Digital health technologies hold significant potential for reducing global healthcare disparities. Large language models (LLMs) offer new opportunities to enhance access to culturally specific healthcare, including traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). This study evaluated the…
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This study aimed to identify key factors associated with different progression patterns of early osteoarthritis (OA) by developing a predictive model using patient-specific characteristics. From 2003 to 2017, data from 833 knees were analyzed….
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Background: Pain fluctuations are common in chronic musculoskeletal conditions, with periods of increased pain severity, known as pain flares, often occurring alongside worsening disease activity. These painful episodes can lead to significant impacts, including…
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The wide usage of artificial intelligence (AI) text-to-image generators raises concerns about the role of AI in amplifying misconceptions in healthcare. This study therefore evaluated the demographic accuracy and potential biases in the depiction…
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Older adults with insomnia face considerable challenges accessing treatment given limited availability to first-line therapy (Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia, CBT-I). This study evaluated the efficacy of Sleep Healthy Using the Internet for Older Adults…
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The widespread adoption of real-world data has given rise to numerous healthcare-distributed research networks, but multi-site analyses still face administrative burdens and data privacy challenges. In response, we developed a Collaborative One-shot Lossless Algorithm…
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Artificial intelligence applications in liver pathology remain limited, with existing tools either narrowly focused or lacking external validation. This study introduces HOTSPoT, an open-source, validated transformer-based model for automated segmentation of portal tracts in…
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Background: Some people are less likely to benefit from digital health interventions than others. Culture, along with other factors, contributes to these differences Digital health interventions that do not address a population’s cultural norms…
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) leads to high rates of emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalizations. This study evaluated a community-based digital health intervention’s association with acute care utilization among patients with moderate to…
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Real-world data (RWD) from electronic health records and digital health databases present unique opportunities to study causal effects in healthcare. While Difference-in-Differences (DiD) analysis is widely used for such analyses, it can be biased…
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