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Telehealth in Pediatrics: A Quick Review.

Telehealth has become a cornerstone of modern pediatric care, offering continuity, access and efficiency across a wide range of clinical settings. Initially a supplementary model, its rapid expansion during the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated innovation in virtual care delivery. Post-pandemic, pediatric telehealth remains a vital tool for improving access to behavioral health, chronic disease manage...

Sep 5 2026 42698305

An expert-based assessment of the quality, reliability, understandability, and readability of ChatGPT responses on cerebral palsy.

PURPOSE: In recent years, artificial intelligence-based language models have emerged as a means of rapid access to health-related information. This study aimed to evaluate the quality, reliability, understandability, and readability of ChatGPT's responses to frequently asked questions by families of children with cerebral palsy (CP). METHODS: Responses generated by the free version of ChatGPT to t...

Sep 4 2026 42696137
Nursing Process Data for Health Care Cost Prediction Using Machine Learning: Longitudinal Study.

BACKGROUND: Machine learning (ML) has been demonstrated to enhance health care cost prediction by handling high-dimensional data and identifying compl...

Sep 4 2026 42696494
Hidden in Plain Sight: Vector Embeddings give away Demographic Information.

Foundation models are widely used for compressing complex data into vector embeddings (vembs), offering reduced storage and computational efficiency, ...

Sep 4 2026 42696629
Governing artificial intelligence in cancer care: Perspectives and recommendations from patient organizations and the MULTIR consortium.

BACKGROUND: Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to improve cancer care. Its implementation must align with patients' needs, values, and liv...

Sep 4 2026 42697525
Digital pathology, image analysis, and artificial intelligence in liver disease.

Advances in digital pathology, image analysis, and artificial intelligence (AI) are rapidly transforming how pathologists and researchers interact wit...

Sep 4 2026 42697794
What Platform Scores Miss: Multidimensional Evaluation of AI Teaching Agents in Medical Education.

BACKGROUND: Large language model (LLM)-based AI teaching agents are increasingly used in medical education, yet their pedagogical quality is typically...

Sep 3 2026 42690903
Applying an AI Decision Support Device During Cervical Cancer Screening in Bangladesh and Uganda: Implementation Study.

BACKGROUND: Screening is important for early detection of cervical cancer in low- and middle-income countries. Visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA...

Sep 3 2026 42691425
The future of precision oncology and artificial intelligence in Belgium: scenarios and policy responses.

PURPOSE: Precision medicine, also known as personalized medicine, enables the provision of tailored health services to patients. In the prevention, ea...

Sep 2 2026 40045482
Deep Learning-Based Intelligent Resource Management for Renewable Energy Engineering Projects.

This study integrates deep reinforcement learning (DRL) with lean management for renewable energy project scheduling. The problem is formulated as a c...

Sep 1 2026 42677879
Access to Essential Services: A Critical Factor for Predicting Recovery and Quantifying Resilience.

Essential services are necessary for individuals to recover from and adapt to disruptive events, yet the relationship between access to such services ...

Sep 1 2026 42603109
Exploring Patient-Reported Outcome Measures and Patient-Reported Experience Measures in Cardiovascular Value-Based Healthcare.

The use of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) and Patient-Reported Experience Measures (PREMs) in cardiovascular disease (CVD) healthcare is an...

Sep 1 2026 42633903
Digital Sensing for Comprehensive Tea Quality Evaluation: From Dry Tea to Tea Infusion and Infused Leaves.

Rapid advances in artificial intelligence, sensor technologies, and image recognition have accelerated the transition toward digital and intelligent s...

Sep 1 2026 42634132
Automating cost-effectiveness models with agentic artificial intelligence: Case study and implications for value assessment.

BACKGROUND: Health economic modeling is conceptually sophisticated but operationally repetitive and resource intensive. Recent advances in large langu...

Sep 1 2026 42640119
Molecules to market: A probabilistic artificial intelligence framework for predicting managed care adoption at the level of drug discovery.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly compressing the timeline from molecular discovery to regulatory submission, meaning pipeline therapies will re...

Sep 1 2026 42640125
Artificial intelligence-enabled causal estimate of Medicare drug plan integration in cancer care: A doubly robust machine learning instrumental variable analysis.

BACKGROUND: Artificial intelligence (AI) methods are increasingly used to strengthen policy evaluation in managed care pharmacy. Among Medicare benefi...

Sep 1 2026 42640126
Artificial intelligence in prior authorization and coverage decisions: A systematic review of methods, evidence gaps, and future implications for patient access.

BACKGROUND: Prior authorization (PA) is intended to support appropriate use and spending of services and medications, yet 1 in 6 insured adults report...

Sep 1 2026 42640127
Evaluating the Accuracy, Empathy, and Readability of Generative AI Versus Registered Nurses in Discharge Planning: A Vignette-Based Study.

AIM: To compare the multidimensional performance of discharge instructions generated by generative AI (GPT-4) versus those created by clinical registe...

Sep 1 2026 42655921
The Evolution and Global Impact of Uniportal Endoscopic Spine Surgery : A Korean Perspective and Historical Legacy.

Uniportal full-endoscopic spine surgery (FESS) has expanded over three decades from percutaneous discectomy to include multilevel decompression, endos...

Sep 1 2026 42675993
Smartphone-Based Fundus Imaging in Global Eye Care: Closing the Gap.

Smartphone-based fundus imaging (SBFI) is an emerging approach with potential relevance for global ophthalmic care, including in low- and middle-incom...

Aug 31 2026 42674180
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