collaborative effort, our researchers developed and validated a statistical model to determine a patient’s risk of heart failure or cardiomyopathy following breast cancer treatment...

MedStar Health Research Institute is concluding an early feasibility study of a new way to fuse bones that could change how degenerative spinal disc disease is treated.   The spine is a remarkab...

My mother, now 90, grew up in an era where the ‘doctor knows best, but those days of assumed expertise are gone. Only 36% of U.S. adults say they have a great deal of confidence in the medical system...