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04/01/2025

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Perinatal mental health care goes digital: Opportunities for digital health to revolutionize the care delivery for healthier pregnancies and outcomes

Perinatal mental health care has remained on the sidelines of the maternal health crisis in the United States for too long. This team of authors gathered a consortium to contribute to a tidal wave of efforts aiming to remove that blind spot, or, one might even argue, a tabu existing in many societies around the world.

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Perinatal mental health care goes digital: Opportunities for digital health to revolutionize the care delivery for healthier pregnancies and outcomes

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03/31/2025

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Patient and clinician perceptions of telehealth in musculoskeletal physiotherapy services - A systematic review of the evidence-base

This critical review aims to understand patient and clinician views of telehealth adoption regarding effectiveness and satisfaction within musculoskeletal (MSK) physiotherapy services.

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Patient and clinician perceptions of telehealth in musculoskeletal physiotherapy services - A systematic review of the evidence-base

03/26/2025

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A flexible framework for minimal biomarker signature discovery from clinical omics studies without library size normalisation

The authors developed a framework called FS-PLS for identifying minimal sets of biomarkers for predicting disease state. The paper shows that the minimal gene signatures retain almost all of the accuracy of larger models

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A flexible framework for minimal biomarker signature discovery from clinical omics studies without library size normalisation

03/18/2025

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What makes clinical machine learning fair? A practical ethics framework

The prospects of a widespread and rapid integration of machine learning in clinical workflow have attracted considerable attention due to complex ethical implications–algorithmic bias being among the most frequently discussed ML models.

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03/12/2025

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Systemic transphobia and ongoing barriers to healthcare for transgender and nonbinary people: A historical analysis of #TransHealthFail

The purpose of this analysis was to explore transgender patients' negative healthcare experiences through Twitter posts using the hashtag #transhealthfail.

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03/04/2025

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Introducing the Team Card: Enhancing governance for medical Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems in the age of complexity

This paper introduces the Team Card (TC) as a protocol to address harmful biases in the development of clinical artificial intelligence (AI) systems by emphasizing the often-overlooked role of researchers’ positionality.

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01/09/2025

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A data management system for precision medicine

The authors defined, built and applied a MedDMS for precision medicine considering key factors such as GDPR compliance.

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12/23/2024

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A cluster randomized trial assessing the effect of a digital health algorithm on quality of care in Tanzania (DYNAMIC study)

This study evaluated the use of ePOCT+, a digital health clinical decision support algorithm for health providers, combined with point-of-care diagnostic tools, training, and mentorship.

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12/19/2024

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A voice-based algorithm can predict type 2 diabetes status in USA adults: Findings from the Colive Voice study

This study investigates the potential of using a voice-based algorithm to predict Type-2 Diabetes status in adults.

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12/18/2024

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EXAM: Ex-vivo allograft monitoring dashboard for the analysis of hypothermic machine perfusion data in deceased-donor kidney transplantation

This study developed a free software, EXAM, to analyze HMP data for state-of-the-art visualization and quality control.

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