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 Monday Morning Update 6/16/25
HIStalk - (Monday June 16, 2025) Top News UCSF professor and University of California Health System chief data scientist Atul Butte, MD, PhD died Friday. He was 55.  How Specialists & General Providers Together Can Drive Early Detection of MASLD/MASH to Transform Patients’ Liver Health
eHealth Radio Network - (Sunday June 15, 2025)
Dr. Angelo Paredes, a Board-Certified Gastroenterologist and Transplant Hepatologist joins eHealth Radio and the eHealth Radio and Health News and Liver Health Channels. His practice focuses on the management of MASLD and MASH, liver… |
 Large scale causal modeling to identify adults at risk for combined and common variable immunodeficiencies
npj Digital Medicine - (Saturday June 14, 2025) Combined immunodeficiencies (CID) and common variable immunodeficiencies (CVID), prevalent yet substantially underdiagnosed primary immunodeficiencies, necessitate improved early detection. Leveraging large-scale electronic health records (EHR) from four nationwide US cohorts, we developed a novel causal…  A scoping review and evidence gap analysis of clinical AI fairness
npj Digital Medicine - (Saturday June 14, 2025) The ethical integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare necessitates addressing fairness. AI fairness involves mitigating biases in AI and leveraging AI to promote equity. Despite advancements, significant disconnects persist between technical solutions and… |
 A scoping review of self-supervised representation learning for clinical decision making using EHR categorical data
npj Digital Medicine - (Saturday June 14, 2025) The widespread adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and deep learning, particularly through Self-Supervised Representation Learning (SSRL) for categorical data, has transformed clinical decision-making. This scoping review, following PRISMA-ScR guidelines, examines 46 studies published…  Mobile application leads to psychological improvement and correlated neuroimmune function change in subjective cognitive decline
npj Digital Medicine - (Saturday June 14, 2025) Subjective cognitive decline (SCD) is a potential early marker of neurodegeneration, with negative affective states such as depression and anxiety significantly contributing to cognitive impairment. Digital treatments show promise, yet evidence of their use… |
 Unexpected advice for startup founders from an investor! #digitalhealth
BeKey - (Friday June 13, 2025)  Get as far as possible with your startup before taking VC investments….  An evaluation framework for ambient digital scribing tools in clinical applications
npj Digital Medicine - (Friday June 13, 2025) Ambient digital scribing (ADS) tools alleviate clinician documentation burden, reducing burnout and enhancing efficiency. As AI-driven ADS tools integrate into clinical workflows, robust governance is essential for ethical and secure deployment. This study proposes… |
 FedOcw: optimized federated learning for cross-lingual speech-based Parkinson’s disease detection
npj Digital Medicine - (Friday June 13, 2025) Accurate detection of Parkinson’s disease (PD) through speech analysis holds great promise for early diagnosis and improved patient management. However, developing robust machine learning models is challenging due to the decentralized nature of medical…  Tombot secures $6.1M for robotic pet
MobiHealthNews - (Friday June 13, 2025) Tombot, a California-based robotics company that makes a robotic puppy that serves as a companion animal for people who cannot care for a live animal, announced that it has closed an oversubscribed $6.1 million… |
