Background: Population studies show that musculoskeletal conditions are a leading contributor to the total burden of healthy life lost, second only to cancer and with a similar burden to cardiovascular disease. Prioritizing the delivery…
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Background: Delivery of preventative interventions via mobile phone apps offers an effective and accessible way to address the global priority of improving the mental health of adolescents and young adults. A proven risk factor…
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Background: Gait speed is a valuable biomarker for mobility and overall health assessment. Existing methods to measure gait speed require expensive equipment or personnel assistance, limiting their use in unsupervised, daily-life conditions. The availability…
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Large language models (LLMs) can identify and predict mental health crises with comparable accuracy to clinicians, but in a significantly shorter amount of time, a new study shows. The findings indicate the potential AI…
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Integration of health and activity data from various wearable devices into research studies presents technical and operational challenges. The Awesome Data Acquisition Method (ADAM) is a versatile web-based system that was designed for integrating…
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A recent study in South Korea has explored the use of a cryptographic scheme widely used in secure elections to protect patient data used in training AI models. Researchers from Asan Medical Center have applied…
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What You Should Know: – Brightside Health, a telemental health company released research demonstrating the potential of large language models (LLM) in predicting mental health crises. – The study, published in JMIR Mental Health,…
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Background: Technology has become an integral part of our everyday life, and its use to manage and study health is no exception. Romantic partners play a critical role in managing chronic health conditions as…
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Background: It is not known whether an intervention made mandatory as a physical education (PE) class assignment and aimed at promoting physical activity (PA) in adolescents can create a healthy walking habit, which would…
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