Over the last ten years, there has been considerable progress in using digital behavioral phenotypes, captured passively and continuously from smartphones and wearable devices, to infer depressive mood. However, most digital phenotype studies suffer…
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Parkinson’s disease (PD) and essential tremor (ET) are prevalent movement disorders that mainly affect elderly people, presenting diagnostic challenges due to shared clinical features. While both disorders exhibit distinct speech patterns—hypokinetic dysarthria in PD…
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Atrium Health’s innovative approach to fall prevention, driven by advanced monitoring technology and strategic collaborations, has yielded significant reductions in fall rates and associated costs. By overcoming previous limitations in data collection and analysis,…
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Atrium Health’s approach to fall prevention used to be inadequate, and was not properly protecting its hospital patients’ safety.THE PROBLEM
The health system’s previous falls prevention technology lacked the discreteness required to obtain specific patient…
Millions of Americans struggle with ongoing pain from chronic conditions — a problem that costs the U.S. an estimated $635 billion each year and has played a key role in the country’s persisting opioid…
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Heather Randall, Ph.D., Chief Compliance Officer, TrustCommerce, a Sphere Company
Artificial intelligence (AI) is earning recognition for its potential benefits to the healthcare sector at large, from its ability to improve care and increase efficiency,…
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By Hannah Nelson
January 02, 2024 – Inpatient EHR messaging patterns differ by role, with medicine providers sending and receiving 2.8 and 3.1 times the average daily messaging volume compared to other groups, according to a…
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Previous studies have associated COVID-19 symptoms severity with levels of physical activity. We therefore investigated longitudinal trajectories of COVID-19 symptoms in a cohort of healthcare workers (HCWs) with non-hospitalised COVID-19 and their real-world physical…
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Differentiating between bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder can be challenging for clinicians. The diagnostic process might benefit from new ways of monitoring the phenotypes of these disorders. Smartphone data might offer insight in…
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Alpha Sophia announces an upcoming change to its pricing structure for the Growth Plan, effective from January 1, 2024. To better align with the usage patterns of its valued customers, Alpha Sophia will increase…
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