High remote patient monitoring practices offer improved hypertension care
Nov 07, 2023
An increase was seen in hypertension medication fills, days’ supply and unique medications received, but an increase in hypertension-linked spending also was seen.
Exercise intervention beneficial for healthcare workers
Aug 10, 2023
A 12-week app-based intervention reduced depressive symptoms, burnout and absenteeism.
AI model can respond appropriately to ophthalmology questions
Aug 25, 2023
The likelihood of chatbot answers containing incorrect or inappropriate material was comparable with human answers.
In-hospital wearable activity trackers tied to improved outcomes
Jun 16, 2023
Patients using wearable trackers had higher physical activity and functioning.
Ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations on the rise
Dec 29, 2022
There was an almost twofold increase in the annual number of attacks seen from 2016 to 2021, exposing information of almost 42 million patients.
Self-fitting, over-the-counter hearing aids beneficial
Apr 17, 2023
Self-reported and clinical outcomes were similar to those seen with audiologist-fitted hearing aids.
AI can improve identification of social determinants of health in EHRs
Jan 12, 2024
93.8% of patients with adverse social determinants of health were identified with large language models.
Amazon to test drones to deliver prescriptions directly to patient homes
Oct 19, 2023
Although the company already delivers some prescriptions in two days, the drone method of delivery happens within an hour.
Online breathing program can up mental health-related quality of life in long COVID
May 03, 2022
Significant improvement was seen in the mental health composite score but not in physical composite score of health-related quality of life.