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JMIR Publications recently published “Reducing Treatment Burden Among People With Chronic Conditions Using Machine Learning: Viewpoint” in JMIR Biomedical Engineering which reported that the COVID-19 pandemic has illuminated multiple challenges within the health care system and is unique to those living with chronic conditions. Recent advances in digital health technologies present opportunities to improve quality of care, self-management, and decision-making support to reduce treatment burden and the risk of chronic condition management burnout. There are limited available eHealth models that can adequately describe how this can be carried out. In this paper, the JMIR Biomedical Engineering authors define treatment burden and the related risk ofRead More →

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JMIR Publications recently published “Using Twitter to Examine Stigma Against People With Dementia During COVID-19: Infodemiology Study” in JMIR Aging which reported that during the pandemic, there has been significant social media attention focused on the increased COVID-19 risks and impacts for people with dementia and their care partners. This study used Twitter data to understand stigma against people with dementia propagated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on the JMIR Aging authors’ analysis, 4 main themes were identified: Ageism and devaluing the lives of people with dementia Misinformation and false beliefs about dementia and COVID-19 Dementia used as an insult for political ridicule, and ChallengingRead More →

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JMIR Publications recently published “Digital Teaching in Medical Education: Scientific Literature Landscape Review” in JMIR Medical Education which reported that digital teaching in medical education has grown in popularity in recent years. These JMIR Medical Education authors used a bibliometric approach to unveil and evaluate the scientific literature on digital teaching research in medical education, demonstrating recurring research topics, productive authors, research organizations, countries, and journals. The Web of Science electronic database was searched to identify relevant papers on digital teaching research in medical education. Dr. Eva Schaden from The Medical University of Vienna said, “Rapid advancements in information technology and worldwide internet access potentiallyRead More →

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JMIR Publications recently published “Nonfungible Tokens as a Blockchain Solution to Ethical Challenges for the Secondary Use of Biospecimens: Viewpoint” in JMIR Bioinformatics and Biotechnology in which the authors discuss how current practices of de-identifying human samples  for research is reminiscent of the treatment of Henrietta Lacks’s tissue in 1951. They highlight how current standards continue to release researchers and health systems from obligations to promote respect, beneficence, and justice for patients. This historical case illuminates ethical challenges for the secondary use of biospecimens, which persist in contemporary learning health systems. De-identification and broad consent seek to maximize the benefits of learning from care byRead More →

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JMIR Publications recently published “Establishing Institutional Scores With the Rigor and Transparency Index: Large-scale Analysis of Scientific Reporting Quality” in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), which reported that improving rigor and transparency measures should lead to improvements in reproducibility across the scientific literature, but assessing measures of transparency tends to be very difficult if performed manually by reviewers. The overall aim of this study is to establish a scientific reporting quality metric that can be used across institutions and countries, as well as to highlight the need for high-quality reporting to ensure replicability within biomedicine, making use of manuscripts from the Reproducibility Project:Read More →

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Source: Constant Therapy Health Copyright: Constant Therapy Health URL: https://constanttherapyhealth.com/science/ License: Licensed by the authors Constant Therapy Announces Publication of Study Demonstrating Improved Outcomes for Poststroke Patients Using Its Digital Speech, Language, and Cognitive Therapy Constant Therapy Partners With Leading Research Institutions to Discover New Clinical Insights in Brain Science With Real-world Data From Its Brain Rehabilitation Database   Lexington, MA – July 20, 2022 – Constant Therapy Health, a brain health digital therapeutics company, announced today the publication of a dosage study in the Journal of Medical Internet Research entitled, “Dosage Frequency Effects on Treatment Outcomes Following Self-managed Digital Therapy: Retrospective Cohort Study.” TheRead More →

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Source: The authors Copyright: The authors URL: https://games.jmir.org/2022/3/e37026/ License: CC-BY SHANGHAI, China – Playing online coloring games promotes people’s mental well-being and reduces anxiety in the time of COVID-19 according to a study conducted by a joint research team of multiple universities. The study demonstrates that game companies and researchers can work together to do more when facing global crises. The COVID-19 pandemic has threatened people’s physical health as well as their mental health. Distress, depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress syndrome, and insomnia are prevalent among people during the pandemic. Those negative psychological effects have even caused greater social harm than the virus itself and have spreadRead More →

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Source: The authors Copyright: The authors URL: https://rehab.jmir.org/2022/1/e31504/ License: CC-BY For more information or to interview spokespeople, please contact Genevieve Lazar, Communications Officer at FiMT on co@fim-trust.org or 07305 149150. London, United Kingdom, June 21, 2022:  A new smartphone app, which has been made available to the public today, has been found to be successful in helping UK veterans to reduce alcohol consumption. The 28-day brief alcohol intervention app was tested with more than 120 UK veterans as part of a trial funded by Forces in Mind Trust. After using the Drinks:Ration app, veterans consumed 28 fewer units of alcohol (approximately 9 pints of standard UK beer) overRead More →

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Source: Freepik Copyright: rawpixel.com URL: https://www.freepik.com/free-photo/nurse-looking-medical-supplies_18642322.htm License: Licensed by JMIR A recently published study (https://formative.jmir.org/2022/6/e35317/) suggests that health systems need a mixed integrative and collaborative redesign strategy to build a resilient supply chain while minimizing costs and complexity, and making it responsive enough. The research team at the Health Administration Research Consortium at the University of Colorado Denver studied the strategies used by major health systems around the United States to address current and future supply chain challenges. Their article titled “Integration vs Collaborative Redesign Strategies of Health Systems’ Supply Chains in the Post–COVID-19 New Normal: Cross-sectional Survey Across the United States” found that health systems decideRead More →

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Source: Freepik Copyright: Rawpixel.com URL: https://www.freepik.com/free-photo/covid-19-frontline-healthcare-essential-workers_13312501.htm#query=healthcare%20workers&position=15&from_view=search License: Licensed by JMIR DENVER, Colorado, May 6, 2022 — For US health systems, valuing diversity and inclusion (D&I) in the workforce is vital to serving the emerging needs of a diverse patient population. The much-aspired patient-centered care is feasible when the approach and focus are shifted to enable health systems to improve care quality and the patient experience of diverse patients. Published in the JMIR Formative Research, the study titled “Valuing Diversity and Inclusion in Health Care to Equip the Workforce: Survey Study and Pathway Analysis” [https://formative.jmir.org/2022/5/e34808] asks the following questions: Can the health care workforce leverage the educational pipeline to fulfillRead More →