July 2025

This figure is a model of multilevel factors associated with telemedicine utilization among racial/ethnic minority populations during the pandemic. Meddar et al. 2025

Image Credit: Meddar et al.

Research Articles

Perspectives of family medicine residents on artificial intelligence for survival estimation in patients with serious illness

Gemma Postill, Anglin Dent, Jill Dombroski, Amol A. Verma, Jeff Myers, Tavis Apramian

PLOS Digital Health: published July 1, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000917

Design and feasibility of smartphone-based digital phenotyping for long-term mental health monitoring in adolescents

Debbie Huang, Patrick Emedom-Nnamdi, Jukka-Pekka Onnela, Anna Van Meter

PLOS Digital Health: published July 1, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000883

Machine learning for the prediction of urosepsis using electronic health record data

Varuni Sarwal, Nadav Rakocz, Georgina Dominique, Jeffrey N. Chiang, A. Lenore Ackerman

PLOS Digital Health: published July 3, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000896

What does it take to design digitally enabled performance management and incentive interventions for community health programs: Lessons from Ethiopia

Alemnesh Hailemariam Mirkuzie, Yared Kifle, Gizachew Tadele Tiruneh, Girma Tadesse, Getnet Alem Teklu, Esubalew Sebsibe, Eyoel Mitiku, Aklilu Abera, Wondwossen Shiferaw, Birhutesfa Bekele, Wuleta Aklilu Betemariam, Desalew Emaway

PLOS Digital Health: published July 3, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000914

A comparative approach of machine learning models to predict attrition in a diabetes management program

Samantha Kanny, Grisha Post, Patricia Carbajales-Dale, William Cummings, Janet Evatt, Windsor Westbrook Sherrill

PLOS Digital Health: published July 7, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000930

Effectiveness of telerehabilitation for adults with neurological conditions in low and middle income countries: A systematic review

Eric Nkansah Opoku, Lorna Paul, Derrick Antwi, Katie Thomson, Shadrack Osei Asibey, Marian C. Brady, Frederike van Wijck, Fred Stephen Sarfo

PLOS Digital Health: published July 7, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000911

CombiANT reader: Deep learning-based automatic image processing tool to robustly quantify antibiotic interactions

Erik Hallström, Nikos Fatsis-Kavalopoulos, Manos Bimpis, Carolina Wählby, Anders Hast, Dan I. Andersson

PLOS Digital Health: published July 8, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000669

Digital health technologies for accessing contraceptive services among young people in Sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review protocol

Agnes Kyamulabi, Eva Oberle, Lotenna Olisaeloka, Innocent Kamya, Ingrid Nyesigire, Wendy V. Norman, Abdul-Fatawu Abdulai

PLOS Digital Health: published July 10, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000748

Barriers and facilitators of provision of telemedicine in Nigeria: A systematic review

Osagie Kenneth Cole, Mustapha Muhammed Abubakar, Abdulmuminu Isah, Sule Hayatu Sule, Blessing Onyinye Ukoha-Kalu

PLOS Digital Health: published July 10, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000934

Improving meningitis surveillance and diagnosis with machine learning: Insights from São Paulo

Audêncio Victor, Diego Augusto Medeiros Santos, Eduardo Koerich Nery, Danilo Pereira Mori, Pamella Cristina de Carvalho Lucas, Denise Cammarota, Guillermo Leonardo Florez Montero, Fabiano Novaes Barcellos Filho, Ana Lúcia Frugis Yu, Telma Regina Marques Pinto Carvalhanas

PLOS Digital Health: published July 10, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000925

Raising awareness of potential biases in medical machine learning: Experience from a Datathon

Harry Hochheiser, Jesse Klug, Thomas Mathie, Tom J. Pollard, Jesse D. Raffa, Stephanie L. Ballard, Evamarie A. Conrad, Smitha Edakalavan, Allan Joseph, Nader Alnomasy, Sarah Nutman, Veronika Hill, Sumit Kapoor, Eddie Pérez Claudio, Olga V. Kravchenko, Ruoting Li, Mehdi Nourelahi, Jenny Diaz, W. Michael Taylor, Sydney R. Rooney, Maeve Woeltje, Leo Anthony Celi, Christopher M. Horvat

PLOS Digital Health: published July 11, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000932

Short-horizon neonatal seizure prediction using EEG-based deep learning

Jonathan Kim, Edilberto Amorim, Vikram R. Rao, Hannah C. Glass, Danilo Bernardo

PLOS Digital Health: published July 11, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000890

Integrating equity, diversity, and inclusion throughout the lifecycle of artificial intelligence for healthcare: a scoping review

