Published in JMIR mHealth and uHealth
Recently, companies such as Apple Inc, Fitbit Inc, and Garmin Ltd have released new wearable blood oxygenation measurement technologies. Although the release of these technologies has great potential for generating health-related information, it is important to acknowledge the repercussions of consumer-targeted biometric monitoring technologies (Bi...
Published in GMS Journal for Medical Education
Digitalization in medicine is transforming the everyday work and the environment of current and future physicians – and thereby brings new competencies required by the medical profession. The necessity for a curricular integration of related digital medicine and, in more general, digital health topics is mostly undisputed; however, few specific con...
Published in Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde
The treatment of patients with early breast cancer has always been characterised by escalation by new therapies and de-escalation through identification of better treatment regimens or introduction of better tools to estimate prognosis. Efforts in some of these areas in the last few years have led to solid data. The results of the large studies of ...
Published in Frontiers in Public Health
Technological innovations such as artificial intelligence and robotics may be of potential use in telemedicine and in building capacity to respond to future pandemics beyond the current COVID-19 era. Our international consortium of interdisciplinary experts in clinical medicine, health policy, and telemedicine have identified gaps in uptake and imp...
Published in JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies
Background Measuring free-living gait using wearable devices may offer higher granularity and temporal resolution than the current clinical assessments for patients with Parkinson disease (PD). However, increasing the number of devices worn on the body adds to the patient burden and impacts the compliance. Objective This study aimed to investigate ...
Published in Frontiers in Physiology
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) have become the number 1 threat to human health. Their numerous complications mean that many countries remain unable to prevent the rapid growth of such diseases, although significant health resources have been invested toward their prevention and management. Electrocardiogram (ECG) is the most important non-invasive ...
Published in JMIR Mental Health
Background Adherence to medication is often represented in the form of a success percentage over a period of time. Although noticeable changes to aggregate adherence levels may be indicative of unstable medication behavior, a lack of noticeable changes in aggregate levels over time does not necessarily indicate stability. The ability to detect deve...
Published in Pharmacy: Journal of Pharmacy Education and Practice
Remote physiologic monitoring (RPM) services involve the transmission of patient-collected physiologic data to the healthcare team. These data are then analyzed to determine what changes may be needed to enhance patient care. While pharmacists may not be recognized as billing providers through some payers, there are opportunities for pharmacist col...
Published in Dermatologic Therapy
Published in Journal of Medical Internet Research
Background The internet hospital is an innovative organizational form and service mode under the tide of internet plus in the Chinese medical industry. It is the product of the interaction between consumer health needs and supply-side reform. However, there has still been no systematic summary of its establishment and definition, nor has there been...
