Sleep disturbances are an underrecognized factor associated with reduced workplace productivity (“presenteeism”). Previous studies have largely relied on self-reported sleep data, limiting their scalability and accuracy. We investigated associations between smartphone-based sleep metrics and…
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Background: Keystroke dynamics on smartphones have emerged as a promising form of passive digital biomarker. While previous studies have explored their utility in several diseases and disorders, relatively few have examined how these dynamics…
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Background: Digital health tools, such as mobile apps and wearable devices, have been widely adopted to support self-management of health behaviors. However, user engagement remains inconsistent, particularly among populations with varying BMI. While digital…
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What You Should Know:
– A new, collaborative analysis conducted by the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) Center of Digital Excellence (CODE) and nine major U.S. health systems provides critical operational evidence on Medicare telehealth utilization…
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Understanding Healthcare’s Operational Complexity
Healthcare represents one of the world’s most complex operating systems. Despite seemingly steady occupancy rates, hospital operations experience constant volatility. With a national average length of stay hovering around 4.7 days,…
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Spatial transcriptomics (ST) offers insights into gene expression patterns and their spatial context within the tumor microenvironment, but remains limited by the scalability of current sequencing technologies. Existing approaches infer ST from whole-slide images…
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Background: Military veterans may be at increased risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) compared to the general population. PTSD is often comorbid with harmful and problematic patterns of gambling. Behavioural therapies such as Acceptance…
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Measures of healthcare quality and equity often overlook when care is delivered, potentially masking important disparities. We present a novel, time-aware approach to detect racial inequities in hospice use among 100,480 Medicare beneficiaries with…
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Medical education faces a scalability crisis, where rising class sizes strain individualized instruction, while students increasingly adopt unvalidated Generative AI (GenAI) tools for individualized learning support. This study investigated how medical students integrate constrained…
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Respiratory circuit events, including fluid accumulation and circuit or cuff leakage during mechanical ventilation, increase ventilator-associated event risks but often go undetected. We developed a convolutional neural network analyzing 57,296 annotated breaths (26,768 training/internal…
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