Ting Wang, Elham Emami, Dana Jafarpour, Raymond Tolentino, Genevieve Gore, Samira Abbasgholizadeh Rahimi

PLOS Digital Health: published July 14, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000941

The ActiveText@T2D text messaging behavioural intervention to increase physical activity in adults with type 2 diabetes: A prospective single-arm feasibility trial

Holly Blake, Mohammed Jameen Alsahli, Wendy J. Chaplin, Stathis Th. Konstantinidis

PLOS Digital Health: published July 18, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000953

Urban environmental and population factors as determinants of COVID-19 severity: A spatially-resolved probabilistic modeling approach

Jacob Roxon, Marie-Sophie Dumont, Eric Vilain, Mircea T. Sofonea, Roland J-M. Pellenq

PLOS Digital Health: published July 18, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000921

An artificial intelligence-based approach to identify volume status in patients with severe dengue using wearable PPG data

Ngan Nguyen Lyle, Ho Quang Chanh, Hao Nguyen Van, James Anibal, Stefan Karolcik, Damien Ming, Giang Nguyen Thi, Huyen Vu Ngo Thanh, Huy Nguyen Quang, Hai Ho Bich, Khoa Le Dinh Van, Van Hoang Minh Tu, Khanh Phan Nguyen Quoc, Huynh Trung Trieu, Qui Tu Phan, Tho Phan Vinh, Tai Luong Thi Hue, Pantelis Georgiou, Louise Thwaites, Sophie Yacoub, on behalf of the Vietnam ICU Translational Applications Laboratory (VITAL) investigators

PLOS Digital Health: published July 18, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000924

A mapping survey of digital clinical consultations in maternity care in England

Georgia Clancy, Kerry Evans, Helen Spiby, Victoria Barrett, Candice Sunney, Catrin Evans

PLOS Digital Health: published July 21, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000944

Emulating real-world GLP-1 efficacy in type 2 diabetes through causal learning and virtual patients

Calum Robert MacLellan, Hristo Petkov, Conor McKeag, Feng Dong, David John Lowe, Roma Maguire, Sotiris Moschoyiannis, Jo Armes, Simon Skene, Alastair Finlinson, Christopher Sainsbury

PLOS Digital Health: published July 21, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000927

Community-acquired pneumonia identification from electronic health records in the absence of a gold standard: A Bayesian latent class analysis

Jia Wei, Kevin Yuan, Augustine Luk, A. Sarah Walker, David W. Eyre

PLOS Digital Health: published July 21, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000936

Morphology and calcification characterization in patients undergoing TAVI: A 3D statistical shape modelling study

Raphaël Sivera, Ebba Montgomery-Liljeroth, Yaxi Chen, Silvia Schievano, Jan Brüning, Wouter Huberts, Anthony Mathur, Andrew Cook, Kush Patel, Claudio Capelli

PLOS Digital Health: published July 21, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000564

Using large language models to extract information from pediatric clinical reports

Katharina Danhauser, Yingding Wang, Christoph Klein, Uta Tacke, Larissa Mantoan, Laura Aurica Ritter, Florian Heinen, Chiara Nobile, Moritz Tacke

PLOS Digital Health: published July 23, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000919

Machine learning in dentistry: a scoping review

Shrey Lakhotia, Hormazd Godrej, Amandeep Kaur, Chaitanya Sai Nutakki, Michelle Mun, Pascal Eber, Leo Anthony Celi

PLOS Digital Health: published July 23, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000940

Artificial intelligence in pancreatic intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm imaging: A systematic review

Muhammad Ibtsaam Qadir, Jackson A. Baril, Michele T. Yip-Schneider, Duane Schonlau, Thi Thanh Thoa Tran, C. Max Schmidt, Fiona R. Kolbinger

PLOS Digital Health: published July 23, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000920

Radiomics analysis for the early diagnosis of common sexually transmitted infections and skin lesions

Jiajun Sun, Zhen Yu, Yingping Li, Janet M. Towns, Lin Zhang, Jason J. Ong, Zongyuan Ge, Christopher K. Fairley, Lei Zhang

PLOS Digital Health: published July 23, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000926

Integrating digital health technologies into the healthcare system: Challenges and opportunities in Nigeria

Adaeze E. Egwudo, Ayodapo O. Jegede, Tolulope A. Oyeniyi, Nkolika J. Ezekwelu, Samirah N. Abdu-Aguye, Azuka P. Okwuraiwe, Chizaram A. Onyeaghala, Theresa O. Ozoude, Muritala O. Suleiman, Grace O. Aziken, Oluchukwu P. Okeke, Olunike R. Abodunrin, George U. Eleje, Folahanmi T. Akinsolu, Olajide O. Sobande

