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A recent trial showed that a short training course – which was made even shorter when it was concluded due to the encroachment of the COVID-19 outbreak – dramatically increased the confidence of four geriatricians in their ability to use the devices and interpret images they got from them.

In this era, when you don’t know how to do something, you look it up on the internet. It could be a home improvement project or figuring out your car tire’s optimal pressure: you find a how-to video, a bulleted list of instructions, or download a helpful app to figure it out.

A new study found that personal and psychological characteristics are strongly tied to people’s progress – or lack thereof – when they participate in programs designed to nudge them toward increased physical activity.

Patients who need surgery to fix major bone fractures use fewer opioid pills after their procedure if they’re reminded of their values – and those reminders don’t necessarily need to come from a doctor, according to a new study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.

Digital health apps and devices hold great promise in helping patients change their behaviors and make healthier choices, but there are several steps clinicians and health systems need to take in order to motivate change effectively, according to a new piece by a pair of Penn Medicine researchers.

To answer medical questions that can be applied to a wide patient population, machine learning models rely on large, diverse datasets from a variety of institutions. However, health systems and hospitals are often resistant to sharing patient data, due to legal, privacy, and cultural challenges.

While the technology for developing artificial intelligence-powered chatbots has existed for some time, a new viewpoint piece in JAMA lays out the clinical, ethical, and legal aspects that must be considered before applying them in healthcare.

For the work its done to integrate patient genomic data into electronic medical records in a way that’s usable for both researchers and clinicians, Penn Medicine was recognized by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) with this year’s Group on Information Resources (GIR) Excellence Award.