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The Trump administration is pushing an initiative for millions of Americans to upload personal health data and medical records on new apps and systems run by private tech companies, promising that will make it easier […]

Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are the fundamental building blocks of our circulatory system, giving rise to all blood cell types, including white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets. HSCs play a key role in […]

Renowned physician-scientist Eric J. Topol, M.D., and Harvard artificial intelligence (AI) expert Pranav Rajpurkar, Ph.D., advocate for a clear separation of the roles between AI systems and radiologists in an editorial published in Radiology.This post […]

A multidisciplinary team at UT Southwestern Medical Center has developed an AI-enabled pipeline that can quickly and accurately extract relevant information from complex, free-text medical records. The team’s novel approach, published in npj Digital Medicine, […]

The “Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence for Personalized Risk Assessment” (AI4HF) project has successfully engaged clinicians, patients and other stakeholders across Europe, South America and Africa to achieve its target to co-design, develop and evaluate the first […]

The use of secure messaging, which lets patients communicate with clinicians or care teams through an online portal, has increased in recent years. While secure messaging can increase access to care, answering a high volume […]

A study published in The Annals of Family Medicine examined if gaining housing increased rates of colorectal and breast cancer screening in a cohort of veterans who experience homelessness. The paper is titled “Is gaining […]

Women who are overdue for cervical cancer screening are most likely to participate in screening when a self-sampling kit is offered by a health care professional as part of routine GP appointments, according to a […]

Remote-scalable cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)-based chronic pain (CP) treatments yield modest improvements in high-impact chronic pain compared with usual care, according to a study published online July 23 in the JAMA.This post was originally published […]

There was a time, just a couple of decades ago, when researchers in psychology and health always had to engage with people face-to-face or using the telephone. The worst case scenario was sending questionnaire packs […]