PLOS Digital Health: published July 24, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000928

Video-based telemedicine utilization patterns and associated factors among racial and ethnic minorities in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic: A mixed-methods scoping review

John M. Meddar, Ratnalekha V. N. Viswanadham, Defne L. Levine, Tiffany R. Martinez, Kendra Willis, Noah Choi, Jackson Douglas, Katharine S. Lawrence

PLOS Digital Health: published July 24, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000952

Behavioral engagement patterns and psychosocial outcomes in web-based interpretation bias training for anxiety

Ángel Francisco Vela de la Garza Evia, Jeremy William Eberle, Sonia Baee, Emma Catherine Wolfe, Mehdi Boukhechba, Daniel Harold Funk, Bethany Ann Teachman, Laura Elizabeth Barnes

PLOS Digital Health: published July 24, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000945

Leveraging large language models for automated depression screening

Bazen Gashaw Teferra, Argyrios Perivolaris, Wei-Ni Hsiang, Christian Kevin Sidharta, Alice Rueda, Karisa Parkington, Yuqi Wu, Achint Soni, Reza Samavi, Rakesh Jetly, Yanbo Zhang, Bo Cao, Sirisha Rambhatla, Sri Krishnan, Venkat Bhat

PLOS Digital Health: published July 28, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000943

Families’ and clinicians’ experiences with telehealth assessments for autism: A mixed-methods systematic review

Panos Katakis, Paige Frankson, Georgia Lockwood Estrin, Jeanne Wolstencroft, Venus Mirzaei, Shermina Sayani, David Skuse, Michelle Heys

PLOS Digital Health: published July 29, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000931

Implicit versus explicit Bayesian priors for epistemic uncertainty estimation in clinical decision support

Malte Blattmann, Adrian Lindenmeyer, Stefan Franke, Thomas Neumuth, Daniel Schneider

PLOS Digital Health: published July 29, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000801

Topological data mapping of online hate speech, misinformation, and general mental health: A large language model based study

Andrew William Alexander, Hongbin Wang

PLOS Digital Health: published July 29, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000935

Feature representation in analysing childhood vaccination defaulter risk predictors: A scoping review of studies in low-resource settings

Eliezer Ofori Odei-Lartey, Stephaney Gyaase, Solomon Nyame, Dominic Asamoah, Kwaku Poku Asante, James Ben Hayfron-Acquah

PLOS Digital Health: published July 30, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000965

Citizens’ feedback on health service and the responses of health authorities of Bangladesh: An analysis of the Grievance Redress System

Md Abdullah Saeed Khan, Md Toufiq Hassan Shawon, Atonu Rabbani

PLOS Digital Health: published July 30, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000967

Telemonitoring starting in the emergency department as an alternative to acute hospital admission: A prospective pilot study focusing on patient preferences and first experience

Noortje Zelis, Dewa Westerman, Anouk Schevers, Nicole v Eldik, Patricia M. Stassen

PLOS Digital Health: published July 31, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000962

Review

The role of artificial intelligence in maternal and child health: Progress, controversies, and future directions

Audêncio Victor

PLOS Digital Health: published July 17, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000938

Correction

Correction: Neurological diagnoses in hospitalized COVID-19 patients associated with adverse outcomes: A multinational cohort study

Meghan R. Hutch, Jiyeon Son, Trang T. Le, Chuan Hong, Xuan Wang, Zahra Shakeri Hossein Abad, Michele Morris, Alba Gutiérrez-Sacristán, Jeffrey G. Klann, Anastasia Spiridou, Ashley Batugo, Riccardo Bellazzi, Vincent Benoit, Clara-Lea Bonzel, William A. Bryant, Lorenzo Chiudinelli, Kelly Cho, Priyam Das, Tomás González González, David A. Hanauer, Darren W. Henderson, Yuk-Lam Ho, Ne Hooi Will Loh, Adeline Makoudjou, Simran Makwana, Alberto Malovini, Bertrand Moal, Danielle L. Mowery, Antoine Neuraz, Malarkodi Jebathilagam Samayamuthu, Fernando J. Sanz Vidorreta, Emily R. Schriver, Petra Schubert, Jeffery Talbert, Amelia L. M. Tan, Byorn W. L. Tan, Bryce W. Q. Tan, Valentina Tibollo, Patric Tippman, Guillaume Verdy, William Yuan, Paul Avillach, Nils Gehlenborg, Gilbert S. Omenn, The Consortium for Clinical Characterization of COVID-19 by EHR (4CE), Shyam Visweswaran, Tianxi Cai, Yuan Luo, Zongqi Xia

PLOS Digital Health: published July 22, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000957

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