Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
This paper introduces a voice-interactive chatbot designed to provide personalized health recommendations through a knowledge base built on validated medical literature. By leveraging 17 key health variables, the chatbot addresses approximately 150 m...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
Hospital readmissions are a major challenge for healthcare systems, leading to increased costs and adverse patient outcomes. Predicting which patients are at risk of readmission is critical for improving care and optimizing resource allocation. This ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
This paper investigates the development and evaluation of a chatbot for administering the EQ5D questionnaire with a focus on improving user experience and ease of completion. To achieve this, the chatbot employs an open-source conversational AI envir...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
This study investigates the application of a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) architecture for classifying hypertension using accelerometer data, specifically focusing on physical activity and sleep from the publicly available NHANES 2011-2012 dataset. ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
News media aggregate and report disposition counts during crises: how many people are affected, suspected affected, have died, and have recovered or been recovered; and they tend to do so in a timely and trustworthy manner. We present and evaluate a ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
Large Language Models (LLMs) offer potential for automating systematic reviews, a labor-intensive process in evidence-based medicine. We evaluated GPT-4o, GPT-4o-mini, and Llama 3.1:8B on abstract screening and risk of bias assessment using 12 Cochra...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
This work introduces a web application for extracting, processing, and visualizing data from sleep studies reports. Using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), the pipeline extracts over 75 key data points from fo...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
This study highlights domain shift in dataset distributions that impact machine learning performance in clinical natural language processing, analyzing linguistic differences across clinical narratives, biomedical abstracts, and news articles in Engl...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
The German Medical Text Project (GeMTeX) is one of the largest infrastructure efforts for German-language clinical documents. To determine the different starting points of the participating institutions, we conducted a survey regarding standards, ann...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
Monitoring adverse drug events (ADEs) is critical for pharmacovigilance and patient safety. However, identifying ADEs remains challenging, as suspected or confirmed side effects are often documented solely in the unstructured text of electronic healt...