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Can health technologies be "care optimizers"? A normative evaluation of digital health technologies in light of postphenomenological reflections.

The integration of new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) into healthcare has initiated profound changes in clinical practice, reshaping not only clinical workflows but the relational structure of care itself. Among the most significant developments is the transformation of the traditional doctor–patient dyad into a doctor–patient–technology triad. Philosophical studies of technolog...

Mar 5 2026 41784921

Automated Annotation of Pain Chronicity in Patients With Back Pain by Using Electronic Health Records: Retrospective Study.

BACKGROUND: Chronic back pain is a severe health condition with underlying biopsychosocial factors that make diagnosis difficult, and pain chronicity has been shown to be an important variable for studying patient outcomes. Due to the absence of standardized criteria, pain chronicity needs to be manually annotated by clinicians in electronic health records (EHRs), which is not only time consuming ...

Mar 5 2026 41785453
AI task-shifting for echocardiographic LVEF assessment in Singapore: an economic evaluation.

BACKGROUND: Accurate assessment of left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) is crucial for heart failure (HF) diagnosis but requires skilled sonograp...

Mar 5 2026 41784150
Federation Opacity and the Promise of Federated Learning in Healthcare.

Federated learning (FL) is a machine learning (ML) approach that allows multiple devices or institutions to collaboratively train an ML model without ...

Mar 5 2026 41784205
Smart farming approaches in medicinal plant cultivation: a review of techniques, benefits, and sustainability.

Smart farming technologies significantly enhance medicinal plant cultivation by improving yield, quality, and sustainability, while addressing traditi...

Mar 5 2026 41784667
Cost-effectiveness analysis of artificial intelligence-assisted risk stratification of indeterminate pulmonary nodules.

BACKGROUND: Artificial intelligence-based radiomic approaches have been shown to accurately evaluate indeterminate pulmonary nodules. With the expansi...

Mar 5 2026 41785281
Comparing deep learning and classical regression approaches for predicting healthcare expenditure and spending: a systematic review.

AIMS: This study compares deep learning architectures with traditional regression and tree-based models for individual-level healthcare cost predictio...

Mar 4 2026 41779998
Evaluation of Otolaryngology Provider Bias in Portal Messaging.

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Patient messaging portals are widely used in clinical practice and are linked to improved patient outcomes, but they are also a...

Mar 4 2026 41785556
An artificial intelligence prediction model for optimizing patient selection for cardiac imaging for the investigation of suspected coronary artery disease.

AIMS: Nearly, 40% of patients undergoing elective invasive coronary angiography (ICA) are diagnosed with non-obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD)...

Mar 4 2026 41853638
Exploring the impact of reimbursement ratios on willingness to vaccinate: A mixed-effects modeling approach using panel data.

Vaccination remains one of the most cost-effective methods for disease prevention. However, utilization of self-paid vaccines, including EV71, varicel...

Mar 3 2026 41774860
Evaluation of a Community-Based AI-Assisted Visual Impairment Screening Model for Performance, Operational Efficiency, Acceptability, Feasibility, and Costs: Protocol for a 2-Arm Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial.

BACKGROUND: Visual impairment (VI) affects more than 600 million people globally and significantly reduces quality of life. In Singapore, 20% of adult...

Mar 2 2026 41773693
Comparing Logistic Regression and Artificial Neural Network Models for Analyzing Medicare Utilization and Costs Among Older Adults.

BACKGROUND: Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are increasingly applied in health care outcome prediction, yet their relative benefits compared with tr...

Mar 2 2026 41770991
Advancing Global Nursing Policy: AI-Driven Health Literacy Innovations for Migrant Domestic Workers.

AIM: This perspective proposes evidence-informed strategies to advance health literacy equity for migrant domestic workers (MDWs) globally, integratin...

Mar 1 2026 41562517
Digital Skills Assessments in Occupational Therapy: A Scoping Review.

IMPORTANCE: Digital skills are increasingly essential in performing daily activities. Occupational therapy practitioners require valid and accessible ...

Mar 1 2026 41609483
A Comprehensive Risk Analysis Framework for Medical AI: A Mixed-Methods Approach.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is set to transform traditional healthcare delivery and patient care. However, this transformation presents a range of ch...

Mar 1 2026 41715946
Filling of incomplete sinograms from sparse PET detector configurations using a residual U-Net.

BACKGROUND: Long axial field-of-view PET scanners are becoming increasingly available worldwide for clinical and research nuclear medicine examination...

Mar 1 2026 41755757
Assessing image quality in photoacoustic imaging: A metric-based and deep learning-based evaluation.

Photoacoustic (PA) imaging offers high-resolution functional imaging in vivo, but image quality varies with acquisition hardware, reconstruction metho...

Feb 28 2026 41847599
Helping people navigate and make sense of cancer information: challenges and perspectives.

People living with cancer, and their caregivers and families, have access to many sources of health information. This brings both positives and challe...

Feb 27 2026 41757437
Artificial Intelligence in Health Professions Education: A Qualitative Study of Student Experiences.

BACKGROUND: Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly integrated into education and healthcare, raising questions about how students use these tech...

Feb 27 2026 41758974
Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of artificial intelligence in Barrett's surveillance.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a promising tool to detect early dysplasia in Barrett's esophagus (BE). However, the cost-effectiveness of...

Feb 27 2026 41760120
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