Maria Gil, MHA

Primary care is usually a patient’s first encounter with a health care system. But efforts to maintain engagement typically falter after the initial visit.

Using routinely collected data in electronic health records, predictive modeling stratified risks for developing food allergy among infants, according to a study published in Allergy.

Medical coding historically has been a manual and disjointed process, with office managers, coding specialists or clinicians reviewing the data after patient visits and coding to the best of their abilities.

As breakthroughs in artificial intelligence power more effective and efficient treatment elsewhere in medicine, many asthma and allergy specialists may wonder how these innovations could impact their day-to-day practice.