Midlife women’s health clinic Midi Health is teaming up with digital cognitive assessment company Neurotrack to help women determine whether brain fog symptoms are indicative of menopause or signs of severe cognitive impairment such…
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Background: Adherence to medication is estimated to be around 50% for chronically ill patients in high-income countries. Improving the effectiveness of adherence interventions could have a far greater impact on population health than any…
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Background: An increasing number of people are using vapes (e-cigarettes), and with growing evidence of associated harms there is a need for acceptable cessation support and interventions. Smartphone applications (apps) for health and wellbeing…
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Background: Physical activity has well-known and broad health benefits, including antidepressive and anxiolytic effects. However, only approximately half of Americans meet even the minimum exercise recommendations. Individuals with anxiety, depression, or related conditions are…
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An over-the-counter continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) solution developed by Dexcom called Stelo has received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).Available without the need for a prescription, the wearable biosensor boasts a battery…
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Healthy.io, the global leader in transforming the smartphone camera into a medical device, is launching a groundbreaking program utilizing smartphone-based technology to improve wound care management for patients suffering from chronic diabetic…
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UPMC physicians develop a AI-powered smartphone app that can diagnosis acute otitis media by analyzing video from a phone-connected otoscope.
Pediatric clinicians at Mass General Brigham create a series of 45 instructional smartphone videos for…
By Shania Kennedy
March 04, 2024 – Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) and UPMC have developed a smartphone application that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to diagnose ear infections, specifically acute otitis media (AOM), in…
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While digital phenotyping provides opportunities for unobtrusive, real-time mental health assessments, the integration of its modalities is not trivial due to high dimensionalities and discrepancies in sampling frequencies. We provide an integrated pipeline that…
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Over the last ten years, there has been considerable progress in using digital behavioral phenotypes, captured passively and continuously from smartphones and wearable devices, to infer depressive mood. However, most digital phenotype studies suffer…
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