Health Policy

Operational 24-h PM2.5 forecasting using ensemble methods and open-access satellite data: application to Dakar, Senegal.

Accurate short-term air quality forecasting is urgently needed in African megacities. Chronic PM2.5 pollution threatens public health in these cities. At the same time, ground-based monitoring infrastructure remains sparse. This study develops and evaluates an operational 24-h PM2.5 forecasting system for the low-income housing (HLM) district of Dakar, Senegal. The site represents a high-exposure ...

Translating innovation into payment: A.I. reimbursement in U.S. health care.

Artificial intelligence (A.I.) technologies are increasingly deployed across clinical care, yet reimbursement remains a major barrier to sustainable adoption. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) currently reimburses A.I.-enabled technologies through a fragmented set of procedural codes, add-on payments, and legacy payment models, none of which were designed to support the complexity...

Diagnostic stewardship monitoring systems: institutional and system-level approaches.

Diagnostic stewardship-performing the right test for the right patient at the right time-improves diagnostic accuracy and reduces healthcare resource ...

Who Is Getting the Help They Need? An AI-Driven Study of Intersectional Disparities in Mental Health Service Utilization Among Young Adults with Suicidal Ideation.

Despite the critical role of mental health services in suicide prevention, disparities in service utilization persist across various individual and so...

Addressing the Treatment Gap for Pediatric Headache in Underserved Regions.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: This review explores innovative strategies to address the treatment gap for pediatric headache disorders in underserved regions wor...

Digital patient education and its role in overcoming dental anxiety and barriers to endodontic care.

Dental fear and anxiety (DFA) serve as a significant obstacle to oral healthcare, affecting approximately 15% of the adult population. In endodontics,...

Real-world evidence bridging clinical trials and routine clinical practice to improve patient care.

Real-world evidence (RWE) has emerged as an essential complement to randomized controlled trial data, providing insights into the effectiveness, safet...

Automated vehicle access control system using license plate recognition.

To meet the increased parking challenges posed by the rapid growth in university parking demand, there is a growing demand for smart parking systems t...

A machine learning-assisted integrated framework for linking water quality and phytoplankton carbon fixation potential in drinking water reservoirs.

Water quality and carbon-related processes in drinking water reservoirs are increasingly recognized as interrelated challenges in sustainable water ma...

Foundation for Artificial Intelligence-Driven Democratization of Healthcare Access.

INTRODUCTION: Healthcare systems worldwide face unprecedented challenges, including escalating costs, workforce shortages, and access disparities, whi...

Clinical-ShiftEval: a framework for simulating and evaluating model adaptation in dynamic clinical NLP tasks.

BACKGROUND: Clinical natural language processing (NLP) models are widely used to extract information from electronic health records (EHR) and support ...

Bridging innovation and implementation in laboratory medicine: insights from a global survey on unmet needs and emerging technologies.

Technological innovation in laboratory medicine is advancing rapidly, driven by artificial intelligence, next-generation sequencing, high-resolution m...

The Quality and Characteristics of Digital Mental Health Apps: Mixed Methods Study.

BACKGROUND: There are around 20,000 mental health apps available in app stores. The Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Apps (ORCHA), a Uni...

Prediction of OncotypeDX recurrence score using hematoxylin and eosin-stained whole slide images.

The OncotypeDX 21-gene assay guides adjuvant chemotherapy decisions in early-stage, hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer, but cost a...

An exploratory study of multi-channel CNN for early detection of lung cancer from longitudinal healthcare records.

Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide, with poor survival rates due to late-stage detection. Current low-dose co...

Search-guided regression ensembles for accurate, interpretable, and uncertainty-aware construction cost estimation.

Accurate and interpretable construction cost estimation remains a major challenge due to complex nonlinear dependencies, heterogeneous data distributi...

[Artificial intelligence in pediatric ophthalmology: applications and perspectives].

Pediatric visual health is not only inextricably linked to an individual's lifelong cognitive development and quality of life, but also constitutes a ...

The expected benefits of using social robots when working with institutionalised older adults: A qualitative study among healthcare professionals.

The shortage of healthcare professionals increasingly challenges the provision of care for institutionalised older adults. This study investigates hea...

Design and methodology of the AI-empowered Clinical Evidence for Integrated Chinese-Western Medicine (ACE-iMed) platform.

BACKGROUND: Integrated Chinese-Western medicine (ICWM) is a distinctive medical system that plays an important role in healthcare and has received inc...

Establishing a Sustainable Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure for Health Care Systems Part II: Consideration of Key Regulatory and Bioethical Barriers to Implementation.

Establishing an artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure is contingent upon processes being conducted within structured regulatory frameworks that ...