Background: Mobile apps are being increasingly used to foster healthy lifestyles. There is a growing need for clear, standardized guidelines to help users select safe and effective health apps. Objective: Our study aimed to…
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Background: Social exchange processes, such as social support and social control, can promote health behavior change. However, these processes are often neglected when studying health behavior change and designing interventions. Intervening on these social…
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Epic and 63 health systems ask The Sequoia Project to centralize vetting and ongoing monitoring of organizations that exchange medical records via Carequality and TEFCA. Epic recommends the following changes:
Replace…
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The News: Ventra Health has launched vCision, a new revenue intelligence platform powered by “Agentic AI” (autonomous digital agents) to optimize the revenue cycle for facility-based physicians.The Partnership: The platform was…
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Regulating AI Behavior, Not AI Theory
The new laws, SB 243 and AB 489, share a common assumption: that AI systems will encounter edge cases. Experts and lawmakers see functionality issues where conversations will drift,…
Background: Mobile health (mHealth) apps are increasingly being used to promote physical activity (PA) and can support exercise uptake and maintenance. Despite their potential, these tools face high dropout rates and inconsistent adherence, posing…
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Learn human behavior and psychology, and understand what drives people towards or away from something. There are a lot of great tools in negotiation, sales, and user experience research that can help you refine…
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We're excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is David Bates, Founder and CEO at Linus Health. I talk with David…
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Kang Hsu, Jr. MD, Chief Medical Officer, Canary Speech
Patient aggression in the hospital is a growing problem. Among nurses and other staff, violent or abusive behaviors have been linked to burnout and PTSD — two of the many reasons nurses have left…
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Background: Many mobile health (mHealth) apps focus on promoting physical activity (PA) and healthy eating (HE). However, there is limited empirical evidence regarding their effectiveness in initiating and sustaining behavior change, particularly among children…
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