05/16/2024
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Digital biomarkers have emerged as a transformative source of health data. This necessitates a comprehensive exploration of the ethical complexities and challenges intrinsic to this cutting-edge technology.
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05/09/2024
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The Health Equity Across the AI Lifecycle (HEAAL) evaluates how the use of AI might affect health equity. It examines five crucial domains—accountability, fairness, fitness for purpose, reliability and validity, and transparency—across eight key decision points in the AI adoption process.
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05/07/2024
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This study aimed to: 1) describe hydration recommendation knowledge and behaviors by the overall sample and early vs late pregnancy, and 2) identify habits and barriers of using digital tools.
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05/03/2024
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Using a mathematical model and longitudinal antibody measurements from a vaccination cohort in Fukushima, Japan, this study investigates the dynamics of antibody responses following COVID-19 vaccination.
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04/25/2024
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This piece discusses the ongoing shift towards open access publication and how it represents a set of important yet far from inclusive changes in the academic publishing landscape.
04/22/2024
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The majority of biopsies received by pathologists for reporting do not contain invasive cancer. This yields opportunities for AI development in identifying cancerous and high-grade lesions in a slide.
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05/01/2024
Opinion
Maximizing access to life-saving medications and getting patients to start and stay on treatment remain unsolved issues in LMICs. This piece discusses a need for new approaches to paying for care.
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04/15/2024
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This piece discusses the field of machine learning for healthcare which incentivizes work that is scientifically novel over work that ultimately impacts patients.
03/20/2024
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This study created a virtual ward pathway across a hospital trust, utilizing patients’ own smartphones, a patient-facing digital health record platform and a centralized remote monitoring hub.
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03/15/2024
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This study assesses the role of simple and easily available routinely collected blood count parameters as predictors for patients’ prognosis.
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