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Parents’ Perceptions of Children’s and Adolescents’ Use of Electronic Devices to Promote Physical Activity: Systematic Review of Qualitative Evidence

JMIR mHealth and uHealth - (Thursday July 20, 2023)
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Background: The use of physical activity (PA) electronic devices offers a unique opportunity to engage children and adolescents in PA. For this age group (2-17 years), parents play a key role in promoting healthy…

Planting Seeds for the Future: Scoping Review of Child Health Promotion Apps for Parents

JMIR mHealth and uHealth - (Thursday July 20, 2023)
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Background: Increasingly, parents use child health promotion apps to find health information. An overview of child health promotion apps for parents currently does not exist. The scope of child health topics addressed by parent…

AI, Ransomware Remain Prevalent in Evolving Cybersecurity Landscape

Health IT Security - (Thursday July 20, 2023)
AI/ Daily Reads/ Health IT Security

By Sarai Rodriguez

July 20, 2023 – Healthcare organizations face an uptick in cyber threats, as malicious actors turn to tools like ransomware, artificial intelligence (AI), and Internet of Things (IoT) attacks. These threats are becoming…

SNAP Benefits Miss Mark in 78% of US Counties, Fueling Food Insecurity

Patient Engagement HIT - (Thursday July 20, 2023)
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By Sarai Rodriguez

July 20, 2023 – Amid soaring food prices in 2022, SNAP benefits fall short of covering moderately priced meals in 78 percent of United States counties, a new Urban Institute survey revealed.

SNAP, the…

Collaboration Enhances Teledermatology for Underserved Areas

mHealth Intelligence - (Thursday July 20, 2023)
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By Mark Melchionna

July 20, 2023 – Led by the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) and Pfizer Global Medical Grants, a new effort will provide underserved areas with access to…

EPtalk by Dr. Jayne 7/20/23 – HIStalk

HIStalk - (Thursday July 20, 2023)
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There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t see an article or hear commentary about how AI is going to somehow cause the end of the world. Earlier this month, it caused…

Development and external validation of a pretrained deep learning model for the prediction of non-accidental trauma

npj Digital Medicine - (Thursday July 20, 2023)
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Non-accidental trauma (NAT) is deadly and difficult to predict. Transformer models pretrained on large datasets have recently produced state of the art performance on diverse prediction tasks, but the optimal pretraining strategies for diagnostic…

Private Grant Funding Supports Using AI to Address Disparities

Health IT Analytics - (Wednesday July 19, 2023)
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By Mark Melchionna

July 19, 2023 – After receiving funding from Scott and Debby Rechler, Northwell Health and the Feinstein Institutes are using artificial intelligence (AI) to create the Center for Health Outcomes under the Institute…

NLP EHR Integration Identifies Acute COVID-19 Cases with 94% Sensitivity

EHR Intelligence - (Wednesday July 19, 2023)
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By Hannah Nelson

July 19, 2023 – EHR integration of natural language processing (NLP) models can effectively triage patients reporting positive at-home COVID-19 test results through the patient portal, according to a study published in JAMA…

AI-Powered Pain Relief: Interview with Claire Smith, VP at Nevro |

Medgadget - (Wednesday July 19, 2023)
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Nevro, a medtech company based in California, has developed the HFX iQ spinal cord stimulation system, which is intended to treat chronic pain. While spinal cord stimulators can be very useful in controlling certain…


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