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Walgreens and Freenome form a multi-year relationship to advance clinical studies of Freenome’s blood-based tests for the early detection of cancer. Walgreens will combine its national footprint, patient insights, compliant recruitment technology…
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An international study led by researchers at the Faculty of Dentistry of the University of Hong Kong has developed and tested a new AI model for screening gingivitis, or gum inflammation, from images inside…
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By Anuja Vaidya
June 15, 2023 – States with telehealth payment parity laws had a 23 percent higher likelihood of telehealth use among residents compared to states that did not implement these laws, according to a…
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By Hannah Nelson
June 15, 2023 – Clinicians primarily use emojis and emoticons in clinical text messaging to convey new and interactionally salient information, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.
Researchers conducted a qualitative…
Background: Implicit theories of health describe individuals’ beliefs about the malleability of health. Individuals with an incremental theory of health believe that health, in general, is malleable, whereas individuals with an entity theory of…
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By Sara Heath
June 14, 2023 – Three researchers from UC Riverside think using emojis could enhance patient-provider communication, especially among underrepresented patient populations.
Writing in JAMA Network Open commentary, the group explained that the near-universality of…
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A plethora of classification models for the detection of glaucoma from fundus images have been proposed in recent years. Often trained with data from a single glaucoma clinic, they report impressive performance on internal…
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By Mark Melchionna
June 13, 2023 – Pandemic-era flexibilities expanded access to telemental healthcare services, but a new RAND Corporation study, obtained via email, showed that racial health disparities still persisted.
Particularly, the study showed that counties…
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By Shania Kennedy
June 13, 2023 – Researchers have developed a deep learning (DL) model capable of recognizing standardized surgical fields and performing automatic surgical skill assessments using intraoperative videos of laparoscopic colorectal procedures, according to…
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Health systems can reduce costs by providing their employees homegrown telemedicine services, according to new research.
Penn Medicine recently published a study in the American Journal of Managed Care on the economics of providing telemedicine…
