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Researchers have used explainable AI to uncover factors that influence inpatients’ opinions when they’re completing satisfaction surveys following hospitalization.

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Bioengineers have developed a brain-computer interface that replicates the sense of touch, allowing a robotic arm and hand to not only receive command signals from the brain but also send back signals of stimulation.

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Natural language processing of social media posts is useful for identifying depression, anxiety and suicidal thinking, but models trained on population data cannot discern long-term patterns in any one person’s state of mind.

COVID-19 vaccines help reduce the serious coronavirus infections and hospitalizations. Multiple studies have shown that the risk from very rare vaccine side effects are far outweighed by the much greater risk of hospitalization and death due to COVID infections.

New data shows 60% of U.S. adults are vaccinated against COVID-19.

 

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Hospitalizations among children for COVID-19 are likely being overcounted, according to Stanford researchers.

Telecardiology saw a major boost during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many health systems now want to keep it as a permanent treatment option.

The American Medical Association has launched a new initiative aimed at re-envisioning virtual care and ensuring that healthcare stakeholders understand its full potential.

 

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The approval, made as part of a special FDA pilot program, took just 50 days.