Health Policy

Artificial Intelligence as a Catalyst for Value-Based Health Insurance in the United States: Narrative Review and Policy Perspective.

The United States health insurance system is at a critical crossroads. Inflating costs, fragmented c...

HealthData@MAD-R&I: Protocol for Design and Development of a Regional Health Data Infrastructure to Enable Secondary Use of Health Data in Research and Innovation.

BACKGROUND: The exponential growth of electronic health records (EHRs), together with the recent ent...

Characterizing patients who benefit from mature medical AI models in real-world clinical applications.

Medical artificial intelligence (AI) is being rapidly deployed in clinical practice, yet its real-wo...

A review of machine learning applications in the prediction of selected groundwater quality parameters: Key lessons, knowledge gaps, and future directions.

Rigorous prediction and assessment of groundwater quality is a critical component of sustainable wat...

Mapping the evidence on environmental health services in healthcare facilities in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic literature inventory of over 4,000 studies.

BACKGROUND: Environmental health services in healthcare facilities-including water, sanitation, hygi...

Ensuring the integrity of AI models: a blockchain-based approach for protecting medical imaging training data.

The development of trustworthy AI models is crucial, particularly for critical medical applications ...

Disseminating Health Prevention Programs Using AI-Crafted, Culturally Tailored Ads for Somali American Adolescents.

Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and digital health messaging present opportuniti...

Trust, truth and transparency: analysing the references underpinning AI-generated surgical information.

INTRODUCTION: Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots, powered by large language models, are used incr...

Machine Learning for Predicting Colorectal Cancer-Specific Mortality: The Role of Socioeconomic Inequalities in Public Policy.

BACKGROUND: Colorectal cancer remains a leading cause of mortality worldwide. We investigated whethe...

Financial Burden in Adults With Chronic Illness in Switzerland: A Secondary Analysis of Qualitative Interviews Using Natural Language Processing and Topic Modeling.

BACKGROUND: Chronic illness may cause a financial burden that affects patients, their caregivers, an...

Telehealth Approaches for Pediatric Otitis Media and Clinical Outcomes: Scoping Review.

BACKGROUND: Otitis media (OM) is a common pediatric infection worldwide. Conventionally, accurate di...

Supervised machine learning model to predict total knee replacement in a large osteoartrhitis real-world evidence dataset using retrospectively 20-year insurance data from Israel.

'Bad manners'-refocusing on 'bedside manner' as a core professional behaviour for doctors.

Healthcare systems globally face unprecedented pressures, with increasing patient volumes and resour...

Concordant and Fluid-Specific Glycosylation Alterations in Serum and Saliva Enable Non-Invasive Diagnosis of Colorectal Cancer.

Colorectal cancer (CRC) remains a leading cause of cancer-related mortality, highlighting the need f...

Mirror Descent Safe Policy Optimization for Reinforcement Learning Agents.

Embodied intelligence and related disciplines have identified several mechanisms that help embodied ...

Integrating Large Language Models Into Trauma Education for Medical Students: Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial.

BACKGROUND: The exponential growth of medical knowledge presents a paradox for modern medical educat...

Addressing free rider issues in academic authorship in medical education.

AIM: Authorship is a key marker for academic achievement, yet its integrity is increasingly compromi...

Artificial intelligence in surgical care within low-income and middle-income countries: a scoping review of development, validation, and deployment.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to expand access to high-quality surgical care in low...

Prediction and assessment of water quality index for surface water using 1D CNN and SVR models.

Water quality monitoring is essential for managing and protecting surface water resources. Tradition...

Machine Learning Prediction of Progression to Dialysis in Patients With Polycystic Kidney Disease: Population-Based Retrospective Cohort Study.

BACKGROUND: Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), characterized by progressive cyst ...

Using AI to enhance healthcare resource management and allocation: A focus on the autism community in Alabama.

This study investigates the potential of artificial intelligence, particularly Natural Language Proc...