Health Informatics

Mental health services around the world are stretched thinner than ever. Long wait times, barriers to accessing care and rising rates of depression and anxiety have made it harder for people to get timely help.... Read more

The authors of an editorial published in the American Journal of Hematology, claim that "generative Artificial Intelligence can be exploited to produce fraudulent scientific images, either from scratch or by modifying existing visual materials to increase the realism of the final fabricated product."... Read more

McGill University researchers, in collaboration with colleagues in Israel and Ireland, have developed AI technology that can detect patterns in gut bacteria to identify complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) with remarkable accuracy, potentially transforming how CRPS is diagnosed and treated.... Read more

What if data could help predict a patient's prognosis, streamline hospital operations, or optimize human resources in medicine? A book fresh off the shelves, "The Analytics Edge in Healthcare," shows that this is already happening, and demonstrates how to scale it.... Read more

A review by the American College of Physicians (ACP) of performance measures for diabetes found that of the 14 performance measures relevant to internal medicine, only four meet ACP's rigorous standards for appropriate use, high-quality evidence, and scientific acceptability. "Quality Indicators for Diabetes in Adults: A Review of Performance Measures... Read more

A novel health-assessment tool uses eight metrics derived from a person's physical exam and routine lab tests to characterize biological age. It may be able to predict a person's risk of disability and death better than current health predictors.... Read more

Taylan Topcu is leading a team of Virginia Tech researchers using digital twins to help take better care of health care providers.... Read more

A recent study has demonstrated that a precision medicine approach improves treatment selection for patients with soft tissue sarcomas (STS) in a clinical setting. Published in npj Precision Oncology in March 2025, the research findings support using data-driven and phenotypic screening approaches to treat STS. The study was conducted by... Read more

Artificial intelligence (AI) is shaping the future of health care, offering new tools for earlier diagnosis of disease and more precise tracking of treatment outcomes. In a new Yale-led study, published in Arthritis Research & Therapy, researchers used a type of AI technology called deep neural network (DNN) analysis to... Read more

Researchers at Dartmouth College believe artificial intelligence can deliver reliable psychotherapy, distinguishing their work from the unproven and sometimes dubious mental health apps flooding today's market.... Read more

Researchers at Sutter Health, led by Cheryl Stults, Ph.D., found that an innovative ambient artificial intelligence platform showed promising results in easing the burden of clinical documentation for health care providers. The study, published today in JAMA Network Open, revealed significant reductions in documentation time and improved overall clinician satisfaction.... Read more

An estimated 7.2 million Americans aged 65 years and older are living with Alzheimer's dementia, and almost all adults feel it is important to diagnose the disease in the early stages, according to a report published by the Alzheimer's Association.... Read more

Researchers at the University of Utah's Department of Psychiatry and Huntsman Mental Health Institute have published a paper in Patterns introducing RiskPath, an open-source software toolkit that uses explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) to predict whether individuals will develop progressive and chronic diseases years before symptoms appear, potentially transforming how preventive... Read more

A study using artificial intelligence to classify patient pain archetypes and identify risk for severe pain after knee replacement has earned a Best of Meeting award at the 50th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ASRA). The honor, which recognizes excellence in scientific research,... Read more

The ambiguity in medical imaging can present major challenges for clinicians who are trying to identify disease. For instance, in a chest X-ray, pleural effusion, an abnormal buildup of fluid in the lungs, can look very much like pulmonary infiltrates, which are accumulations of pus or blood.... Read more