@lilianalaranjo
MD MPH PhD @WARC_USyd. Sydney Horizon Fellow. NHMRC Emerging Leader. Past GP. #DigitalHealth nerd. Interested in primary care, public health, cardiovascular disease prevention, sustainable healthcare, long COVID, diversity, equity and inclusion
AI tools are increasingly used in primary care for tasks like documentation and patient advice, but many are implemented without thorough evaluation or regulatory oversight, raising safety and equity concerns. doi.org/hbfzj3
New paper by @oohgpwales.bsky.social and AI colleagues on the pros and cons of AI in primary care
#medsky #healthpolicy
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🆕 "In this Review, we assess current and potential applications of AI in primary care, including AI to support primary
care providers and AI to support people with their health."
Read the Review by @lilianalaranjo.bsky.social and colleagues now ➡️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
@warcusyd.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au
#LeadershipForGood #HorizonFellowship #SydneyHorizonFellow
#PrimaryCare #AIinHealth #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalHealth #HealthcareQuality #HealthEquity #PlanetaryHealth
DOI: 10.1016/j.lanprc.2025.100078
💫 Amid the rising global burden of non-communicable diseases, leveraging AI to enhance equitable and scalable preventive health-care approaches in the community could be a pathway to accelerate the transformation towards sustainable and high-quality primary care. ⭐️
🤝 Multisectoral partnerships and collaborations between all stakeholders are needed to ensure responsible AI implementation in Primary Care.
🌍 Sustainable practices and renewable energy sources will be key to ensuring a net positive effect for planetary and human health.
⚖️ Ensuring equity will require consideration of bias mitigation strategies, universal design principles, digital determinants of health, safety nets, and careful alignment with patient experiences and values across the full spectrum of human diversity.
There is an urgent need to improve #AILiteracy among providers and the general population and to equip them to safely navigate the AI shifts in primary care.
tl;dr: ✅AI offers a chance to reimagine Primary Care, supporting clinicians and empowering people in managing their health BUT ‼️Deployment is moving ahead of evaluation & regulation, with few robust real-world trials and inconsistent assessment of safety issues.
In this review, we frame #AI's impact on care quality across effectiveness, safety, timeliness, efficiency, patient-centredness, provider experience, equity, and planetary health—plus #PrimaryCare attributes of access, continuity, coordination, comprehensiveness.
[NEW PAPER] today in @thelancet.com Primary Care: "Artificial intelligence in primary care—innovation at a crossroads" with Lorainne Tudor Car @rebeccapayne.bsky.social Ana Luisa Neves, Michael Kidd, @jjaimemiranda.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Back home after #CSANZ2025, exhausted but grateful for all the connections with old and new colleagues.🫀
Great representation from @warcusyd.bsky.social 👏
Lucky to work with this diverse bunch of brilliant people 🫶
PhD student Carina Choy presenting her work exploring cultural influences on heart failure self-management at #CSANZ2025. 👏🫀 #ProudSupervisors 😊
Ritu Trivedi Sonali Munot Sarah Zaman
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Proud of Ritu Trivedi who presented results from her meta-analysis on #mhealth technology interventions for patients with atrial fibrillation at #CSANZ2025 Multidisciplinary Prize Finalist Session 👏🫀
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The burden of digital tools in the care (and self care) of people living with chronic conditions - includes a very nice display of the burden of apps as the number of conditions increases. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Excited and humbled to be part of the founding International Advisory Board for The Lancet Primary Care 😊👩💻🩺👩🏽⚕️
Stay tuned for the first issue of the journal, coming out this year🚀📕
@lancetprimarycare.bsky.social
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So lucky to work with amazing human beings 🥰 @warcusyd.bsky.social
This week, @warcusyd.bsky.social hosted the (booked-out) face2face event on day 2 of #DigitalHealthWeek2025, including EMCR showcase presentations and a panel on 'The Future of Digital Health' 🔮 with Professors @clarachow.bsky.social, Tim Shaw, and Leanne Togher, that I was fortunate to chair 🤓 🤩
Every year, we have lab awards 🏆 to celebrate helping behaviours across our team, which are essential in creating a positive workplace culture 🥳
The team then votes, and all nominees are mentioned in our Xmas party (photo below, missing some people)
Here are the 2024 nominees and winners
Double treat on a special day:
🌟Graduation of my (past)PhD student, now Dr Ritu Trivedi 👩🎓🥳
🌟Receiving the news of my promotion to Associate Professor in Digital Health at the University of Sydney, effective 1 Jan 2025 👩🎓🤓
Special thanks to @clarachow.bsky.social 🙏
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A Medscape report reveals 85% of physicians see a need for medical education reform to address AI's rise.
Experts call for early data science training to preserve clinical judgment and ensure patient safety. 🩺🖥️
Otavio Berwanger on “How to transform the way we deliver large-scale pragmatic CV clinical trials”. Amazing insights - how can we apply this in #DigitalHealth to conduct global “giant simple trials” to evaluate cardiovascular digital health interventions? #ACTA2024
Rosie Hicks, CEO of Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC): “If we can’t find and access our data then all the AI in the world is not gonna be very useful”. Australian Clinical Trials Alliance #ACTA2024
The SARS-CoV-2 spike protein can persist in the brain—in the skull bone marrow and meninges—to induce neurologic damage
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi... open-access
Spain has approved “paid climate leave” of up to four days to allow workers to avoid traveling during weather emergencies, a month after floods killed at least 224 people. Several companies had ordered employees to keep working despite a red alert issued by the national weather agency.
Lovely afternoon celebration.
With the class of 2024 conferred PhDs
Not enough GPs do PhD in Australia and funding is needed to support clinicians with lived experience of one of the most complex of medical specialties.
GP’s are experts in complexity
Not many understand.
Timeline-like visualization showing monthly temperatures anomalies in the Arctic Circle from January 1950 through December 2023. Every month of the year is warming, especially in the late fall and early winter.
A timeline of monthly temperature change in the #Arctic from 1950 through all of 2023...
[*Click to open*]
Download high-resolution version: zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe... (ECMWF ERA5 data)
Nature: A place of joy’: why scientists are joining the rush to Bluesky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
not from #AHA24, but I found since I went looking at @jamacurrent.bsky.social for content - this one is from JAMA Card
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Usually women have lower BP than men - but this changes with age!
4 cohorts (Framingham, ARIC, MESA & CARDIA) were used to examine this
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